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10. A couple of days later there appeared an article in a be-weekly newspaper, which was called “Brilliant investigation of Sherlock Holmes”.

2. Answer the following questions:

1. How did Mr. Amberley become one of Mr. Holmes’ clients?

2. What happened to Mr. Amberley? What story did he tell to Holmes?

3. What useful facts did Watson discover while visiting Mr. Amberley’s house?

4. What alibi had Mr. Amberley created for himself?

5. Was painting rather a strange occupation under the circumstances? How did Mr. Amberley explain it to Watson?

6. What important things did Watson miss in his investigation?

7. What wire did Mr. Amberley receive?

8. Why did Holmes insist on Mr. Amberley’s going to Essex and why did he ask  Watson to accompany Mr. Amberley?

9. How did Mr. Amberley prove his repute of being a miser?

10. Where and with whom was Holmes expecting Watson and Mr. Amberley?

11. How was Holmes able to make Mr. Amberley confess?

12. How was the case unraveled by Holmes?

13. Why did Mr. Amberley address to Holmes?

14. What was the article “ Brilliant Police Investigation” about?

Discussion:

1. What do you think about Mr. Amberley? Can we call him a sane person? Can we say that he himself spoiled his life? Why?

2. Holmes both praised and criticized Watson’s attempts at detection.  Can you describe Holmes’s attitude towards Watson? What do you think Holmes’s attitude towards himself is?

3. Do you consider Holmes’s detection methods “irregular”? What  did  he do that the police was unable to do?

4. Did you find the solution of the mystery predictable?

                                 Sauce for the Goose

Pre-reading task:

Before reading the story try to predict what it might be about. Look at the title and try to guess what it means.

Reading:

Read the story carefully and try to understand it in detail. Mind the notes to the text.

Vocabulary focus:

1. Look up and learn the following words. Be ready to give the definitions of these words.

avalanche                              adult                                   to commiserate

to blink                                  bargain                               fatality

heap                                       labour-saving device         obituary page

affronted                                walk-in-deep freeze           superstition

carpet sweeper                       oat-coloured                       constellation

to remonstrate                        bachelor                             to profess

alien                                       to indulge                           humiliation

spirit                                       accident-prone                   resentment

rehearse                                  suicide-prone                     to victimize

backstage                                dawn                                  to varnish

divorce                                    to lure                                awkward

kindling wood                         pretence                             demise

2. Insert the necessary preposition.

1. Have you been … … that shelf … anything lately?

2. Are you blaming me? She asked … a small voice?

3. I arranged those suitcases … there and I’d never have put them so they’d fall … a mere touch.

4. What am I getting … , darling, is that you want something to happen … you.

5. What do you say … a cruise soon?

6. Myers is coming … … the coast and he can take … … me for a couple of weeks.

7. Loren remonstrated briefly, then gave it … .

8. If Olivia didn’t take … an idea … once, she never took … it.

9. It’s such fun to talk to somebody who’s not … the stock-market … a change!

10. Stephen Castle was … for perhaps one minute … Act One.

11. In the next weeks Olivia drove her car … New York at least twice a week … shopping expeditions.