AN INTRODUCTION TO SHERLOCK HOLMES

I Listen and fill in the blanks to get the essential of Sherlock

Holmes‘s biography:

A famous___________________________
Sherlock Holmes was born about________________________ago,
during_________________________________________reign. His spent
his childhood in_________________________, with his parents and his
older brother___________________________. He _______________________at London
university and then became a_________________________________________.he moved to
__________________________________________.Later his deductions and_______________________
Became legendary._____________________________wrote that his friend Holmes
smoked the_______________, used ______________________, played the violin and did
chemical_____________________________in his flat. Nobody knows when he___________.
All of this is_______________________________of course: Sherlock Holmes
never_____________________________and ____________only the hero
in__________________stories written by_____________________________________________________.
But the museum at 221b Baker street exists ( it opened about___________________
Years ago) and thousands of__________________________visit it every year.

II Répérer les éléments présents dans une biographie :

1.Cross out the biographical elements which are not mentioned in the text above :
Name – date of birth – parents’ names – childhood – studies – job- address – friend – enemy-
hobbies – travels – death.
III Lire et comprendre la biographie d’une personne célèbre :

2. Circle the correct phrase ( more than one can be correct) :

a) Sherlock holmes was famous for :
□ His intelligence □ his musical talent □ his museum
b) Doctor Watson wrote about:
□ Sherlock Holmes □ was Holmes Friend □ never existed
c) Sherlock Holmes was born approximately in :
□ 1800 □ 1850 □ 1999
d) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle :
□ opened the museum □ was a writer □ was a consulting detective
e) 221b Baker Street was Sherlock Holmes’s :

□ house □ bakery □ place of birth

III Situer une action dans le temps en utilisant ago:
a) Sherlock Holmes was born 160 years ago.
b) How long ago did they arrive in London?
1. Qu’introduit ago ?:
Le temps qui s’est écoulé depuis l’évènement? / une date précise/ le temps qu’a duré l’évènement ?
2. Où se place t-il par rapport à la précision de temps ?
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Pour faire une question concernant le temps écoulé on utilise------------------------------------------------

IV Savoir placer les accents toniques dans un groupe circonstanciel

contenant ago :
1. Listen and answer the questions :
a) Twenty days ago
b) Seven centuries ago
c) A long time ago
Ago est –il toujours ou jamais accentué ?------------------------------sur quelle syllabe ?---------------------

Au c)parmi les mots qui précèdent ago, quel est le seul qui ne porte pas d’accent ?

---------------------------------pourquoi ?-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

PRACTISE
1) Voici des évènements datés. Reformulez les dates en calculant le temps écoulé et en utilisant ago.
EX : Horace Jones finished Tower bridge in 1894, that is ( = c’est à dire) 116 years ago.

a) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the first Sherlock Holmes book in 1887, that is__________________.
b) ) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived in the 19th century that is_____________________________.
c) The museum closed one week in October, that is__________________________________.
Extra work

To be a sucessful
Sherlock Holmes...

A ___________-is a A _____________ – to
vine grown for its ruminate and discuss
fruit, which can your ideas around.
either be harvested
young and used as
a vegetable or A _________________ - is
harvested mature, a type of hat that is
dried, and used as typically worn in rural
a bottle, utensil, or areas, often for hunting.
pipe.

A _____________
– for investigating A faithful sidekick – such
clues. as Dr Watson.

Put these words in the right place :

A deerstalker cap – a calabash pipe – a fireplace – a magnifying glass.