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A Scandal in Bohemia b Soon after 10 o’clock Homes went to Coburg 1 Answer these questions. Square with Scotland Yard Inspectors because a Why does Dr Watson visit Holmes? he knew …………………………………… . b Why does the King of Bohemia visit Holmes? c Holmes realised that Spaulding was actually c What does Holmes find out about Irene Adler John Clay ………………………………….. . when he dresses as a driver? d Holmes caught John Clay, but his partner was d What does Holmes want Watson to do at able to run away. Holmes was not worried Briony Lodge? because ……………………………………. . e How is Holmes dressed when he goes to e Holmes discovered that John Clay spent most Briony Lodge? of his time at Mr Wilson’s shop underground 2 Write down five things that tell Holmes that ……………………………………………. . his visitor is the King of Bohemia. 8 Who thought this and when? 3 What happened first? Put these sentences in a ‘It is a lot of money for a simple job. I’ll take order. it!’ a c There is a fight. b ‘This is one of the strangest and craziest b c People carry Holmes into Irene’s house. stories I’ve ever listened to!’ c c Irene Adler’s carriage arrives. c ‘Thirty and a white mark … Why do I feel d c Holmes finds out where the photo is. I know the man?’ e c Holmes, who is dressed as a priest, goes to d ‘Who are these two? What do they want?’ help Irene. 9 Write right (3) or wrong (7). f c Watson throws the smoke bomb and a Inspector Merryweather had nothing to shouts ‘Fire!’ do on his Saturday night. c 4 Write down what you think about Irene. b Homes took all the men to Coburg Is it a surprise to you that the only person ever to Square because he did not know where beat Holmes is a woman? Why/why not? the crime would happen. c The Red-Headed League c Holmes took his gun with him to Coburg Square. c 5 What are the names of these people? d Watson and Holmes were able to catch a He works for Mr Wilson. John Clay. c b He started the Red-Headed League. c He has a shop in Coburg Square. The Boscombe Lake Mystery d He asks Mr Wilson to copy the dictionary. 10 Answer these questions. 6 Choose the right words. a Why do the police think that Charles a Mr Wilson and Mr Holmes were surprised / McCarthy’s son killed him? worried that Mr Spaulding spent such a long b Does James McCarthy say that he killed his time in the underground room. father? b Mr Ross told Mr Wilson that he had to copy c What did James see about 30 feet from his a dictionary / a book. father’s body? c After Mr Wilson told his story to Homes and d Why did James have a fight with his father? Watson, they both laughed / were surprised. e What good news does James hear from his d Watson and Holmes went to the concert in a ‘wife’? carriage / on foot. 11 How does Holmes know that …: 7 Finish the sentences. a the stone was used to kill Mr McCarthy? a After the concert, Holmes tells Watson that b the man who killed McCarthy uses his left they should meet at Baker Street at ten and hand? that he should bring a ………………… c the man who killed McCarthy has a bad right because ……………………………………. . leg? d the man who killed McCarthy is tall?
