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A cura di Francesca Veneziano
Testi di Alessia Manoiero
Correzione bozze: Sara Berretta, Annalisa Damonte
Supervisione grafica: Alessandro Agostino
Voce narrante: Nicholas Brandon
Illustrazioni e copertina di: Lorenzo Calamano, Simone Cavazzoni, Lorenzo Lombardi
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CONTENTS
Exercises CHAPTER ONE p. 5
Exercises CHAPTER TWO p. 8
Exercises CHAPTER THREE - p. 11
Exercises CHAPTER FOUR p. 15
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Exercises - CHAPTER ONE
1.1 - Mark these sentences true or false
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1) When Watson went to visit Sherlock Holmes he found him alone.
2) Mister Wilson was a writer.
3) Mister Wilson was a workman before.
4) Mister Wilson had lived in Japan in the past.
5) Mister Wilson had a particular tattoo you can only find in China.
6) Vincent Spaulding was young and loved photography.
7) The Red-Headed League gives jobs only to people from London.
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1.2 - Match the following words to their definitions
a. Cellar 1. slim
b. Advertisement 2. any public notice in a newspaper, film on
television, announcement on radio to publicize an event, etc
c. Sleeve 3. a person who owns or manages a shop or
small store
d. Thin 4. emitting or reflecting light; shining
e. Bright 5. the part of a garment covering the arm
f. Shopkeeper 6. an underground room of a building,
usually used for storage
1.3 - Topic – Hobbies
Vincent Spaulding is interested in photography. Do you have any
hobbies? Write about your hobby. Here’s a list of questions that may
help you:
1) When did you start your hobby?
2) Why did you choose it?
3) Do you practice it with your friends?
4) Where do you practice your hobby?
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Exercises - CHAPTER TWO
2.1 - Before reading the text listen to the first part of the chapter
and fill in the gaps.
‘I decided to ask Spaulding to ___________ with me to the Red
Headed League’s offices’, said Mister Wilson. ‘So I closed the shop for
the day and we ___________ to Fleet Street. Spaulding was
___________ to have a holiday.’
‘Fleet Street was full of men with red hair, but few men had shining
red hair like mine. Spaulding ___________ through all the people and
we got to the office. There was little furniture – two uncomfortable
chairs, a kitchen ___________ and a book case. A small man with
shining red hair sat at the table and spoke to many men with red
hair. He said ‘no’ to all of them and then he ___________ to me. He
was friendly and closed the office door behind us.’
‘This is Mr Jabez Wilson’, said my ___________, ‘and he would like
the job in the League. ‘
‘His hair looks fine’, the man said, ‘but is it ___________? We must
be very careful!’
2.2 - Now check your answers in the text
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2.3 - Mark the following sentences true or false.
T F 1. Mr Wilson closed the shop for a day because he went on
holiday
2. Duncan Ross was the secretary of the League
3. Mister Wilson’s job at the League was writing the
Encyclopaedia Britannica beginning with the letter “A”
4. Vincent Spaulding was about thirty years old and had a
white mark under his left eye.
5. Pope’s Court looked like ‘a basket of oranges’ because
all the houses in that area were orange.
2.4 - Write a summary for chapter 2
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2.5 - Read the description below. What is the word for each one?
The first letter is already there.
1) something that is impossible to understand m_ _ _ _ _ _
2) the opposite of fat t _ _ _
3) a situation which is not safe d _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
4) something which isn’t clear c _ _ _ _ _ _ _
5) a person who breaks the law c _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Exercises - CHAPTER THREE
3.1 - Mark these sentences true or false
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1. Saxe Coburg Square is a very nice part of the City.
2. Inside the shop there was a sign with the name Jabez Wilson painted on it.
3. Watson and Holmes saw a bakery, a newspaper shop, a restaurant and a shop of the City and the Suburban
Bank.
4. Watson didn’t feel confused at all about the case.
3.2 - Listen to the first part of the chapter and fill in the gaps
‘Well, Watson, said Holmes when our ___________ left, ‘What do
you think of this unusual case?’
‘I don’t know.’ Then Holmes sat back in his ___________, closed his
eyes and started smoking his pipe.
Holmes seemed to be asleep. But then he ___________ jumped up
and put his pipe down on the table.
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‘There is a ___________ of classical music at St James’s Hall this
afternoon, let’s go.’
‘Yes, I’m free today’, replied Mr. Watson.
‘Good! Put on your hat and come. I ___________ to have some lunch
first.’
They went to Saxe Cobourg Square. It’s a very poor and ugly area of
the city.
There was some ___________ in the middle of the square and old
houses ___________ it. One of them had a shop window, a shop
door and a house door.
Outside the shop there was a sign with the name JABEZ WILSON
___________ in big white letters. This was Mister Wilson’s shop.
3.3 - Write the infinitive of the following verbs taken from the text.
