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Sherlock Holmes and the Sport of Kings adapted audiobook in English. The first level is 400 basic words.

Detectives must see, hear and remember everything. They should be interested in the weather, people's shoes, flowers in a woman's hat, a box of matches in a man's pocket. They must understand people; they should know about dogs and sheep and horses. They should even know about horse racing, the sport of kings... When Silver Flame, a famous racehorse, disappears, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson visit his stables at Dartmore. Silver Flame is favorite for the big race in a week's time and his owner, Mr Ross, is hoping to win the race. But first, he must find his horse. There is also the case of the corpse - John Stacker, the trainer of the Silver Flame. His wife found his body in the mud near the stables. And Inspector Gregory must find the killer. But he and Mr. Ross get the wrong answers to their questions. So, says Sherlock Holmes, what really happened in the stables on Monday night? And, just as important, what didn't happen?

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ACTIVITIES:

Before Rending

1 Read the back cover of the book, and the introduction on the first page. How much do you know now ahout the story? Yes or No:
YES/NO
1 Silver Blaze is a racehorse.
2 Sherlock Holmes is the owner of Silver Blaze.
3 Racehorses make money when they win races.
4 Silver Blaze's trainer is dead.
5 Mr Ross found John Straker's body.
6 John Straker's body was in the stables.
7 Inspector Gregory knows all the answers.
8 Sherlock Holmes goes, down to Dartmoor.
2 Some of these things are helpful for finding the answer to the mystery. Can you guess which? l ick nine of the sixteen boxes.
? a betting book? some hair
? somebody's dinner? a horseshoe
? somebody's breakfast? a chicken
? a box of matches? a dog
? a woman's shoes? a cat
? a woman's hat? some sheep
? a man's hat? a knife
? a man's shoes? a letter

While Reading

Read Chapters 1 and 2. How much do we know now about the mystery? Which of these sentences are true, and which are possibly true, but we don’t really know yet?
1 Someone killed John Straker on Monday night.
2 Silver Blaze disappeared the same night.
3 Silver Blaze is dead.
4 Before Monday, Silver Blaze was the favorite to win the Wessex Cup.
5 Ned Hunter did not take Fitzroy Simpson’s money.
6 John Straker found Fitzroy Simpson in the stables in the middle of the night.
7 Fitzroy Simpson put opium in Ned Hunter's curry.
8 Edith Baxter put opium in Ned Hunter's curry.
9 Ned Hunter slept all night because of the opium.
10 Fitzroy Simpson killed John Straker.
Before you read Chapter 3, can you guess what Holmes does
next? Choose one answer for each question.
1 Which of these people does Holmes talk to?
a) Ned Hunter b) Mrs Straker c) Fitzroy Simpson
2 What does Holmes find in the mud on the moor?
a) an envelope b) a horseshoe c) a broken match

Read Chapters 3 and 4. We can answer some of these questions now, but not all of them. Answer the questions when you can, and write ‘Don’t know yet’ for the others.

1 Why did Simpson have a ten-pound note in an envelope?
2 Why did John Straker take a doctor’s eye knife with him that night?
3 What was the dress-maker’s bill for?
4 Why did Mr Darbyshire’s letters come to Straker’s house?
5 How did Holmes know that the tracks on the moor were Silver Blaze’s?
6 What did Silas Brown do to Silver Blaze?
7 Why did Holmes want to go back to London that night?
8 Why wasn’t Mr Ross happy with Holmes’s promise?
9 Why did Holmes want a photograph of John Straker?
10 What was important about the lame sheep?
11 What did the dog at the stables do in the night-time?
12 Why was that strange?
Before you read Chapter 5 (A day at the races), can you guess
what happens? Choose one answer for each question.
1 What happens in the Wessex Cup race? Silver Blaze. ..
a) wins the race. c) comes last. b) comes second. d) falls and breaks a leg.
2 Who docsn’r go to the races?
a) Sherlock Holmes. c) Inspector Gregory. b) Dr Watson. d) Mr Ross.

