A. C. Doyle Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Story 1 – The Speckled Band 1.Which person or people smoked strong Indian cigarettes? 2.Which person or people when on a visit away from home, met a young man and agreed to marry him? 3.Who lived in the garden of Dr Roylott´s house? 4.Who got in through a bedroom window in the middle of the night? 5.How much money must Dr Roylott pay Helen Stoner if she marries? 6.Where did Dr Roylott´s wild animals come from? 7.How did Holmes know that there was an air-vent on the wall between Dr Roylott´s room and Julia´s? 8.What was the speckled band?

The Speckled Band - Activities 1. Put together these beginnings and endings of sentences. -we´ll take a room -and that´s why I´m here -Sherlock Holmes was listening -in a hotel in the village -the police couldn´t understand -with his eyes closed -she dies two years ago -why my sister died 2. Retell the story in about 10 – 15 sentences. 3. You are a gypsy in the garden of Dr Roylott´s house. The police ask you what you saw and heard on the night of his death. Act the conversation.

Useful words and phrases to remember a stepfather rich x poor violent to get angry with sb to run freely around the garden a whistle a stormy night a scream to make a mistake to mend st to find st out to pull the rope It doesn´t work. an inside x outside wall to leave (the window) open speckled poison It´s difficult to find poison in a body.