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Sherlock Holmes and
the Red Circle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES AND EXIT TEST
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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F – He observed them carefully.
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F – He started writing his first
Sherlock Holmes story because he
did not have many patients.
5 F – When Conan Doyle stopped
writing Sherlock Holmes stories his
readers got angry.
6 T
Chapter One
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1 on 2 in 3 with 4 about 5 at 6 for
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Chapter Four
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1B 2C 3A 4B 5C 6A
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A house B beard C London D meal
E daily
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9 J 10 D
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Be careful because there is a very
clever London detective here.
1 Who – C 2 When – B 3 Where – F
4 How – D 5 What – A 6 Why – E
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1 armchair 2 frightened 3 dangerous
4 enemy 5 candle
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1 F – More people were starting to
learn how to read and write.
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3 F – He wrote mainly about poor
people and social problems at that
time.
4 F – He wrote detective stories.
6 F – Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle
Book.
1 Holmes thought the cigarette stubs
were very strange because the man
had a beard.
2 Holmes thought there could be two
people in the room.
3 Holmes thought the person received
messages in the newspaper.
4 Holmes thought the person spoke
some English.
5 Holmes thought the name of the
message sender began with a G.
6 Holmes found the last message in
yesterdayʼs newspaper.
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Victorian Writers
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Chapter Two
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9 J 10 A 11 I 12 D
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1 beard – it is not part of the body
2 meal – it is not specific; it is general.
3 daily – it can be an adjective, adverb
or noun; the other three are nouns
4 London – it is a city and not a
nationality
5 house – it is not a specific room
writes in capital letters; smokes
cigarettes; eats very little; does not
leave the room; reads the newspaper
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Chapter Three
B A O E T O R E N S
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T H I C E M E F P A
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P I U A W I Y O P T
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S D A N G E R O U S
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2 an 3 him 4 with 5 were 6 in
7 were 8 this 9 it
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1E 2G 3H 4A 5C
1T 2T 3F 4T 5F
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Chapter Five
1B 2A 3C 4A 5C 6C
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1 opened 2 visited 3 listened
4 studied 5 looked 6 stayed/waited
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1 terrible 2 beautiful 3 frightened
4 important
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1 slowly 2 angrily 3 quickly 4 well
5 correctly 6 silently
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Recording script
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Leverton: Thanks! I would love to go.
Gregson: Good! I’ll pick you up early
Saturday morning.
Leverton: My hotel is near Piccadilly
Circus but we can meet at King’s Cross
station.
Gregson: Well, it’s easier if I pick you up
at your hotel at half past seven and then
we can go to the station together.
Leverton: Sounds good, Gregson!
Police and Detectives
in the 19 th Century
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Polish
Swiss
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Japanese
Greek
Portuguese
Mexican
Australian
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Danish
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1 Italian 2 American 3 Dutch
4 Greek 5 Turkish 6 Irish
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- Emilia: dark eyes, young, beautiful,
dark hair
- Gorgiano: very big, tall, frightening,
loud voice, angry, bad, big arms
- Gennaro: kind, dark eyes, poor,
handsome, young, dark hair
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1 British
2 American
3 Italian
4 Spanish
5 Russian
6 Chinese
7 German
8 French
9 Dutch
10 Turkish
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1 T
2 F – Sir Robert Peel started the
London Metropolitan Police in
London.
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4 F – There were only eight men in the
first detective department.
5 F – Forensic methods started to be
used after Conan Doyle wrote most of
his Sherlock Holmes stories.
Chapter Six
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1 microscope 2 chemical analysis
3 handwriting analysis 4 fingerprint
matching 5 footprint matching
6 photograph analysis
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1 emigrated 2 had 3 went 4 arrived
5 gave 6 discovered 7 travelled
8 brought 9 was 10 grew
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Gregson: Hello Leverton! How was your
trip from America?
Leverton: Well, I left New York before
Christmas and spent Christmas Day
with my parents in Boston. Then I
celebrated New Year’s Eve with my
sister and brother who live in Salem.
The next day I left Boston harbour on
the new steamship ‘American Star’.
Gregson: Last year I sailed from New
York to Liverpool on the same ship and
it took me 25 long days. It was a bad
trip with terrible weather. How long did
it take you?
Leverton: Well, it usually takes 15 days
to cross the Atlantic because this new
steamship is fast. But this time we
stopped in Newfoundland and Ireland to
pick up some passengers so it took us 5
extra days.
Gregson: Do you like travelling by sea?
Leverton: Oh, I love the sea! I was born
in Boston and that’s right on the Atlantic
Ocean. It’s a great city with lots of
things to do, but the weather is cold and
wet most of the year, except for a short,
hot summer. I like travelling by train, by
horse and by horse and carriage, too. I
took the train across the American
continent last year. I had to arrest a
criminal in San Francisco.
Gregson: I love the sea too. My family
has a house and a little fishing boat in
my hometown in Scotland. If you’re free
this weekend, we can take the train and
go fishing there.
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After Reading
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1 F – Sherlock Holmes did not ask for
any money.
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4 F – Mrs Warren wanted to call the
police because two men pushed her
husband into a cab.
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6 F – Holmes thought the lodger was in
danger.
7 F – Gennaro sent messages with the
flame of the candle to the lodger.
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9 F – Leverton came from New York
because he wanted to arrest
Gorgiano.
10 F – Gorgianoʼs body was on the floor
in an empty apartment.
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13 F – Emilia and Gennaro went to
London to escape from Gorgiano.
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Choose the correct answer – A, B or C.
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Mrs Warren was very frightened by
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her husband.
B
the girl who helps her clean.
C
the new lodger.
The lodger
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wore old clothes.
B
did not speak English.
C
came from another country.
Holmes and Watson wanted to see the lodger,
A
and give him the Daily Gazette.
B
so they hid in Mrs Warrenʼs closet.
C
and ask him some questions.
They discovered that the lodger
A
was a beautiful young woman.
B
was very ill.
C
was a criminal.
Someone sent messages to the lodger
A
with small pieces of paper.
B
with the flame of the candle.
C
once a month.
Holmes and Watson met Gregson and Leverton
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at Scotland Yard.
B
at Pinkertonʼs Detective Agency.
C
outside the red building.
Emilia Luccaʼs husband Gennaro
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worked for Pinkertonʼs Detective Agency.
B
killed Gorgiano.
C
was a friend of Leverton.
Gorgiano set up the Red Circle in New York
A
and made a lot of friends.
B
and in London.
C
and told Gennaro to kill his best friend.
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CHARACTERS
Match the character with the description. You can use a character
more than once.
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Gregson
Mrs Warren
Gennaro Lucca
Mr Warren
Mr Leverton
Emilia Lucca
Sherlock Holmes
Doctor Watson
Gorgiano
Who was pushed into a cab early in the morning?
Who worked for Pinkertonʼs Detective Agency?
Who was a dangerous criminal?
Who was the daughter of Augusto Barelli?
Who worked for Tito Castalotte in New York?
Who rented rooms to lodgers?
Who worked with Sherlock Holmes?
Who was a detective from Scotland Yard?
Who wrote with a purple pencil?
Who had big book with advertisements from the London papers?
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