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12 Write right (3) or wrong (7). b Horner was known to the police because a Turner did not want his daughter to ……………………………………………. . marry McCarthy’s son. c c When Watson and Holmes caught the little b McCarthy wanted to meet Turner in the man ………………………………………. . forest. c The Single Man c McCarthy and his son were planning to 16 Find five mistakes and correct them: kill Turner. c Robert Simon is the son of the Duke of Windsor. d Young McCarthy saw Turner kill his He is forty-two years old and plans to marry father. c Hatty, the second daughter of a rich Australian. e Young McCarthy will stay in jail. c On the day before the wedding, Hatty jumps in 13 Finish the sentences. the lake. a Young McCarthy thought that he could not 17 Write right (3) or wrong (7) or does not marry Miss Tuner because he was ………… . say (?) b The last two things that McCarthy said were a After the wedding, Lord Simon will have ……………………………………………. . a lot of money and Hatty Doran will get c Turner was a tall man who walked slowly a title. c because …………………………………… . b Lord Simon was worried because he d Turner told Holmes that he was very ill and thought someone killed his wife. c that ………………………………………… . c Lord Simon told Holmes and Watson e Holmes promised Turner that if …………… . that all the stories in the newspapers were The Blue Diamond false. c 14 Match a–g and 1–7 to make sentences. d Holmes knew Hatty Doran was not in a Peterson was walking along Goodge Street the lake because he found her wedding ….. dress on a bag inside the lake. c b A chicken and a hat ….. e Hatty Doran said that when she wanted c Peterson looks like a policeman ….. to marry Frank, her father refused so they d Peterson is very excited ….. married in secret. c e The police think Horner stole the diamond The Copper Beeches ….. 18 Who says this? Who to? Why? f Holmes knows that Henry Baker did not steal a ‘I don’t like short hair.’ the diamond ….. b ‘We shall see her again very soon.’ g Holmes makes Mr Breckenridge angry ….. c ‘Will you go and put it on?’ 1) because he once stole money from a hotel d ‘There’s a man on the road looking at Miss room. Hunter.’ 2) when he saw two men attack a tall man. 19 Answer these questions. 3) so that he tells him where he bought his a Why does Mr Rucastle say to Miss Hunter, ‘If chickens. you do, I’ll throw you to the dog.’? 4) because he finds a diamond in the b When Mr and Mrs Rucastle and Mr Toller are chicken. out, Holmes, Watson and Miss Hunter go 5) because he only wants to eat the chicken. into the upstairs room. What do they see? 6) because he is dressed as a hotel doorman. c How does Watson save Mr Rucastle? 7) were left on the ground. d Why doesn’t Alice Rucastle’s father want her 15 Finish the sentences. to marry Mr Fowler? a The famous blue diamond was stolen from …………………… at the …………………… .
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A Scandal in Bohemia d Mr McCarthy’s son heard his father crying out 1 There are mistakes in these sentences. Write the ‘Cooee’ / ‘Help’ so he ran towards him. correct information. e When young McCarthy found his father by the a When Sherlock Holmes sees the King of Bohemia lake it was clear he was terribly angry / badly hurt. for the first time, he is surprised by his hat. f When Holmes and Watson arrived in the town of b Irene Adler was a famous dancer. Ross, they were driven in a carriage / took a train. c The King needs Irene Adler to give him back the The Blue Diamond ring he gave her. 5 Write right (3) or wrong (7). d Irene Adler never stops loving the King. a The men attacking Mr Baker thought that e Finally Irene decides to give the photograph back to Peterson was a policeman. c the King. b Sherlock Holmes knew about the blue diamond The Red-Headed League because Inspector Lestrade told him. c 2 Write right (3), wrong (7) or it does not say (?) c Sherlock Holmes thought that Baker had a There were very few men at Fleet Street who stolen the diamond. c wanted to work for the Red-Headed League. c d Baker told Holmes that he bought the chicken b When Mr Wilson decided to start working for from a hotel owner. c the Red-Headed League, he needed someone to e Beckenridge told Holmes that he still had some look after his shop. c chicken. c c Mr Ross came to see Mr Wilson every day to f When Holmes showed the diamond to Ryder check on his work during the first two months. c the little man practically fell to the floor. c d After the league closed, Mr Wilson tried to find The Single Man c were Mr Ross was but he could never find him. 6 Write right (3) or wrong (7). e Wilson chose Mr Spaulding as his assistant a Lord Simon thought that Flora was going c because he was the best. to hurt his wife. c 3 Choose the right sentence. b Hatty Doran saw her real husband at the a Holmes asked Wilson about Spaulding’s work and church and decided to run away. c he found that ….. c Miss Doran’s father became rich after he stole 1) he spent long hours in the underground. gold. c 2) he was a hard worker. d Hatty Doran thought that Frank was dead. c b When Holmes first visited Wilson’s shop ….. e Frank found that Hatty was getting married 1) he felt strange. when he was reading the newspaper. c 2) he hit the ground with his stick. f Lord Simon was kind to Hatty Doran after c When Holmes, Watson and the Inspectors went she told him everything about Frank. c into the underground of the City Bank ….. 1) they found piles of big boxes. The Copper Beeches 2) they found two criminals. 7 What happened first? Number these sentences 1–5. d Mr Merryweather explained to the men that ….. a Violet Hunter lost her job as a teacher and was 1) the City Bank bought thirty thousand gold offered a lot of money for a new one. c pieces. b The job at the Copper Beeches consisted of 2) the City Bank had a lot of money. teaching, wearing a blue dress, and sitting by the window and cutting her hair short. c The Boscombe Lake Mystery c Miss Hunter realises that there is someone 4 What are the right words? living in a locked room of the house. c a Mr Turner and Mr McCarthy seemed to be very d Mr Rucastle promised to pay more money good neighbours / friends. and Miss Hunter finally accepted. c b Mr McCarthy’s son was seen by the lake together e Miss Hunter refused to cut her hair short so she with his father and he had a gun / knife under his arm. decided not to take the job. c c Patience saw that Mr McCarthy was shouting at his son and she thought that the son was going to shout at him / hit him.
