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The Sign of Four
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The Sign of Four
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Adapted by Nancy Timmins Activities by Eleanor Donaldson
Crime
Sherlock Holmes is bored. But a fascinating new case is just around the corner. The attractive Mary Morstan arrives at 221B Baker Street with a strange story to tell. Her father vanished ten years ago: four years later she receives six beautiful pearls, one each year. She has been invited to meet the sender of these pearls and asks Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson for their help.
Dossiers within the reader:
The Andaman Islands, The British in India
Features: - aimed at teenagers and adults
- introduction about the author and his/her times
- wide variety of motivating activities
- activities in the style of the Cambridge ESOL and Trinity exams
- fascinating cross-curricular dossiers, which explore the historical and cultural background of the text
- a recording on CD of the text in British or American English, with extra listening activities
- extensive vocabulary footnotes
- exit tests
- guided Internet projects
The list below shows the main grammatical structures used at level B2.1: Present Perfect Simple with the first/second/etc. time that … – Present Perfect Continuous with for & since – Passive forms with the Present Perfect Simple – Reported speech with precise reporting verbs (e.g. suggest, promise, apologise, etc.) – 3rd Conditional: if + past perfect, … would(n’t) have – All conditionals with may & might – Non-defining relative clauses with which & whose – Clauses of concession with even though, in spite of & despite
Answer key is available online (please contact us for password)
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