Ex.5 Read the dialogue in pairs and answer the questions.

SHERLOCK BBC.

Episode one. Part one.

Ex.1 Read and translate the synopsis of the episode.

Sherlock is a British television crime drama that presents a contemporary adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. The first episode, "A Study in Pink", loosely based upon the first Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet.

The police investigate the deaths of a series of people who all appear to have committed suicide by taking a poisonous pill. They turn to their unofficial consultant, Sherlock Holmes, who deduces various elements pointing to a serial killer. Meanwhile, Sherlock Holmes is introduced to John Watson, a former soldier who served in Afghanistan, and the pair immediately move into a flat in Baker Street.

Ex.2 Read about the main character from the blog of John Watson. Give your suggestion about Sherlock’s features, skills, style of life, habits, appearance. Express your opinion about him.

FROM THE PERSONAL BLOG OF DR. JOHN H. WATSON

FULL NAME: Sherlock Holmes
OCCUPATION: Consulting detective
ADDRESS: 221B Baker Street, London, England, UK
FAMILY: Mycroft Holmes
ARCH ENEMY: Jim Moriarty

How would you describe Sherlock Holmes? Resourceful, dynamic, enigmatic? (Did someone just say "late?")

Sherlock is the master of deduction, a consulting detective, the only one in the world as he invented the job. He's brilliant, a proper genius, and doesn't he know it. Should you ever meet him, he will no doubt read your family history in your mobile phone and your occupation in the way you hold yourself. Be warned though, he is not a man who has time for social graces, so you may find him more than just a little insulting at times, but you mustn't be offended if he calls you an idiot, he thinks practically everyone is!

Ask Sherlock about astronomy however and you may just have him. With his mind like a computer hard drive, he only stores information that is really useful. Like what size suitcase makes a certain radius of splash pattern, or what bruises are formed after death on a body beaten by a riding crop. So what does it matter then, really, if the earth goes around the sun?

Without the work, Sherlock's brain rots, so give him problems to solve as Sherlock is bored easily and that's never good for the walls. The more bizarre or impossible the problems the better they are, that's why Scotland Yard go to him when they are out of their depth... which is always.

Although he is a self-proclaimed high functioning sociopath (do your research and don't call him a psychopath), if you do have a problem to solve which is worth his time, open and shut domestics need not apply by the way. Sherlock can be contacted via his websitewww.thescienceofdeduction.co.uk.

Vocabulary:

Trust issues – Проблемы с доверием

To read my writing upside down – Прочесть рекомендации, перевернув смысл (буквально: поставив все с ног на голову)

To adjust to civilian life – Приспособиться к гражданской жизни

Nothing happens to me. – Ничего со мной не происходит.

Ex. 3 While watching the episode pay attention to the following facts and answer the questions below:

1. How did Dr. Watson feel? Why did Dr. Watson have to attend the shrunk? What was his problem?

2. What was the main recommendation to him?

3. Did it work? Why?

Vocabulary:

Get a cab! - Возьми такси!

To live life to the full – Жить полной жизнью

Preliminary investigations suggest that this was suicide. – Предварительное расследование позволяет предположить, что это было самоубийство.

To resemble – Напоминать, быть похожим

In the light of this, these incidents are now being treated as linked. – В свете этого, инциденты будут теперь рассматриваться как связанные.

A poison – Яд

A murder – Убийство

The poison was clearly self-administered. – Яд был определенно принят самостоятельно.

Well, don't commit suicide. – Что ж, не совершать самоубийства.

Obviously, this is a frightening time for people, but all anyone has to do is exercise reasonable precautions. – Очевидно, что люди напуганы, но все, что любому из нас сейчас необходимо - это разумные меры предосторожности.

Ex. 4 While watching the episode pay attention to the following facts and answer the questions below:

1. How many did strange causes of suicide happen?

2. Who were the people died after the taking a poison?

3. Was there any sameness of these murders?

4. Who was the head of investigations?

5. What was the question of Daily Mail’s journalist?

6. What factor was annoying for the journalists and Detective Inspector Lestrade?

Ex.5 Read the dialogue in pairs and answer the questions.

M: John! John Watson! Stamford, Mike Stamford.
We were at Barts together.

J: Yes, sorry, yes, Mike, hello.

M: Yeah, I know, I got fat.
J: No, no.

M: I heard you were abroad somewhere getting shot at. What happened?
J: I got shot.

Are you still at Barts, then?

M: Teaching now, yeah. Bright young things like we used to be. God, I hate them.

What about you? Just staying in town till you get yourself sorted?

J: I can't afford London on an Army pension.

M: You couldn't bear to be anywhere else. That's not the John Watson I know.
J: Yeah, I'm not the John Watson...

M: Couldn't Harry help?
J: Yeah, like that's going to happen …

M: I don't know, get a flatshare or something?
J: Come on, who'd want me for a flatmate?

(LAUGHS)

J: What?
M: You're the second person
to say that to me today.

J: Who was the first?

1. Who was Mike Stamford?

2. What did he suggest Dr.Watson to solve his financial problem? What was the answer?

3. What could happen later? (Give your own version)

Vocabulary:

Natural causes – естественные причины

We'll start with the riding crop. – Сперва поработаем плетью.

I need to know what bruises form in the next 20 minutes. A man's alibi depends on it. – Мне нужно знать форму кровоподтеков через двадцать минут. Алиби зависит от них. Пришли смс.

You're wearing lipstick. – Вы накрасили губы.

Black, two sugars, please. I'll be upstairs. – Черный. Два кусочка сахара, пожалуйста. Я буду наверху.

To borrow – одолжить

А landline – стационарный, городской телефон

A violin – скрипка

Would that bother you? - Не будет ли это вас беспокоить?

Potential flatmates should know the worst about each other. – Потенциальные соседи по квартире должны знать худшее друг о друге.

We ought to be able to afford it. – По всей вероятности мы сможем себе это позволить.

Sorry, got to dash. I think I left my riding crop in the mortuary. – Простите, надо бежать. Думаю, я оставил свою плеть в морге.

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