| BIBLLOTECA Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Diamond RP~O6 ~ 2042, SEP Ree UForOXFORD ‘UNIVERSITY PRESS Greut Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 60? 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He started writing after working as a doctor and soon became one of the world’s best-known authors. Four other books by Conan Doyle are also available as Dominoes: three Sherlock Holmes stories, The Emerald Crown, The Norwood Mystery and The Sign of Fout, and an adventure story, The Lost World. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESSHere are some of the people in The Blue Diamond. What work do they do? Use a dictionary to help you. Name: Mr Peterson Work: ... Name: Mrs Hudson Work: .... Name: John Horner Work... Work: iv xy (UL mm) Sy \ Name: Mr Windigate Name: Mr Breckinridge Name: Mrs oakshott 9 | Work: . = Work: .. aS OTK vn SP 2 Which of these people help to steal the diamond? aSherlock Holmes The Blue Diamond Cuaprer1 An old hat y name’s Dr Watson, and I'm a good friend of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Two days after Christmas last year I went to his house — 221B Baker Street. I wanted to say ‘Happy Christmas!’ to him. When T arrived, I found him in the sitting room. He was by the window with some newspapers next to him. There was an old hat on a chair near him, and he had a magnifying glass in his hand. ‘You're working on something,’ I said. ‘Shall I go?’ ‘No,’ said Holmes. ‘Sit down and look at that interesting old hat over there.’ ’. Holmes /haomz! diamond a very expensive stone that usually has no colour sitting room the room in a house where people sit and talk newspaper people read about things ‘that happen every cay in this magnifying glass ‘when you look through this, small things are bigrime killing someone, or taking money from someone doorman 2 man working at a hotel; he opens the front daor far visitors bird an animal that can fly; you can eat some birds goose (plural geese) a large, usually white bird; people sometimes eat it at Christmas 00k to make things for people to eat shoulder this is between your arm and your neck fall (past fell) to 0 down suddenly ‘try to want to do something but not 10-¢0 it well walking stick a long, thin piece of ‘wood; you use this to help you to walk. Isat down. It was cold out in the street, but it was nice and warm in Holmes'’s sitting room. ‘Why are you interested in that old hat? Is it something to do with a crime?’ I asked. Holmes laughed. ‘Not a crime, no,’ he said. ‘I got it from Peterson, the doorman at the Baker Street Hotel. ‘He found it in the street and brought it here on Christmas Day for me to look at. He also brought a dead bird with him — a good fat Christmas goose — at the same time. ‘I gave the goose back to him this morning. He’s cooking it at his house now and he’s going to eat it for dinner tonight.’ ‘First it was a hat, and now you're talking about a goose!’ I said. ‘I don’t understand.’ ‘Then let's begin when it all began,’ said Holmes. ‘At about four o’clock in the morning of Christmas Day, Peterson went home after work. When he got to Tottenham Court Road he saw, in the street in front of him, a tall man with a goose over his shoulder. Peterson walked behind him for some time. ‘There were some young men in the street in front of them. Suddenly one of them hit the tall man’s hat off his head and it fell into the road. Then the tall man tried to hit the young man with his walking stick, but by accident he broke the window of a shop behind him. ‘At that moment Peterson ran to the man to help him, but the tall man ran away. Perhaps he felt bad about breaking the shop window. Perhaps he thought that Peterson — in his doorman’s coat and hat — was a policeman.‘When he ran, he left his Christmas bird in the street next to his hat. The young men ran away at the same time, so Peterson took the goose and the hat home with him, and the next day he brought them here. “There was an interesting little ticket on the goose’s left leg,’ said Holmes. ‘It said “For Mr and Mrs Henry Baker". We can find the letters H.B. in the hat too.’ ‘Oh... the owner of the hat and the goose is called Henry Baker,’ I said. *Yes,’ answered Holmes. ‘But my dear Watson this doesn’t help us very much. There are hundreds of Henry Bakers in London. I gave the goose back to Peterson this morning,’ he went on, ‘and I said to him: “Have this for your dinner!” [ didn’t want it to go bad, — owner tre person ; that sometning you know. belongs toadvertisement you pay ta put this ina newspaper intelligent quick- ‘thinking poor not rich nose this is between your eyes brain this is in your head and you ‘think with it buy (past bought) to give money for something ‘Did Mr Baker put an advertisement in the newspaper about his hat and goose?’ I asked. ‘No,’ answered Holmes. ‘Then how can we find him?" “Well, perhaps his hat can help us,’ said Holmes. ‘Here’s my magnifying glass, Watson. Now, you be a detective for a minute or two, What can you tell me about the owner of this hat?’ I took the magnifying glass and looked at the hat. It was black but old, and very, very dirty. I saw the letters H.B. in it. For me it was no different from any other old black hat. ‘Ican see nothing,’ I said, and I gave the hat back to my friend. ‘Excuse me, Watson. You do see, but you don't think about what you see.’ ‘All right!’ I said. ‘What can you see in this hat?’ ‘The owner of this hat is an intelligent man,’ said Holmes. ‘He was once rich and is now poor. His wife loved him once but she doesn’t love him now. And he’s thirty or forty years old. ‘Well, perhaps I'm slow, Holmes, but I don’t understand,’ T said. ‘Why is he an intelligent man, do you think?’ Holmes put the hat on his head. It came down to his nose. ‘This is a big hat. A man with a big hat has a big head, and a man with a big head has a big brain. A man with a big brain thinks a lot.’ ‘But you say he was once rich and is now poor. Why?’ ‘The hat is three years old. I remember these hats were in all the shops then. They were very expensive too. ‘Three years ago this man bought a good hat, so he was rich then. But he has no money to buy a new hat now, so these days he is poor.’‘All right,’ I said. ‘But you say he is in his thirties or forties. How does the hat tell you this?’ ‘Well, when I looked carefully at the hat with my magnifying glass, I could see some grey hairs in it. People usually get grey hair in their thirties or forties.’ ‘I see. But what about his wife? You say she doesn’t love him. ‘Because the hat is very dirty. When a woman loves her husband, she cleans his hat for him.’ ‘Perhaps he hasn't got a wife.’ “Yes, he has. Remember the ticket on the goose’s leg.’ ‘Ah yes,’ I said. ‘You have an answer for everything.’ At that moment the door opened and Peterson the hotel doorman ran into the room. He looked very excited. “The goose, Mr Holmes. The goose!’ he said. “What's the matter with the goose?’ asked Holmes. ‘Did it come back from the dead and fly off through the kitchen window?" ‘No, Mr Holmes. My wife found this in the bird!’ Peterson opened his hand. There was a beautiful blue diamond in it. grey the colour between white and black kitchen the room in a house where people cookREADING CHECK Are these sentences true or false? The story happens in December. Hoimes tells his friend Watson about a tall man with an old hat. The tall man left a yellow bird in the street. A hotel doorman — Peterson — gave the hat and the bird to Holmes. Holmes gave the bird to Watson, Peterson's wife found a green diamond in the bird a) 3 we WORD WORK v almlalg nti IF Iv Ti Inigl afi fals|s 5 True False Oo Oo Pa oO QO Q oO oO SSE) = a o he olola Look at the pictures and complete the crossword. N Read the blue squares and write the name of another blue jewel.3 Find the words from Chapter 1 and write the sentences. a She's cuskrg it inthe kitchen now. ADVERTISEMENT — Do you want to buy anew d The crims — didn’t happen in the sitting woo dot la f The decrmen — jsn’t the owner of the fat Abe, .deocnen....160! Ir, ANe..c The story of the blue is very interesting. 5) | a woey inberesttag. + Une... Sar the... ue...diamend is. SY 8 GUESS WHAT What happens in the next chapter? Write Holmes, Watson, Peterson or Nobody in each sentence. calls the police. knows about the owner of the diamond. takes Peterson to the police. keeps the diamond. writes to the Countess. .. puts an advertisement in the newspaper. ~"e noosecountess the,wife of a rich, important men disappear to go away suddenly Jewel an expensive stone pay (past paid) to give money for something Hin, 27th Desens 1580: PE MES Cuarter 2 The Blue Diamond hen Sherlock Holmes saw the diamond in the doorman’s hand he sat up. ‘Well, well, Peterson,’ he said. ‘ What a wonderful thing to find in a goose. Do you know what you have in your hand?’ ‘I think it’s a diamond, Mr Holmes. Is it expensive?” “Yes, it is,’ said Holmes. “This is the Countess of Morcar’s blue diamond. It disappeared a week ago.’ ‘How do you know that?’ I said. ‘Watson, you must read the newspapers more often. There's an advertisement in The Times today about it. Here, look.’ Holmes gave the advertisement to me. Then Holmes spoke to the doorman. ‘It’s a very expensive jewel, Peterson. The Countess paid about ee 000 for it. Last week someone took Te it from her rooms in the Se eee Cosmopolitan Hotel. Now the ADVERTISEMENT Countess wants LY Se ae AW Sa PED) Te | -FINDs THE COUNTESS » MORCAR'S DIAMOND | an Gav st000 |e to get her diamond back. She says that she’s going to give a thousand pounds to the finder.’ — 2 = ily‘A thousand pounds!’ cried Peterson excitedly. Then, without saying more, he sat down in the chair between us. First he looked at Holmes and then he looked at me. ‘The diamond disappeared five days ago, I think,’ I said. “Yes,” answered Holmes. ‘They say a young man, John Horner, took it. Here’s a newspaper report about the case.” Holmes gave an old newspaper to me and I read the report some report. writing in a nevispaper repair to make something that is A DIAMOND DISAPPEARS FROM iv" assistant manager an THE COSMOPOLITAN HOTEL = ==" court the police F I The Countess | some time. When I | the court: ‘When take someone here of f Morcar’s | came back, Homer | I said “You're a wren nesfhink blue diamond wasn't there, and 1 diamond thief!” Someta Wren disappeared from | found the open box, | Horner hit me” her room at the | without the jewel in | Soon after that Cusack /'kjusseh/ Cosmopolitan Hotel it, on the table next Horner told the down uw Al across | SS | past APB eee: ::) Complete Dr Watson’s diary using the prepositions in the pictures. Use some of them more than once. First we walked a) .OWY). the stairs and went out b) .. winter street. Then we walked ¢) .. Baker Street 20 the other side and turned right. We walked d).... the street for some time and talked about the blue diamond. When we arrived at The Alpha we walked €) sesso warm pub. We were only there for five minutes then we walked f) ... . the building again, This time we turned left, walked 9) oss the Britis Museum and walked h) .. Breckinridges Dy ‘Shop in Covent Garden and went in, Half an hour [i later we got i) .. . a cab with a weak little man and drave back j) sss. Holmes’ house, We gtt k) sees the cab, walked I) .. te the stairs and A) esses. the sitting room. The little man soon answered all our questions there. vos the cold50 i GRAMMAR CHECK Subject and object questions in the Past Simple When Who or What is the subject of the question, we don’t use an auxiliary verb. Peterson saw the man with the goose. Who saw the man with the goose? = subject When Who or What is the object of the question, we use an auxiliary verb + infinitive. Peterson saw the man with the goose. Who did Peterson see? = object Write Detective Bradstreet’s questions using Who or What in place of the underlined words. > a Something happened. g The manager took somebody to the Countess's room. g ~ dares Ryder sohng a 4. J The poise fund something inthe room g 4] Somebody put an advertisement in a newspaper. g < Sanne te wer oth ta enon see. AE = | cy ° a ° >GRAMMAR CHECK Time clauses with before, after, and when before links a later action with an earlier action. You must listen to me before you go. after links an earlier action with a later action. After she cooked the goose, Peterson's wife found the diamond. when links two actions close in time. When he got to Tottenham Court Road, he saw a tal! man with a goose. When we write the time clause first, we must use a comma, Before we go, can you please tell us your name? Complete Mr Ryder’s story using before, after, or when and the best ending from the box. | got to her house Pr r \ left the hotel | went to see my friend my sister came into the garden | got to his house | left with the dead goose arrived at his shop I ran back to my sister's house | told my friend about the diamond Left the hotel wen 5 hea . | went to my sister’s house. | told my sister about the diamond thief ...... | put the diamond in the goose’s mouth So ee eee «.-Lkilled the goose I told my friend about the diamond in the goose : .. we opened the goose with a knife. a b c d e f : hh There were no geese in the garden ..... i My sister took the geese to Covent Garden ..........esceeeeeneeee j Breckinridge sold the geese 51_ DOMINOES witsexeair Dominoes is an enjoyable series of illustrated classic and modern stories in four carefully graded language stages ~ fram Starter to Three — which take learners from beginner to intermediate level. 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