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A Scandal in Bohemia Book key 9 Open answers 10 a 8 b 5 c 7 d 2 e 9 f 3 g 1 h 4 i 6 1 Bohemia was in the area of the present-day Czech 11 a To catch the bank robbers. Republic. b Dr Watson, Inspector Lestrade and Mr 2 Open answers Merryweather 3 a inspector, lawyer, priest c John Clay and Duncan Ross b count, duke, lord d No. Sherlock Holmes stops the crime. c diamond, ring 12 a Vincent Spaulding spends a lot of time in the d bomb, scandal / Open answers underground room of Mr Wilson’s shop. 4 a Sherlock Holmes Spaulding shows Mr Wilson the notice about the b the King of Bohemia Red-Headed League. c Irene Adler The Red-Headed League pays its men very well. d the daughter of the King of Scandinavia Mr Wilson gets a place in the League because his e Irene Adler hair is very bright red. f Godfrey Norton The League gives Mr Wilson the strange job of g Sherlock Holmes copying a dictionary. h Dr Watson The League closes suddenly. i Sherlock Holmes Nobody in the building knows about the League or 5 a Irene Adler about Duncan Ross. b Irene Adler and the King of Bohemia together Vincent Spaulding works for half the usual pay. c The King of Scandinavia is afraid of any scandal. The City Bank is behind Mr Wilson’s shop. There He will stop the King of Bohemia’s marriage to his are 30,000 gold pieces in boxes in an underground daughter if he sees the photograph. room there. d No. Irene Adler leaves the country and takes the Spaulding is alone in Mr Wilson’s shop every photograph with her. While she has it, the King of morning. Bohemia will not hurt her. Holmes hits the ground near the shop. Then he 6 a Holmes dresses as a driver to watch Irene Adler’s knows there is a hole under it. house. He talks to another driver about Irene Holmes sees earth on Spaulding’s trousers. Adler and learns a lot about her. Then he follows Spaulding’s real name is John Clay. Holmes knows her carriage and is the witness at her marriage to that he is a famous thief. Godfrey Norton. b The Red-Haired League was a strange idea. It didn’t b Holmes dresses as a priest to get into Irene Adler’s seem real. Mr Wilson’s job of copying a dictionary house after a street fight. He learns where Irene was also strange. keeps the photograph. They closed the League suddenly and before they 7 Irene Adler beat Sherlock Holmes because she took finished their job at the City Bank. the photograph of her and the King of Bohemia with People saw Spaulding with earth on the knees of his her. Holmes could not give the photograph to the trousers. King. She beat Holmes because she followed him, as 13 Open answers the old priest, to Baker Street. She learned who he 14 a 3 b ? c 7 d 3 e ? f 3 g 7 h 3 really was. i 3 j 7 k 7 l ? 8 a Irene Adler: I am happy because I have a good 15 a He was a criminal in Australia, and he gets very husband. He is a better man than the King of rich. He murders Charles McCarthy. He is Alice’s Bohemia. I also have the photograph so the King father. cannot hurt me. b He is the dead man. He hates John Turner. He b the King of Bohemia: I am happy because I married doesn’t want his son, James, to marry Alice Turner. the King of Scandinavia’s daughter. Nobody will c He is Charles McCarthy’s son. The police think ever see the photograph because Irene Adler has it. that he killed his father. She promised to keep it secret.
