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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Boscombe
Valley Mystery
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About the author CHAPTER ONE

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1 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 1B
22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. 2D
2 Conan Doyle studied medicine at 3D
university. 4A
3 Dr Joseph Bell was a careful 5C
observer of details and he became his Page 15 – exercise 2A
model for Sherlock Holmes.
1 farm
4 He started writing because he didn’t
2 time
have many patients, and his first story
3 watch
was A Study in Scarlet.
4 hat
5 The readers of The Strand got angry
5 neighbour
because Conan Doyle stopped writing
6 American
Sherlock Holmes stories.
6 In 1901 Conan Doyle decided to write Page 15 – exercise 2B
other Sherlock Holmes stories. S C O W A T C H T H F R I T
F N A S O M A K Y T I M E L
How did Sherlock Holmes
O O E R R C E A M E A O I L
and Dr Watson become
H X P I P S S R A F A R M D
friends?
L A O B G E F I I K A B Y O
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I R T B R H N I D C V E T B
1T S C L E P F B T M B A A P Y
2T
H K Y M V I O O E O L N D O
3T
4 F – Sherlock Holmes prefers A W R D O W U O U R L I S Z
difficult cases. S A A F I E L D R R P U H S
5T
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1 hat 1 old enough
2 American 2 more than
3 farm 3 liked
4 time 4 took
5 neighbour 5 did not live
6 watch 6 live far
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1 while 1B
2 after 2C
3 before 3C
4 until 4B
5 when Page 24 – exercise 4
6 as soon as
1 death
2 influenced
CHAPTER TWO 3 nation
4 wealth
Before you read 5 achievements
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7 electricity
1B
8 market
2A
9 class
3B
10 education
4B
11 organized
5A
12 majority
6B
13 free
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1 Patience Moran said that young
McCarthy was very excited and didn’t
CHAPTER THREE
have a gun, and his right hand was Before you read
covered with blood.
2 Detective Lestrade asked Holmes Page 25 – exercise 1
for help because he was quite 1B
confused with the case. 2C
3 James McCarthy said that he was 3A
sorry, but that he was expecting this. 4B
4 He went to Bristol. 5A
5 He wanted to go hunting for birds in Page 25 – exercise 2
the woods.
6 He ran back to the pool when he Open answers.
heard a horrible scream.
7 He found his father on the ground
with wounds on his head.

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Page 31 – exercise 1 7 hungry

1D 8 thirst
2B 9 beautiful
3C 10 sadness
4B
5D Australia
6D Page 38 – exercise 1
7C 1 ‘Land Down Under’
8A 2 The Outback is a desert which
9B covers most of Australia.
10 D 3 Captain James Cook was a great
11 C English explorer who explored the
Page 32 – exercise 2 south-eastern coast of Australia and
1 B – Have you been to London yet? made maps.
2 D – Have you written a letter to 4 In the late 1700s and early 1800s
John yet? Australia was a penal colony.
3 C – Has she found the cat yet? 5 The Australian gold rush took place
4 A – Have they finished eating yet? in Victoria, New South Wales, in 1851.
5 F – Has he talked to James yet? 6 Thousands of people went to
6 E – Has mother started cooking Australia to look for gold and
dinner yet? remained there.
7 The Aborigines were the native
Page 32 – exercise 3 people of Australia who came from
Open answers. Southeast Asia using small wooden
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8 National parks protect animals,
A innocent
nature and biodiversity.
B quarrel
C pool Page 38 – exercise 2
D wound Open answers.
E trial
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CHAPTER FOUR
1 pool
2 wound Page 44 – exercise 1
3 quarrel 1A
4 trial 2C
5 innocent 3B
4A
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5D
1 happy
2 interest Page 45 – exercise Culture Spot
3 sleepy 1 city
4 health 2 criminals
5 angry 3 dangerous
6 friend 4 night

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5 modern 7 footprints
6 uniforms 8 magnifying glass
7 name 9 suspect
8 stop 10 fingerprints
9 people 11 solve
10 understand 12 trial
11 model Page 54 – exercises 3-4
12 world
Open answers.
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1 the first time
2 better detective than CHAPTER SIX
3 lent some money
Before you read
4 big enough
5 so worried that Page 55 – exercise 1
6 few 1 F – John Turner was sick, old man.
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3T
Open answers.
4 F – Holmes asked Turner to tell him
the true story.
CHAPTER FIVE 5 F – John Turner decided to tell the
truth
Before you read 6T
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1A 1 John Turner was a sick old man with
2B a big grey beard and thick grey hair.
3C 2 Watson noticed that Turner had a
4B light blue colour of the skin around the
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3 Turner had received a letter from
Open answers. Holmes, through Mr Moran.
Page 53 – exercise 1 4 He didn’t want Alice to find out the
1B terrible truth.
2D 5 Holmes was working for Alice
3C Turner.
4A 6 Turner had diabetes, a very serious
5C illness.
7 Holmes asked Turner to tell him the
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1 clues and give it to the police only to save
2 detective James McCarthy; otherwise he would
3 solve never show the paper to anyone.
4 murderer 8 According to Turner, Charles
5 investigation McCarthy was a bad, greedy man.
6 fingerprints 9 John Turner was Black Jack of Ballarat.

