Stage 1

Young Adult ELI Readers A1

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet
Pages 8–9
1 1 doctor; 2 hospital; 3 expensive; 4 cheap; 5 remember; 6 forget; 7 finish; 8 start.
2 1 Before; 2 When; 3 so; 4 After.
3 1 T; 2 T; 3 F (he doesn’t know if he will like him); 4 F.
4 1 Stamford; 2 Dr Watson; 3 Dr Watson; 4 Sherlock Holmes; 5 Dr Watson.

Pages 18–19
1 1 in a hotel in London; 2 to a restaurant (to have lunch); 3 London Hospital; 4 He doesn’t
speak for many days; 5 He plays the violin; 6 He says it’s not good to remember too much;
7 Watson is not well, but he is brown. Sherlock thinks he was in a hot country, and he knows
the Bristish have problems in Afghanistan; 8 bored.
2 1 Dr Watson; 2 Sherlock Holmes; 3 Stamford
3 2 someone; 3 anyone/someone; 4 something; 5 anything
4 Own answers

Pages 28–29
1 1 B; 2 B; 3 A; 4 C; 5 C.
2 Suggested answers: 1 he was looking to see if he could learn anything; 2 the tall man?;
3 perhaps he didn’t know it was poison? perhaps the tall man had a knife?
3 1 ’s; 2 from; 3 to; 4 why; 5 write
4 Own answers

Pages 38–39
1 Own answers, but students should include at least three facts about the mystery.
2 1 Who are these boys?; 2 Are they working for you on the Brixton Mystery? 3 How did you
find out about Madame Charpentier’s?
3 1 is; 2 said; 3 are working; 4 will find out; 5 didn’t read.
4 1 F; 2 T; 3 F; 4 T; 5 F; 6 T.
5 Own answers
Pages 48–49
1
Lucy Ferrier Lucy Ferrier John Ferrier Jefferson Hope
aged 5 aged 18

has big brown eyes the most beautiful nearly died in the helps Lucy with her
young woman in Salt Sierra Blanco horse
Lake City

has blonde hair is good with horses forty or sixty years falls in love with
old Lucy

small face falls in love with looks after Lucy helps Lucy and John
Jefferson Hope to run away

wears a pink dress doesn’t want to be is like a father to never forgets when
the wife of Drebber Lucy someone does
or Stangerson something bad to
him

is sad that her she has to be the he works hard and takes the lives
mother is dead wife of Drebber gets a lot of money of Drebber and
Stangerson to die

thinks she will see she dies after only doesn’t like doing //
her mother again one month as what Brigham Young
when she dies Drebber’s wife wants, but doesn’t
say anything

2 It wasn’t easy in Salt Lake City. Brigham Young told everyone how to live. John Ferrier wasn’t
happy with that, but he didn’t say anything. People who didn’t do what Brigham Young said
often died! One day, Brigham Young came to the door.
3 Own answers
4 Own answers

Pages 56–57
1 1 Jefferson Hope; 2 Enoch Drebber; 3 Sherlock Holmes; 4 John Watson.
2 1 first; 2 twenty; 3 then; 4 when; 5 after that; 6 now; 7 end; 8 tomorrow
3 Own answers
4 Own answers

Page 61
1886; Joseph Bell; doctor

Page 62
1 C; 2 A; 3 B; 4 C; 5 B; 6 A