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d She is John Turner’s daughter. She loves James f St George’s Church McCarthy and asks Sherlock Holmes to help him. g a white dress, a pair of white shoes and some e James McCarthy thinks that he married her. But flowers she was already married. h the country/England 16 a Sherlock Holmes sees the marks of these shoes near 25–26 Open answers the murder. 27 a poor, no job b This is used to kill Charles McCarthy. b a lot of money, his son c It belongs to the murderer. James sees it, but it c short, blue disappears after the murder. d dangerous d This is part of Charles McCarthy’s last word: e second, isn’t, is Ballarat. It ties John Turner to the murder. f window, funny e Charles McCarthy often shouts this at an Australian g small, grey or at his son. h a dangerous dog 17 He probably makes it because John Turner is going to i similar to, locked, a frightening noise die soon. j Alice Rucastle 18 Open answers k Mr Rucastle 19 a hotel doorman l Mr Fowler, Australia b hotel worker/repairman 28 a Before: She was a teacher for five years for Mr c hotel waiter Munro’s children. It was difficult for her to find a d unemployed new job. She was poor and hungry. e hotel owner During: She works for Mr Rucastle and discovers f market seller many strange things at Copper Beeches. g farmers (they keep and sell chickens) After: She becomes a well-loved teacher in London. h works for Lady Morcar b Before: He had a first wife and a daughter, called 20 Lady Morcar has the blue diamond with her at the Alice. He didn’t want Alice to marry Mr Fowler. He Cosmopolitan Hotel. James Ryder steals the diamond didn’t want to give her the money from her mother. and puts it in a chicken at the farm of his sister (Mrs He wanted to keep it. He locked her in a room at Oakshott). Then he takes the wrong chicken when the top of Copper Beeches. he leaves the farm. The chicken with the diamond is During: He gives Miss Hunter a job. She has to sold to Mr Breckenridge at Covent Garden market. teach his son and has to cut her hair. He tells her He sells it and about twenty more to Mr Windigate at funny stories when she sits near a window in a blue the Alpha Hotel. Henry Baker buys the chicken from dress. Carlo, the dog, almost kills him. Mr Windigate. Then Henry Baker is attacked at three After: He is never very well. o’clock in the morning. He runs away and Peterson c Before: no information gets his hat and chicken. Mr and Mrs Peterson eat the During: She is not ill, but she is sad. She gives Miss chicken and find the diamond. Peterson takes it to Hunter a blue dress to wear. Sherlock Holmes. Holmes returns it to Lady Morcar. After: No information 21–22 Open answers d Before: Her mother died. She wanted to marry Mr 23 a LS b HD c LS d HD e LS f LS Fowler but her father said no. She was locked in a g LS h HD i HD j LS k HD l HD room in Copper Beeches. She became ill. Her father m HD n LS and his wife cut her hair. 24 a the Duke of Balmoral During: Miss Hunter hears her in the room b a rich Californian/Mr Aloysius Doran upstairs. She escapes with Mrs Toller’s and Mr c Frank Moulton Fowler’s help. d California After: She marries Mr Fowler and lives happily with e dead him in Australia.
