Conan doyle

Ex.1. Read the story¹ attentively. Insert the missing words, given below.

Sherlock Holmes and a Taxi-Driver.

Everyone has heard of Sherlock Holmes, everyone has read his stories and enjoyed them... Sherlock Holmes, as you know, was a... detective whose adventures produce a great... not only on the young but on the old people as well.

In every story Holmes shows his great ability as a detective who was able to tell the whole history of a person ... by looking at the person. Holmes looked at a man's hands, he ... a small mark on the man's neck and he knew ... that the man had been a soldier, that he had spent some years in India, etc, etc.

The author of all Sherlock Holmes' stories was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Once Sir Arthur was in Paris. He was going in a taxi from the railroad station to the hotel where he was going to spend the night. When he arrived at the hotel, he got out of the taxi and paid the taxi-driver more than he had to do.

"Thank you very much, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle", said the taxi-driver....

"How do you know who I am?" asked Sir Arthur. He was much surprised at... his name.

"Well, sir, I read in the newspaper yesterday that you were coming to Paris from the south of France. I also ... that your hair was cut by a barber in the south of France. The train on which you had arrived came from the south of France. Your clothes, and ... your hat, told me that you were English. So I put all this together and I guessed at once that you were Sir Arthur Conan Doyle".

"That is wonderful", said Sir Arthur. "With so ... facts, you were really able to know me!"

"Of course", said the taxi-driver. "Your name is on the both of your travelling bags. That also helped me... .

(famous, at once, greatly, simply, especially, hearing, smiling, few, a great deal, noticed, impression).

Ex.2. Read the story attentively again to find out

	1. Conan Doyle was a generous man;
if
	2. he was a communicative person.
	…

Ех.3. Reread the story and say

	1) Conan Doyle was really much surprised or he pretended to be surprised;
if	2) the taxi-driver really got the information from the newspaper;
	3) he was an observant person.
	…

Ex.4. What word indicates that the taxi-driver didn't want to show how he came to know the writer’s name.

Ex.5. Read another story about Conan Doyle attentively.

Say if it differs much from the first one.

Cite the necessary words, phrases, sentences… to prove your point of view.

About Conan Doyle

There is probably no one among book-lovers who has not heard of Sherlock Holmes, the skilful and clever detective in the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes's method of analyzing the most difficult problems was to notice the smallest facts, even if they seemed unimportant. His method never failed; the criminal always had to give up, and to become a prisoner of the great detective.

Conan Doyle once arrived in Paris, after spending a month in the south of France. There was a long row of cabs outside the gate of the railway station. Conan Doyle got into the first cab and ordered the driver to take him to a good hotel. The driver was silent all the way to the hotel, but when Conan Doyle paid him, he said, "Thank you, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle".

"How do you know who I am?" Conan Doyle asked in the greatest surprise.

"I have never seen you before", the man answered, "so I can't pretend that I recognized you. But I read in the newspapers that you were expected in Paris after your vacation in the south of France. The train you arrived on came from the south of France. I could tell from your clothes, especially your hat, and also from the strange way you pronounce French words that you were English. These facts helped me to guess that yon were probably Sir Arthur Conan Doyle".

"Fine work! Wonderful!" Conan Doyle cried. "You analyzed the facts quite correctly. It's a pity you aren't a detective!"

"Of course", the driver added" "your name is on both your travelling bags. I can't pretend that that fact didn't help".

Ex.6. Read these two stories again and say, which of them