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Д62 Приключения Шерлока Холмса: Собака Баскерви
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#1 Answer the questions:
1. What did Dr. Watson think about the visitor who had left his
stick behind the day before? How did he come to these conclu
sions?
2. Were his conclusions correct? What mistakes did he make?
3. What did Sherlock Holmes think of Dr. Watson’s role as his
companion?
4. Who visited Sherlock Holmes?
5. What did Dr. Mortimer look like?
6. Were Sherlock Holmes’s deductions about Dr. Mortimer cor
rect?
7. Why did Dr. Mortimer call on Sherlock Holmes?
#2 Find the following phrases in the text and reproduce situa
tions from the text with them. Give Russian equivalents.
1. on an occasion
2. to be in smb’s debt
3. to occur to smb
4. to be in the habit of doing smth
#3 Complete the sentences with the phrases above in the correct
form (one gap for a phrase).
1. It is easy to find him and talk to him in private as he ... walk
ing with his dog in the park every evening.
2. You can ask me for help whenever you need it. I ... and would
gladly do anything for you.
3. Alice and Peter are going to the best restaurant in town ... of
their engagement.
4. Has it ... you that your parents can’t support you any longer?
They’re elderly and would like to retire. Find yourself a job.
#4 Paraphrase the underlined parts of the sentences so as to use
the phrases above.
1. He has said many times that I owe him a lot and that I should
substitute for him whenever he asks me to.
2. Our neighbour has a habit of singing in the shower and that is
awful. He has no idea that we hear his singing.
3. As other children asked Tom Sawyer to let them paint the fence
he suddenly had an idea that he could make some money at it.