3 Where is John Straker’s killer on that day?
a) In the Dartmoor stables b) In a police station. c) At the races. d) In London.
Read Chapter 5. Choose the best question-word for these questions, and then answer them.
What/Why
1 … was Mr Ross very pleased with Sherlock Holmes?
2... was the name of John Straker’s killer?
3. . . did Holmes want to talk about it later?
How does the story end? Before you read Chapter 6, look at these sentences. Can you guess how many are true? Choose as many as you like.
1 The dog did not bark because it did not hear the midnight visitor.
2 The midnight visitor to the stables was John Straker.
3 John Straker wanted to kill Silver Blaze.
4 John Straker wanted Silver Blaze to win the Wessex Cup.
5 John Straker wanted to win a lot of money on the Wessex Cup race.
6 Straker used the eye knife to cut Silver Blaze’s leg.
7 In London Holmes visited a dress-maker.
8 Mr William Darbyshire was a good friend of Straker’s.
9 Sherlock Holmes tells Mr Ross all about Silas Brown.

After Reading

1 Match the names with the sentences. Then use the sentences to write about the people. Use a pronoun (he) and linking words ( and, but, so, because) where possible.
Mr Ross / Silas Brown / John Straker / Fitzroy Simpson
Example: Mr Ross wanted Sherlock Holmes to find his horse, but he did not understand detective work and .. .
1 ____ changed the color of Silver Blaze’s coat.
2 ____ made his money taking bets at the races.
3 ____ needed money for the expensive Mrs Darbyshire.
4 Mr Ross wanted Sherlock Holmes to find his horse.
5 ____ went down to King's Pyland stables.
6 ____ tried to make Silver Blaze a little lame.
7 ____ was afraid of the police.
8 Mr Ross did not understand detective work.
9 ____wanted to ask the stable boys some questions.
10 ____ went to the stables in the middle of the night.
11 ____ told Sherlock Holmes everything.
12 ____ took Silver Blaze out onto the moor.
13 ____ wanted answers to the mystery at once.
14____ took Silver Blaze to Winchester races.
15 ____ never came home again.

2 Here is a new illustration. Answer the questions, and then find
a good place in the story to put the picture.
1 What is happening in this picture?
2 What is not happening in this picture?
3 What does the answer to the second question tell us?
A good place for the picture is on page ____.

Now write a caption for the illustration.

3 What did Sherlock Holmes say to Silas Brown? Put them conversation in the right order, and write in the speakers’ names. Sherlock Holmes speaks first (number 3).
1 ____ ‘A different colour? The police are going to find that very interesting, Mr Brown.’
2 ____ ‘And how do you know that?’
3 ____ ‘Now, Mr Silas Brown, I want to see Silver Blaze.’
4 ____’Yes, I have. He's round the back. He's. .. er .. . well, he’s a different color now.’
5 ____ ‘Yes. And he must win it! With your help, Mr Brown. Now, listen carefully,..,’
6 ____ ‘The tracks… Oh. Oh dear.’
7 ____ ‘My name is Sherlock Holmes, and I know that the horse is here.’
8 ____ ‘Don’t tell the police, sir. Please! I can change the color back very quickly.’
9 ____ ‘Yes, Mr Brown, oh dear! Now, have you got the horse here?’
10 ____ ‘Yes, very well. He's a wonderful horse, sir. He can still win the Wessex Cup, you know.’
11 ____ ‘Because I found the tracks of your shoes on the moor, next to the tracks of Silver Blaze, and the tracks came here.’
12 ____ ‘He’s not in my stables! And who are you)’
13 ____ ‘Then you must do it today. Is the horse well?’

4 Here is a newspaper report about Silver Blaze. Use these words (one for each gap) to complete the passage.
before, bets, cut, disappeared, found, good, horse, horseshoes, kicked, killed, killer, knows, leg, mystery, owner, races, where, won
At Winchester ____ today Silver Blaze ____ the Wessex Cup - ____ news for the ____ Mr Ross and all the people with ____ on the horse. The detective Sherlock Holmes ____ Mr Ross’s horse, and he ____ the name of John Straker’s ____ too. So who ____ John Straker? The_did! Straker tried to make a ____ in a tendon in Silver Blaze’s ____, and the horse _____ out. The ____ hit Straker on the head and killed him. The horse then ____ until today. And ____ was Silver Blaze in the week ____ the Wessex Cup race? That is still a ____.

