Conan Doyle

1. Do you know the name of this writer?

DoArthur
you know
the
name
of this
Sir
Conan
Doyle
(1859-1930)
writer?

2. What are Conan Doyle`s famous works?

Stories about
Sherlock Holmes

3. Read and watch the writer's biography and answer the questions:

1. When and where
was Conan Doyle
born?
2. What jobs had he
got?
3. When did the first
novel of Sherlock
Holmes appear?
4. How many stories
about Sherlock
Holmes did the
author write?
1. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was
born on May 22, 1859 in
Edinburgh, Scotland.
2. He was a novelist,
photographer,
sportsman,ophthalmologist,
ship doctor.
3. His first work A Study in
Scarlet appeared in 1887.
4. He wrote 56 stories about
the famous detective.

4. Read and watch the writer's biography and answer the questions:

5. How many times
was the writer
married?
6. Why did Conan
Doyle become
interested in
spiritualism?
7. What is The Lost
World about?
8. When did the author
die?
5. He was married twice and
had 5 children.
6. After the death of his wife,
son, brother, 2 brothersin-law, 2 nephews he
became interested in
spiritualism.
7. It is about an expedition
to the Amazon Rainforest
in South America.
8. He died in July 1930.

5. Military campaigning

After the outbreak of the
Boer War (1899–1902; a war
between the British and the
northern natives or Boers of
South Africa for control of
the area, which the British
won), Doyle had served as a
volunteer doctor in the
Langman Field Hospital at
Bloemfontein, South Africa,
in 1900.
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6.

7. Match the sentences (A-G) to the gaps (1-6)

Answer Key
1E
2C
3F
4A
5G
6B

8. Match the words to their meanings. Make up your sentences.

1. put up with
2. not moving
3. cried out
4. hidden
5. sparkled
6. huge
7. shine
8. extreme happiness
9. because
1. endure
2. motionless
3. yelped
4. concealed
5. glittered
6. monstrous
7. gleam
8. ecstasy
9. for

9.

triumphantly: with a sense of victory
upright: vertical
track: a narrow path through a field or forest
swamp: an area of very wet land
clearing: an area in a forest where there is no tall vegetation
slate-coloured: a dark greyish colour
scales: small flat pieces of hard skin that covers certain animals’
bodies
broad: wide
sight: something you see
clumsy: awkward or careless
hopping: jumping up and down on one foot
thuds: dull sounds
bunch: a group of (flowers/grapes)
shimmering: to shine with a faint light
trunks: main stems of trees
comrades: friends
fake: a fake is sb or sth that is not what they pretend to be; an
imitation
specimens: examples of sth or small quantities of sth to be used for
study
praise: to express approval

10. Find words that mean big in the extract

huge
great
big
large
monstrous
enormous

11. Find all words related to animals and list them under the headings:

three-toed feet, fivefingered forepaws,
Parts
ofskins,
body
tails, feet,
muscles, brain,
heads, hand,
cheeks, face
human,
Classes
dinosaurs
birds,
elephants,
lizards,
kangaroos,
crocodiles,
iguanas
Types

12. Who/What is compared to:

- little children?
- elephants?
- a human hand?
- a lizard?
- great beasts?
- crocodiles?
- kangaroos?
the two professors
the baby dinosaurs
footprint of the dinosaur
the dinosaurs
(iguanadons)

13. GROUP WORK. Imagine you are part of the expedition Tell your girl-friend about what you saw.