The Sign of Four

Chapters 1-3
 GLOSSARY
 Wound [wuːnd] (n)  Prison (n)
 To heal (v)  To be in charge (v)
 Fever (n)  Pearl (n)
 To solve (v)  To deceive (v)
 Criminal (n)  Valuable (adj)
 Empty (adj)  Puzzled (adj)
 Impatiently (adv)  Pale (adj)
 Tray (n)  Cab (n)
 To rub (v)  Magnifying glass (n)
 Excitedly [ɪkˈsɑɪtɪdli] (adv)  To examine [ɪɡˈzæmɪn] (v)
 To lean – leant (irr v)  Hooves (pl.n)
 To advertise (v)  Immediately [ɪˈmiːdiət.li] (adv)
 To disappear (v)
 IDENTIFY
 In the past, a vehicle pulled by a horse, used as a taxi – Cab
 Being the person who has control of or is responsible
for someone or something – To be in charge
 To keep the truth hidden from someone for your own
advantage – To deceive
 Used to describe a person's face or skin if it has less
colour than usual, for example when the person is or ill Pale
or frightened, or if it has less colour than people
generally have – To lean
 To set so as to be resting or supported –
 To look at or consider a person or thing carefully and To examine
in detail in order to discover something about them -
 IDENTIFY
Hooves Magnifying glass

Prison
Pearl
 IDENTIFYExcitedly
 Being in a state of excitement –
 To make something known generally or in
public, especially in order to sell it - To advertise
 To press or be pressed against something with
a circular or up-and-down repeated movement To rub
–
 If people or things disappear, they go To disappear
somewhere where they cannot be seen or
found –
Valuable
 Worth a lot of money –
 Now or without waiting or thinking – Immediately
 Confused because you do not understand Puzzled
something -
 IDENTIFY
Criminal Tray

Fever Wound
WHO ARE THEY?
 PUT THE SENTENCES IN THE CORRECT ORDER:
-a) I hoped that we would help her
- b) Suddenly a small dark man appeared.
- c) She was young and not very tall, with blonde hair and blue eyes. Her clothes were
not fashionable, but they were clean and tidy.
- d) We passed through so many streets that I was very soon lost.
1- e) One afternoon, I was reading a book and Holmes was standing by the window in
our sitting room.
- f ) She opened a flat box and showed us six beautiful pearls.
-g) He took a magnifying glass of his pocket and examined the paper.
- h) Miss Morstan began her story and we listened.
- i) “My master is waiting for you” – said the servant.
- j) We got into cab and were soon on the way to the Lyceum Theatre.
 PUT THE SENTENCES IN THE CORRECT ORDER:
1- e. One afternoon, I was reading a book and Holmes was standing by the window in
our sitting room.
2 - c. She was young and not very tall, with blonde hair and blue eyes. Her clothes
were not fashionable, but they were clean and tidy.
3 - h. Miss Morstan began her story and we listened.
4 - f. She opened a flat box and showed us six beautiful pearls.
5 - a. I hoped that we would help her.
6 - j. We got into cab and were soon on the way to the Lyceum Theatre.
7 - g. He took a magnifying glass of his pocket and examined the paper.
8 - b. Suddenly a small dark man appeared.
9 - d. We passed through so many streets that I was very soon lost.
10 - i. “My master is waiting for you” – said the servant.
 ANSWER THE QUESTIONS:
1) Who are Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson?
2) Who is Miss Morstan and why did she come to Sherlock?
3) What is common between Captain Morstan, Major Sholto
and Andaman Islands?
4) Miss Morstan received a letter and showed it to Sherlock and
Watson. What was in it? What did they decide to do?
5) What did Miss Morstan find in her father’s luggage?
6) What happened at the Lyceum Theatre?
 RIDDLE!
The husband and his wife went on holiday. A week later,
the husband returned with news that his wife was killed
in an accident. Everyone believes him, but there is one
person in the city who, having learned about this, can say
with certainty that the murderer is a husband and that
the murder was planned. Who is this person?
This person is a ticket seller. The husband bought his
wife a single ticket, and to himself – a return ticket.