Does any of these guys ring a bell?Perhaps this one is more your type...
Well, well my fellow detectives, by now you have guessed what this is all about: the reading assigment for the third term are some Sherlock Holmes's stories. Before you start reading answer to these questions with the help of the webs below(This is a team job,work in fours as in your reading groups,open a new word document and write your answers there, send it as an attached document in a mail to my class assigments' account, just one mail per group please!).
1-Who is Sherlock Holmes?
2- Who is Holmes's best friend?
3-Which of these items belong to Sherlock?
- a) a bonnet b) a deerstalker c) a cap.
- a) a spyglass b) a microscope c) a telescope.
- a) a piano b) a flute c) a violin.
- a) a cigar b) a cigarrette c) a pipe.
4- What's the name of Holmes's housekeeper?
5- What was Holmes's adress?
6- Does the building still exist?What can you do there now? name at least three things.
7-Who wrote Sherlock's stories?
8- When were they written?
9-How many of them are there? which is the favourite of the readers?
10- Where did most of them take place?
11- What was the city like at the time?why?
- a )healthy and beautiful.b) filthy and dangerous c) calm and boring.
12-What was and is Scotland Yard?
13-Are Sherlock Holmes stories still famous? How many Holmes books are printed in Europe and the US every year?
14- Who were Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett?
15- What nowadays tv series characters are similar to Holmes and Watson?
Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_holmes
http://www.sherlock-holmes.co.uk/
http://www.sherlockholmes.com/
http://www.sherlockholmesonline.org/
http://www.britainexpress.com/London/victorian-london.htm
THE BIG QUESTION
Did you use your detective skills to complete the first part of the task? I hope so, now just a little extra effort: after reading the story I'll give each group in a few days, you'll have to do an oral presentation in front of the class.One of the parts of the presentation is the introduction, isn't it? Well, rearrange the answers to the questions under these four headings and send me your proposal of introduction!Of course you can complete every paragraph with your own ideas.
HEADINGS:
1)THE CHARACTER
2)THE AUTHOR
3)THE BACKGROUND
4)SHERLOCK TODAY
DONE?
Relax and enjoy yourselves holmes style in the following adress
http://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/lostcasesofsherlock.jsp
ASSESSMENT: TOTAL MARKS 25
- FOR THE SEARCH: 1 POINT FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER (BOTH CONTENT AND EXPRESSION), 0.5 FOR JUST CORRECT CONTENT.
- FOR THE BIG QUESTION:CORRECT DISTRIBUTION OF IDEAS UNDER EACH HEADING: 2 POINTS,LOGICAL ORDERING OF IDEAS IN EVERY PARAGRAPH :2POINTS,ADDITION OF EXTRA IDEAS:2 POINTS.
- KEEPING DEADLINE AND SENDING MAILS CORRECTLY:1 POINT
- USING ENGLISH WHILE WORKING:1.5 POINT
- ORGANIZING GROUPWORK :1.5 POINT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
THANKS TO ALL THE WEBS MENTIONED IN THIS POST,TO GOOGLE IMAGES , TO YOU TUBE AND WARNER PICTURES FOR THEIR HELP IN THE MAKING OF THIS TRESURE HUNT