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10 The Ballarat Boys were robbers and
they stole gold from the mines and did
other terrible things.
11 Turner became a rich man because
he returned to England with all the
gold he stole from the mines.
12 He decided to live a good life and
got married. He bought a big house
and the land at Boscombe.
13 He met Charles McCarthy by
chance in London.
14 Charles McCarty told Turner that
he must look after him and his son,
otherwise he would tell the police the
truth about Turner’s past.
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Open answers. Suggestions:
1 He is a private detective and is a
very clever man. He works with Dr
Watson and likes difficult cases.
2 He is Holmes’s friend and assistant.
He admires Holmes’s forensic
methods.
3 He works for Scotland Yard but he is
not a good detective. He isn’t very
clever and usually disagrees with
Holmes.
4 She is beautiful young woman who
is in love with James McCarthy. She is
certain that James is innocent and
wants Holmes to solve the case.
5 He is a sick old man who looks rather
terrible because of his illness. He is a
big man.
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1B 2E 3D 4A 5F 6C 7G
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1B 2C 3A 4C 5B
Listening
Good morning and welcome to the tour
of London! My name is Justin Brown and
I’m your tour guide today. As you all
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know, London is the capital of the
United Kingdom. About 6 million people
live here. London is a very green city
with more than 300 beautiful parks for
people to enjoy all year long. Hyde Park
is a huge park with more than 4,000
trees. You can ride a boat on the
Serpentine Lake or you can ride a
bicycle around the park. Kensington
Gardens are another wonderful place to
relax and enjoy nature.
Now let’s go to Westminster. Next to the
Houses of Parliament, which are on the
River Thames, you can see a big clock at
the top of a tall tower – it’s Big Ben! It’s
a well-known symbol of London. It’s the
largest four-faced clock in the world!
Some people think that Big Ben is the
name of the clock on the tower, but it’s
not! Big Ben is the name of the big 13-
ton bell that rings every quarter of an
hour.
Trafalgar Square is often called the
heart of London because it connects the
political area of Westminster to the rest
of West London. Lord Nelson’s column
stands in the centre of this splendid
square. He won the sea battle at
Trafalgar against the French and
Spanish in 1805 and he is a British hero.
Now let’s board a boat and travel on the
River Thames. There’s lots to see! Look
at beautiful Tower Bridge, which is near
the Tower of London. When tall ships
need to pass, the bridge opens up. Now
it’s time to visit the Tower of London,
the oldest building in London. It was
built by William the Conqueror in 1078
and has a very interesting history. This
is where you can see the Queen’s
splendid crown jewels.
London also has many excellent
museums, theatres, concert halls and
shops. There’s always something
interesting to do in London!
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Sherlock Holmes’s Down

1 pool
deduction techniques 2 fingerprint
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1 The forensic methods uses 4 doctor
biochemistry, DNA testing, fingerprint 7 trial
analysis, laser and 3D photography. 8 furious
2 He had a chemistry laboratory at Page 73 – exercise 3
home.
Open answers.
3 He used a microscope to examine
samples of human hair, cloth, paper,
leaves and other things.
The detective story
4 Scotland Yard started using Page 75 – exercise 1
fingerprints to solve cases in 1901. 1T
5 He could discover if a person was a 2 F – Edgar Allen Poe was the author
man or a woman, the persons’ age and of ‘The Purloined Letter’.
his or her physical condition. 3T
6 The magnifying glass was important 4T
for discovering very small details. 5 F – He is a character from
7 Open answer. Stevenson’s horror story.

After Reading
CHAPTER SEVEN
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1F 2E 3D 4G 5I 6A 7H 8C
1B 2A 3D 4C 5B 9A
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Across 1B 2G 3A 4B 5F 6C 7H 8E
5 London 9 B 10 I 11 D 12 G 13 B 14 G 15 E
6 wound 16 B
7 footprint
10 quarrel
11 clue

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1A 2B 3B 4A 5A 6B 7A 8A 1D 2F 3A 4B 5H 6C 7E 8G
9 B 10 B 11 A 12 B 13 A 14 B 15 A
16 A

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1 Read the sentences below and decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect.
If it is correct, mark A. If it is not correct, mark B. Correct the incorrect
sentences.
A B
1 Watson received a telegram from Sherlock Holmes during
breakfast.
2 Watson’s wife didn’t encourage him to go.
3 Sherlock Holmes asked Watson to take the first train and meet
him at Ross.
4 Sherlock Holmes had to investigate the murder of Charles
McCarthy.
5 Watson and Detective Lestrade were convinced that Charles
McCarthy’s son was guilty.
6 James McCarthy spent three days in Bristol with Miss Turner.
7 When James McCarthy heard a terrible scream, he ran to the
Moran home for help.
8 Charles McCarthy wanted his son to marry Miss Turner.
9 Lestrade worked at Scotland Yard and was an excellent detective.
10 Sherlock Holmes didn’t think the word ‘rat’ was an important clue.
11 Sherlock Holmes told Lestrade that the murderer was a tall,
left-handed man who smoked cigars.
12 John Turner met Sherlock Holmes and Watson at his home
because he was very ill.
13 John Turner became a rich man in Australia many years before.
14 John Turner helped Charles McCarthy because they were both
part of the Ballarat Boys.
15 The murderer was John Turner and he signed a paper with all
the facts.
16 At the trial James McCarthy was innocent, and he and Alice
planned to get married.

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2 Match the sentence with the person who said it.

1 ‘Oh, your assistant, Anstruther, can do the work for you.’

2 ‘This case seems to be very clear, and that’s why I think it will be
difficult.’
3 ‘Who was the old woman? Do you know her name?’
4 ‘Did you see anything unusual when you went back to find your dying
father?’
5 ‘I was in Bristol for three days on business.’
6 ‘I know James well and he’s a kind, gentle young man – he’s innocent!’
7 ‘Mr Holmes, I’m here to study the facts.’
8 ‘I didn’t want young James McCarthy to get hurt.’

A Watson
B policeman
C Miss Turner
D Watson’s wife
E Detective Lestrade
F Sherlock Holmes
G John Turner
H James McCarthy

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