Step Four READING & TRAINING KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES Sir Arthur Conan Doyle information. Professor Moriarty The correct order of the sentences is: would probably kill him if he knew C, F, A, I, E, B, G, D, H about it. Page 29 – activity 3 B2.1 Page 19 – activity 5 Open answers. A A writer uses a pen name and an Page 30 – activity 4 actor/actress or a performer uses The Valley of Fear D Rich American Businessman Found a stage name. B See answer key at back of book. Dead in Country Mansion Page 19 – activity 6 Page 30 – activity 5 Open answers. 1 I received the call at eleven forty- KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES AND EXIT TEST five. Page 20 – activity 7 2 When I arrived at the house, the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Page 10 – activity 3 1 lived 2 criminals 3 respectable drawbridge was up. 4 offence 5 controlled 6 owners 3 The people in the house were 1 A 2 D 3 B 4 C 5 F 6 G 7 H 8 E Page 7 – activity 1 7 obligation 8 stolen 9 successful feeling confused and upset. 1 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the PART ONE 10 government 4 Mr Pennyworth, the doctor, arrived shortly after I did. second of ten children. Page 20 – activity 1 2 It is thought the character of CHAPTER 0NE 5 The murderer had shot the victim Sherlock Holmes is based on Dr Open answers. with a sawn-off shotgun/in the face. Bell, his university professor. Page 17 – activity 1 CHAPTER TWO 3 Conan Doyle worked as a doctor 6 In the room there was a card with 1 A 2 A 3 B 4 B 5 D 6 C 7 C on ships. some initials on it. Page 28 – activity 1 4 He married twice: once to Louise Page 18 – activity 2 7 The murderer probably hid behind 1 T the curtain. Hawkins and then to Jean Leckie. 1 The victim was American. (D) 2 T 8 The murderer had time to take off 5 The Valley of Fear first appeared in 2 The victim was killed with/by a 3 F – The card and the ring show the wedding ring and then to put serialised form in the Strand shot from a sawn-off shotgun. (C) it was premeditated murder. the other ring back on. Magazine. 3 When the victim was found a 4 F – The candle had only burnt 6 The Valley of Fear is very similar candle was burning on the table. Page 31 – activity 6 a little. to A Study in Scarlet . (A) 5 F – The butler said that Mr Open answers. 7 The Sherlock Holmes stories often 4 The murderer probably escaped by Douglas hadn’t cut himself for start and end in Baker street, climbing out of the window. (B) Page 31 – activity 7 a very long time. London. Open answers. 8 The Sherlock Holmes stories were Page 18 – activity 3 6 T written at a time when science, 1 Doctor Watson 2 Porlock Page 28 – activity 2 Page 32 – activity 1 rationality and progress were 3 Inspector MacDonald 4 Mr Douglas 1Cdrawbridge 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 B 5 B important. 5 Mrs Douglas 6 Cecil Barker 2Amuddy footprints 9 Kingsley was Conan Doyle’s eldest CHAPTER THREE 3Fcard/initials/number son. Page 19 – activity 4 4Bweapon/shotgun 10 Conan Doyle died in 1930. Possible answer: It would be Page 39 – activity 1 dangerous to give his real name. 5Hbicycle 1E...was in the kitchen. Page 10 – activities 1 & 2 He doesn’t want anyone to know that 6Glamp 2C...calling the servants. Open answers. he is giving Sherlock Holmes 7Ewedding ring 8Ddumbbell 3A...went to the front of the house 9Imark/triangle/circle together. 2 KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES 4G...down the stairs. story is set, is a fictional place in at one point. can’t answer 1. 5H...study telling Mrs Douglas to go Sussex, England. 3 friendly, happy, cheerful 1 We do not know why the murderer back to her room. 5 Scotland Yard, which was founded Mrs Douglas: chose to use a loud shotgun. 6D...with Mrs Douglas all night. in 1829, is the name of the main 1 scared but quiet 2 We now know that Mr Douglas is 7B...the lamp was. office of the London police force. 