5 Find the fourteen words (three letters or more) in this word search. Words go from left to right, and from top to bottom. Which four words make a headline for the newspaper report?


Sherlock Holmes, the hero of the English writer Arthur Conan Doyle, is my favorite literary character. I am fond of detective stories and have read a lot of works by Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Georges Simenon and other writers. But for me, Sherlock Holmes remains the kindest, smartest, and most talented.
His fame spread to all corners of England, and then the brilliant detective became known throughout the world. Holmes goes to investigate the Vatican; even powerful monarchs need his help. Holmes uses the famous deductive method in his work. He can tell about a person and his character based on individual details, on some little things. Holmes has a friend - Doctor Watson. There is much he does not understand about Holmes' decisions and conclusions, and he constantly asks questions. Just like me: just like him, I am surprised by the words and conclusions of Sherlock Holmes. And Sherlock Holmes always patiently and clearly explains what we don’t understand.
I really like the detective story “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” which begins with Sherlock Holmes literally extracting a lot of information from a stick left in his house by a visitor. And when the owner of the stick appears, it turns out that everything Holmes said is true.
This time we are talking about the curse that hangs over the Baskerville family. From ancient times, a manuscript has been passed down from generation to generation, which says: “Beware of going out into the swamps at night, when the forces of evil reign supreme.” It would seem that this is a legend, a fairy tale, but goosebumps run through your skin when you hear the cries of night birds in a huge swamp, breathing and growling huge dog, ready to tear to pieces a living person. Everyone experiences fear, and only Sherlock Holmes knows what to do. He remains calm and composed. He does not believe in any ancestral spells, and his logic and common sense ultimately win.
I think Sherlock Holmes will remain my favorite hero for the rest of my life. He has all the traits a person needs: he is interesting, fearless, persuasive, smart. Sherlock Holmes, the hero of the English writer sir Arthur Conan Doyle - my favorite literary character. I am fond of detectives and read a lot of Agatha Christie, PoE, Georges Simenon and other writers. But the most kind, smart, talented, I have a Sherlock Holmes.
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At this time we are talking about the curse, which hang above a native of the Baskervilles. From ancient times, passed on from generation to generation the manuscript, which is written: "Beware of leaving the swamps at night, when the forces of evil ruled unchallenged." This would seem to legend, fairy tale, but shiver run through the skin, when you hear the cries of night birds on a huge bog, the breath and the roaring of a huge dog, ready to devour a living person. Fear is, and only Sherlock Holmes knows what to do. He remains quiet, mellow. In any ancestral curse, he does not believe, and its logic and common sense to eventually win.
I think Sherlock Holmes will remain my favorite hero for life. It has all the features necessary to man: it's interesting, fearless, compelling, intelligent.

If you are studying English or speak it fluently, listen to the adventures of the most famous detective in world literature in the original language, and then test your understanding of the work by listening or reading the Russian translation.

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and ratiocination, and is renowned for his skillful use of "deductive reasoning" while using abductive reasoning (inference to the best explanation) and astute observation to solve difficult cases. He is arguably the most famous fictional detective ever created, and is one of the best known and most universally recognizable literary characters in any genre.

Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that featured Holmes. All but four stories are narrated by Holmes" friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself, and two others are written in the third person. The first two stories, short novels, appeared in Beeton"s Christmas Annual for 1887 and Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialized novels appeared almost right up to Conan Doyle's death in 1930. The stories cover a period from around 1878 up to 1903, with a final case in 1914.

