SHERLOCK (Season 1: Episode 3):

THE GREAT GAME

1. About Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Read the text and fill in the gaps with the present simple or past simple form of the verbs in brackets.

Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Scotland in 1859. He’s most famous for his stories about Sherlock Holmes who
1. Sherlock is shooting
1________ at the
(be) a very wall
good because
detective andhe is _____________.
2___________ (solve) crimes with the help of his friend, Dr Watson.
2. John Watson complains
Arthur Conan about a __________
Doyle 3_________ in the refrigerator,
(go) to university in Edinburgh,Sherlock’s
the capital latest science
of Scotland. He 4__________ (move)
experiment.
to the south of England after university and 5___________ (become) a doctor. He 6_________ (write) stories about
Sherlock Holmes in his free time. The first story was called A Study in Scarlet.
3. As soon as Mrs. _____________ complains about her wall, an ____________ occurs in the street
Arthur her
which breaks Conan Doyle 7__________ (publish) twenty-five Sherlock Holmes stories between 1885 and 1895. But he
windows.
8_____________ (not want) to write any more. In the story The Final Problem, Holmes and Watson 9__________
4. Watson’s
(travel)response to living
to Switzerland. with
There, Sherlock
Holmes is that he is(meet)
10____________ ___________ bored.
his enemy, Professor Moriarty. They 11__________
(fight) and 12________ (die) at the Reichenbach Waterfalls.
5. The explosion was not a ____________ but made to look like one. A ____________ was left in the
apartment, whichpeople13_______________
But many contain the contents of (not a pink______.
like) this, and they wrote so many letters to Conan Doyle that he
14_______________ (change) his mind and 15 ______________ (continue) writing Sherlock Holmes mysteries until
6. On the
1920, other end ofyears
twenty-five the phone,
later! a terrified _____________ was speaking about a puzzle to be
_____________.
Many people around the world still 16____________ (love) the character Sherlock Holmes. In the stories, he
7. Jim,17____________
Molly’s boyfriend comes
(live) at 221binto theStreet,
Baker room.inSherlock
London. treats Jim with contempt. He thinks Jim is
___________.
Today, the house at this address 18________ (be) a museum and people from all over the world 19_______ (visit)
8. The it.
owner
Lots ofofpeople
the shoes that Sherlock
20____________ examines
(take) is_________________,
photographs who It
outside the museum. died a tragic
is open everydeath,
day of the year, except
Christmas day! Inside the museum you can buy souvenirs and Sherlock Holmes books.
9. Sherlock deduces that Carl Powers was ________________, his muscles tensed and he drowned.
Arthur Conan Doyle 21__________ (die) in 1930 in Sussex in the south of England.
10. Sherlock has ________ hours to solve the second puzzle.
The Great Game

2. Introduction
2.1 Before watching the episode: read the following sentences and correct the mistakes. Are those the same
mistakes Sherlock noted?

 I weren’t a real man.

 My old man was a butcher, so I know how to handle knives. He learned us how to cut up a beast.
 Yeah, well, then I done it.
 And I looked down and she weren’t moving any more.

1. What weapon is it mentioned in the introduction?

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2. What punishment will the murderer receive?

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3. This kind of crime is called __________________________ crime by Sherlock.

2.2 At Sherlock’s flat:

1. Sherlock is shooting at the wall because he is _____________.

2. What does it refer to “the wall had it coming”? ________________________________________________.
3. John Watson complains about a __________ in the refrigerator, Sherlock’s latest science experiment.
4. As soon as Mrs. _____________ complains about her wall, an ____________ occurs in the street which
breaks her windows.

2.3 After the explosion:

5. Watson’s response to living with Sherlock is that he is ___________ bored.

6. What expression learned this year is it mentioned? _____________ ______________ (two words)
7. The explosion was not a ____________ but made to look like one. A ____________ was left in the
apartment, which contain the contents of a pink______.
8. On the other end of the phone, a terrified _____________ was speaking about a puzzle to be
_____________.

2.4 At the crime lab:

9. The woman is a h_______________________, What does this word mean?

__________________________________________________________________________________________
.
10. The trainers found are part of a l___________________ (information left behind by the criminal, in this
case, on purpose).
11. Jim, Molly’s boyfriend comes into the room. Sherlock treats Jim with contempt. He thinks Jim is
___________.
12. The owner of the shoes that Sherlock examines is_________________, who died a tragic death,

2.5 Second puzzle:

13. Sherlock deduces that Carl Powers was ________________, his muscles tensed and he drowned.
14. Sherlock has ________ hours to solve the second puzzle.
15. By looking into the wallet, Sherlock figures out that Ian Monkford is living in __________.

2.6 Third puzzle:

16. The old blind woman tells Sherlock that he has _____ hours to solve the next puzzle.
17. The tetanus got into the woman’s system not from the _______, as Watson believes but from botox
injected from ___________, the house boy.
18. When the old woman attempts to describe the ________ voice of the bomber, the _______ goes off killing
many people.

2.7 Fourth puzzle:

19. The dead man found on the bank of the river is connected to a fake ___________.
20. The ____________ is a paid assassin.
21. A lot of ___________ and a lot of sitting around. The dead man worked at an ______ gallery.
22. Sherlock gives a homeless woman a ______ pound note for tea. He needs data.
23. Alex, the dead man preferred ______ gazing to art.
24. Professor Cairns lives Alex a ________ message.
25. The homeless woman gives Sherlock a ________ that reads Vauxhall Arches.
26. The ______________ network is Sherlock’s eyes and ears all over the city.
27. The Golem’s murder target is __________________________.
28. Sherlock has _____ seconds to figure out why the painting is a fake.
29. The guilty art dealer admits the whispers said the name __________________.

2.8 The end:

30. The dead man on the track was transported there on the top of a ________.
31. The final victim strapped to a bomb is ___________________.
32. Jim Moriarty is the man that Molly was _________________.
33. Jim Moriarty is a specialist, who is the world’s only consulting ____________.
34. Jim Moriarty comes back to tell Sherlock and Watson that he has ______ his mind. He has decided they
cannot be allowed to continue.

3. Vocabulary
3.1 Match the following words with the right definition:

Blare Sigh Snicker Sob Giggle

Make or cause to make a loud, harsh sound.

Give a half-suppressed, typically scornful laugh; snigger.
Laugh lightly and repeatedly in a silly way.
Emit a long, deep audible breath expressing sadness, relief, tiredness, or similar.
Cry noisily.

3.2 What crimes are mentioned in the whole episode?

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