Left ______________
Jumped up ______________
Had ______________
Painted ______________
Stopped ______________
Knocked ______________
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Walked ______________
Met ______________
3.4 - Match the following words taken from the text with the right
definition
a. Unusual 1. repulsive or very
unattractive
b. Ugly 2. to carry, to take
c. Square 3. a weapon with a metallic
tube or barrel
d. Bring 4. an open area in a town,
sometimes including the surrounding buildings
e. Gun 5. something uncommon
3.5 - Watson said that he felt confused. How would you feel if you
were him?
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Exercises - CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 - Match the following verbs or words with their meaning
a. To go through 1. A vacancy
b. Stick 2. Quickly, without any warning
c. Magnifying glass 3. Informed of current
developments
d. Cracks 4. To excavate
e. Thief 5. Consequently
f. Aware 6. To turn off
g. To switch off 7. A person who steals something
from another
h. To shoot 8. Stealing money from a bank
i. Hole 9. a convex lens used to produce
an enlarged image of an object
j. Bank robbery 10. a long piece of wood that helps
you walk
k. To dig 11. a break or fracture without
complete separation of the two parts
l. Suddenly 12. to move or to proceed
m. Therefore 13. to fire a weapon
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4.2 - Write the infinitive form of the following verbs in the past
taken from the test
1) Sang ______________
2) Went through ______________
3) Said ______________
4) Saw ______________
5) Switched off ______________
6) Climbed down ______________
7) Had ______________
8) Spent ______________
GRAMMAR BOX
The word handcuffs is the plural of the word handcuff. In English you
form the plural of a noun by adding -s or -es . You form the plural of a
word according to its end. Most words form their plural just by
adding -s at the end of the word.
For example:
Glass – Glasses
Dish – Dishes
Cat – Cats
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The words that end in –y form their plural in –ies:
Family – families
The words that end in –ey form their plural in –eys
Donkey – Donkeys
The words that end in –f/fe form their plural in –ves
Wife – wives
Leaf – leaves
Knife – knives
Some words have an irregular plural:
Woman – women
Man – men
Child – children
Tooth – teeth
Foot – Feet
Some words don’t change in the plural:
Sheep – Sheep
Fish – Fish
Deer – deer
Some words are only plural:
Scissors: a pair of scissors
Trousers: a pair of trousers
Shorts: a pair of shorts
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4.3 - Write the plural form of the following words taken from the
text:
Journey __________
Street __________
Door __________
Box __________
Thief __________
Glass __________
Hand __________
Face __________
Gun __________
Bank __________
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE BIOGRAPHY
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1859. He came
from a wealthy catholic Irish family who had an important position in
the world of Art. When he was 22 he married Mary Foley. She loved
books and was a master story teller. His father was a chronic
alcoholic and that’s why his family started to have some money
problems.
When he turned 19 the wealthy members of his family offered to pay
for his studies and so he moved to England in order to study in a
Jesuit Boarding School. Arthur absolutely hated the bigotry
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surrounding his studies and rebelled at corporal punishment, which
was very common and brutal in most English schools at that time.
Conan Doyle was very close to his mother. His only moments of
happiness during the years he spent in England were when he wrote
to his mother and when he practiced sport, especially cricket.
During those years in England, Arthur realized that he had a talent at
storytelling. Once he said: ‘Perhaps it was good for me that the times
were hard, for I was wild, full blooded and a trifle reckless. But the
situation called for energy and application so that one was bound to
try to meet it. My mother had been so splendid that I could not fail
her.’
Anyway he decided to study medicine and during his studies he met
many of the future authors who were also attending the university,
such as for example James Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Anyway, the man who most impressed and influenced him, was one
of his teachers, Dr. Joseph Bell. The good doctor was a master at
observation, logic, deduction, and diagnosis. All these qualities were
later to be found in the persona of the celebrated detective Sherlock
Holmes.
He became a doctor in 1882 and he opened his first practice. Since he
didn’t have many patients, he started writing his first Sherlock
Holmes story: A study in Scarlett. It was a great success and so the
magazine The Strand asked him to write 6 Sherlock Holmes stories.
The Sherlock Holmes stories became very popular in Britain.
Conan Doyle became tired of Sherlock and he wanted to concentrate
more on historical novels and so in 1893 he wrote a story called “The
final problem” and killed Holmes. His readers were very disappointed
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and so he wrote another story called: The hounds of Baskervilles. He
then continued to write Sherlock’s stories until 1927.
He died in England on 7 July 1930.
4.4 - Mark these sentences true or false
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1. Conan Doyle was born in Dublin.
2. His father was an alcoholic.
3. He studied English literature at University.
4. He wrote ‘The last problem’ in 1893.
5. He died in 1930.
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