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One of the four novels within the sixty episodes of the Sherlock Holmes canon, A Study in Scarlet(1877) marked the debut of Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, along with their residence at 221 B Baker Street, Inspector Lestrade, and the ragtag band of street urchins Holmes referred to as "the Baker Street Irregulars." Doyle modeled Holmes in part upon the idiosyncrasies of one of his medical school instructors, Dr. Joseph Bell; the literary structure, however, he borrowed from Edgar Allan Poe's stories of Auguste Dupin. The brilliant but eccentric detective, the admiring friend who narrates the story, the cases which are puzzling and fantastic as much as sensationally criminal, the dramatically revealed solution at the end; all these are elaborated from Poe's work.

The great detective"s melancholy mood is lifted by the arrival of attractive Mary Morstan at 221B Baker Street. Mary"s father vanished ten years ago. Four years later she bagan to receive, annually, a large, lustrous pearl. Now she has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor and urges Holmes and Watson to accompany her. The duo are confronted with a case that includes a wronged woman, a wooden-legged ruffian, hidden treasure, and a love affair.

3: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 12 stories by Arthur Conan Doyle that were originally published in Strand magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. This collection includes some of Holmes' most famous cases.

4: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894)

  • The Stock Broker's Clerk (1893)

An ancient family curse has caused the shocking death of all of Sir Henry Baskerville's ancestors, and the distinguished Dr. James Mortimer wants Sherlock Holmes to help protect his friend. According to local legend, an enormous, savage, supernatural hound lives on the Grimpen Moor, and has just killed yet another Baskerville. Despite Holmes's well-deserved reputation as a crime specialist and brilliant sleuth, even he wonders whether his powers of deductive reasoning can defeat this mysterious, hellish beast.

6: The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1904)

An English gentleman is murdered with a uniquely American weapon: a sawed-off shotgun. Since the police are baffled, Sherlock Holmes is asked to solve the murder.
The story is similar in structure to "A Study in Scarlet", with the second half taking place in the United States and filling in the history of what led up to the first half. Toward the end, the story comes back to Holmes and Watson.

8: His Last Bow (1917)

9: The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927)

VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND

Arthur Conan Doyle
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On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the skill of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which presented more singular features than that which was associated with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. The events in question occurred in the early days of my association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours, as to the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tends to make the matter even more terrible than the truth.

Looking through my notes on the adventures of Sherlock Holmes - and I have more than seventy such notes that I have kept over the past eight years - I find in them many tragic cases, some funny ones, some bizarre ones, but not a single one. ordinary: working for the love of his art, and not for money, Holmes never took on the investigation of ordinary, everyday cases, he was always attracted only to cases in which there was something extraordinary, and sometimes even fantastic.
The case of the Roylott family from Stoke Moron, well known in Surrey, strikes me as particularly bizarre. Holmes and I, two bachelors, were then living together in Baker Street. I probably would have published my notes earlier, but I gave my word to keep this matter secret and I released my word only a month ago, after the untimely death of the woman to whom it was given. It will perhaps be of some use to present the matter in its true light, for rumor has attributed the death of Dr. Grimsby Roylott to even more terrible circumstances than those which actually existed.

It was early in April in the year ’83 that I woke up one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits.

I woke up one April morning in 1883 to find Sherlock Holmes standing by my bed. He was not dressed at home. He usually got out of bed late, but now the clock on the mantelpiece showed only a quarter past seven. I looked at him in surprise and even somewhat reproachfully. I myself was true to my habits.

“Very sorry to knock you up, Watson,” he said, “but it’s the common lot this morning.” Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she retorted upon me, and I on you.”

“I’m very sorry to wake you, Watson,” he said. - But that’s the kind of day it is today. We woke up Mrs. Hudson, she woke me up, and I woke you up.

“What is it, then-a fire?”

What is it? Fire?

“No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a significant state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should call you and give you the chance.”

No, client. Some girl arrived, she is terribly excited and definitely wants to see me. She's waiting in the waiting room. And if a young lady decides to travel through the streets of the capital at such an early hour and get a stranger out of bed, I believe she wants to communicate something very important. The case may turn out to be interesting, and you, of course, would like to hear this story from the very first word. So I decided to give you this opportunity.