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Learning resources: Different activities on developing listening, speaking, use of English and reading skills about Jobs and work.
Warm - up (3-4 minutes)
Books closed. Ask students what they know about the Sherlock Holmes stories. Write their ideas on the board and include these details:
Sherlock Holmes is a private detective
Dr Watson is his assistant
They solve crimes in London at the end of the 19th century.
Famous stories include Hound of Baskervilles and Sign of Four.

I. The blog of Information
1. Do you read different stories?
2. Who is the Sherlock Holmes?
3. What writers do you know?
4. Listen and repeat the new words
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Goose/geese
Ticket
hat

II. The blog of logical tasks
What can you see at this pictures?

III. The blog of practice and take the note of knowledge.
I-level.
Pre-Teaching W
Exercise 1. Read the story sections 1-8. Then match them to the pictures A-G. Tell students to look at the pictures and make a list of things they can see. Start the list by writing these items on the board: a goose, a blue diamond, an advertisement. Go through the pictures with students identifying the main elements, e. g. picture A - goose, man wearing a suit etc.
1. Holmes and Watson go to The Alpha and talk to Mr Windigate.
2. Mr Peterson finds a blue diamond inside the tall mans goose.
3. Someones steals the countess of Morcars blue diamond from her rooms in the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
4. Mr Peterson goes to see Cherlock Holmes
5. A tall man with a hat is walkng with a goose over his shoulder.
Answers: 1. E 3. F 5. C 7. D
2 . H 4. G 6. A 8. B

II-level
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