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e Before: He met Alice Rucastle, fell in love with her 7 a a gun / the men were dangerous criminals. and wanted to marry her. b that there was going to be a crime. During: He watches Miss Violet Hunter sitting c because when he saw him he remembered who he near a window in Copper Beeches. He thinks she is was, a dangerous criminal. Alice. With Mrs Toller’s help, he helps Alice escape. d the police inspectors were waiting for him at the After: He marries Alice and moves to Australia with other end of the Square. her. e digging a hole towards the City Bank. f Before: Mrs Toller tried to help Alice. 8 Suggested answers: During: They work for Mr Rucastle. They are not a Mr Wilson, when he is offered a lot of money to very nice to Miss Hunter. Only Mr Toller can do work only a few hours a day to copy a dictionary. anything with Carlo, the dangerous dog. Mrs Toller b Holmes, or Watson, after hearing about the Red- helps Alice to escape because Mr Fowler gives her Headed League. money. c Holmes when he listens to the description of After: no information Spaulding, actually John Clay. 29–39 Open answers d Spaulding, actually John Clay, when Holmes and Watson knock on the door of Mr Wilson’s shop Discussion activities key very late at night. 1–16 Open answers 9 a 7 He had a card game Activity worksheets key b 7 He knew it would happen at the City Bank 7 1 Suggested answers: c Watson did 3 a Because he walks past his house and sees him at d the window. He is thinking about something, so 10 a Because a man saw him following his father with a Watson decides to visit him. gun under his arm. A girl saw him and his father. b Because he needs Sherlock Holmes’s help. They seemed to be fighting. Later, James McCarthy c She is very beautiful. She lives quietly and sings arrived at the girl’s house, without his hat or gun at concerts. She goes for a drive every day at five and with blood on his shirt. The gun and hat were o’clock and always returns at seven o’clock for found near his father’s body. dinner. Only one man visits her. He is a lawyer b No, he says that he didn’t kill his father. and visits her every day. On the day that Sherlock c He saw something grey. Perhaps it was a coat. Holmes watches her house, she gets married to the d Because Charles McCarthy wanted his son to marry lawyer, Godfrey Norton. Alice. James was already married, but couldn’t tell d He wants him to stand by the sitting room window. his father. When Sherlock Holmes lifts his hand, Watson e She tells him that they were never really married. must throw a smoke bomb into the room, shout She already had a husband when they married. ‘fire, fire!’, then go to the end of the street and wait 11 a Because the grass was growing under it, so it was there. only put there a few days ago. And the shape of the e He is dressed as a priest. stone fits the mark on McCarthy’s head. 2 He has a beautiful carriage; he is rich; he tells Holmes b Because he stood behind McCarthy and hit him on to tell no one about his visit; he talks about a request the left side of his head. from a King; he is from Bohemia; the newspapers say c Because his left foot made a deeper mark in the the King of Bohemia is in London. mud, as he puts less weight on his right foot. He 3 a 2 b 4 c 1 d 6 e 3 f 5 does this because he has a bad right leg. 4 Open answers d Because he takes long steps when he walks. 3 5 a Vincent Spaulding b Ezekiah Hopkins 12 a 7 c Jabez Wilson d Duncan Ross b by the lake 7 6 a surprised b dictionary c both laughed c the son did not know anything 7 d in a carriage d e 7
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A Scandal in Bohemia 13 Suggested answers: Progress test key a already married. 1 a When the King visits Sherlock Holmes, he is wearing b ‘cooee’ and ‘rat’. a mask. c he had a bad right foot. b Irene Adler was a singer. d he had about a month to live. c The King needs Irene to give him back a photograph e he signed a letter telling what he did, his daughter of them together. would never know his secret. d Irene falls in love with Godfrey Norton and marries 14 a 2 b 7 c 6 d 4 e 1 f 5 g 3 him. 15 Suggested answers: e Irene decides to keep the photograph but promises a Lady Morcar / Cosmopolitan Hotel. not to show it to anybody. b he had stolen something before. 2 a 7 There were many men. c he looked really frightened. b 3 16 Robert Simon is the son of the Duke of Balmoral. He c 7 Every day during the first month and only on is forty-one years old and plans to marry Hatty, the Saturdays afterwards. only daughter of a rich American. On the day of the d 3 wedding, Hatty disappears. e 7 He was the cheapest. 17 a 3 b ? c 7 d 3 e 3 3 a 1 b 2 c 1 d 1 18 a Violet Hunter to Mr Rucastle, because he wants her 4 a friends to cut her hair. b gun b Holmes to Watson, because he knows Violet c hit him Hunter will need their help soon. d ‘Cooee’ c Mr Rucastle to Miss Hunter, asking her to put a e badly hurt blue dress on. f were driven in a carriage d Mrs Rucastle to Mr Rucastle, because Violet has 5 a 3 b 7 c 7 d 3 e 7 f 3 seen the man in her mirror. 6 a 7 b 3 c 7 d 3 e 3 f 7 19 a Because she goes to the top floor of the house. Mr 7 a 1 b 2 c 5 d 4 e 3 Rucastle is very angry with her. He tells her not to go there again. b They see nobody in the room. The window is open. There are some wooden steps resting against the roof. c He shoots the dog. d Because Mr Rucastle wants to keep the money that her mother left her.
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