2 shocked but friendly, a little unable to remove the wedding ring 8F...they couldn’t see anything out 6 The Sherlock Holmes Museum, nervous, charming from his hand – it is not on the of the window. which is in Baker Street, is popular 3 happy, cheerful dead body since the murdered man with tourists. B was not Mr douglas but the cyclist Page 39 – activity 2 1 Dr Watson thinks that they share – his enemy, Ted Baldwin. Page 41 – activity 7 1 Barker met Douglas in California, some secret and are hiding 3 The missing dumbbell was used to where they worked in a successful Student’s game. something. weigh down the package of clothes mining company. Page 42 – activity 1 2 Open answers. etc to the bottom of the moat. 2 Douglas was a widower when he 4 We learn that the cyclist was the Open answers. Page 50 – activity 5 left California. He met his second man who was killed, and so the wife in England. Student’s game. bicycle was not used to escape. 3 Barker thought that a secret CHAPTER FOUR Page 50 – activity 6 society was after John and wanted Page 60 – activity 3 to kill him. Page 48 – activity 1 A1B 2 A 3 E 4 C 5 D 6 F B and C are now different 4 His first wife Ettie died a year 1 A 2 C 3 D 4 B 5 B The slippers made the mark in Page 60 – activity 4 before Barker met him. the study. Page 49 – activity 2 5 He didn’t like to be near other B The cyclist was wearing a grey 1 Ted Baldwin men. 1 Mr Holmes asked the butler suit, short yellow coat and cap. 2 mark of a Lodge/ a triangle in a 6 One of John Douglas’s faults was to come in. Possible answers: Today a cyclist circle burnt onto his arm his jealousy./Barker had seen John 2 He was wearing a pair of bedroom would wear (cycling) shorts, t- 3 22.45/ quarter to eleven Douglas act jealously. slippers. shirt, special cycling shoes or 4 Cecil Barker 3 I left them and carried on walking. trainers, helmet, gloves, reflective 5 shot/face/sawn-off shotgun Page 39 – activity 3 4 Watson asked if Holmes had or bright clothing. 6 Possibe accident/self-defence 1 D 2 C 3 F 4 B 5 A 6 E solved it. involving John Douglas Page 51 – activity 7 5 Neither of them is telling the truth. Page 40 – activity 4 Page 61 – activity 5 6 ‘Watson, can you lend me your Open answers. Open answers. Possible answers: umbrella, please?’ Page 52 – activity 1 1 She’s been running. Page 40 – activity 5 7 Watson said that he had to ask Holmes himself. Open answers. 2 He’s been talking on the phone. Open answers. Page 52 – activity 2 3 She’s been painting. Page 49 – activity 3 4 He’s been swimming. Page 41 – activity 6 1 T 2 T 3 F 4 F 5 F 6 T 7 F 8 T Uncomfortable: confused, agitated, 5 Someone has been writing a letter. 1 Dr Watson, who also lived in Baker shy, nervous, alarmed, scared, angry, 6 Someone has been washing their Street, often helped Holmes with CHAPTER FIVE shocked, worried clothes/doing the washing. his detective work. Relaxed: friendly, calm, cheerful, Page 60 – activity 1 Page 61 – activity 6 2 The Valley of Fear, which was charming, patient, happy, arrogant published in 1914, was one of Could be either: quiet 0 H 1 G 2 E 3 B 4 C 5 I 6 A 7 F 1 A 2 A 3 C 4 B 5 D 6 C 7 D 8 D Conan Doyle’s later works. D not needed 3 Conan Doyle, who was born in Page 50 – activity 4 Page 62 – activity 7 Page 60 – activity 2 Edinburgh, was a very active and A Cecil Barker: Open answers. creative man. We now know the answers to 1 calm Page 62 – activity 8 4 The village of Birlstone, where this 2 friendly but a bit arrogant, angry questions 2, 3 and 4, but we still Open answers. 3 4 KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES Hiding Places 4 farmers 5 skills 6 museum Page 77 – activity 5 5 McMurdo shot the man in Chicago 7 society 8 film 1 Doctor Watson is telling the story. because he said he was going to Page 66 – activity 1 go to the police. Page 76 – activity 1 John Douglas wanted him to tell 1 John Douglas. the story. 6 McGinty says that Ettie can choose 1 Jack McMurdo is travelling in a 2 When Sherlock Holmes knew 2 Ettie Shafter, Jacob Shafter, Mike between the two men which one train. about the hiding place he realised Scanlan and Jack McMurdo are the she wants to marry. 2 He meets a miner called Scanlan. John Douglas was not really dead new characters in the story. and that the murder victim was 3 He then has an argument with the Page 91 – activity 2 someone else.