Карточки с упражнениями к уроку

Task 1
Read the headline of the text and guess what it is about.

Task 2
Look briefly at the statements, then start reading and choose the statement that suits the text best.

1.  The article describes a crime which Sherlock Holmes together with Doctor Watson are trying to expose.

2.  The article tells about the museum of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Doctor Watson.

3.  The article tells about Sherlock Holmes and all his adventures.

Task 3

Look at the words in the box, find the sentences with them and try to guess the meanings of these words.

Interior / Study / Overlook / Landlady
Artificial / Diary / Wax models / To be cited

Task 4
Look through the text again and find out what these numbers and dates tell us about: 1815, 1860-1934, 17, 221, 1881-1904. Do you remember the sequence in which they appeared in the text?

Task 5

Answer the questions to the text

1.  Where can you find Sherlock Holmes’s museum? When was it built?

2.  How many floors are there in this museum?

3.  Can you find real Sherlock Holmes in the museum? Where?

4.  What’s the most popular question visitor ask their guides?

5.  Did Holmes and Watson really lived in this house? What do you think?

6.  What impressed you most about the museum?

Task 6

Say whether these sentences are true or false. If they are wrong read out the right sentences from the text.

1.  “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson” were written by Jack London.

2.  The lodging house was built in 1812.

3.  Visitors can’t do anything in the museum but just walk around and look at exhibits.

4.  All the rooms contain personal things and private papersof the great detective and his friend.

5.  Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson were real people.

6.  Sherlock Holmes is very popular even nowadays and is read all over the world.

Task 7

Find and read out the sentences with modal verbs.

HEADLINES:

Arthur Conan Doyle and his favorite Sherlock Holmes

The protected heritage

Find Yourself in Holmes’s armchair

The museum’s treasures

Feel yourself part of a detective story

Holmes and Watson: Fact or Fiction

Headings:

Arthur Conan Doyle and his favorite Sherlock Holmes

The protected heritage

Find Yourself in Holmes’s armchair
The museum’s treasures
Feel yourself part of a detective story
Holmes and Watson: Fact or Fiction