Make a detailed plan of the story

The Five Orange Pips

1. Transcribe, translate and reproduce the following words in the context.

conjecture preposterous

surmise sundial

deceased to muster (resources)

elemental forces relentless persecution

waterproof to cock a rifle

commencement sprig

hereditary matter to abjure

planter outrage

draught impunity

putty voraciously

tumultuously to devour

chalk pits stevedore

tomfoolery flaw

Give the definition of the following words and reproduce them in the context.

aversion

backgammon

to checkmate

oath

cock-and-bull story

badge

perpetrator

Provide synonyms and translate.

crony to collapse to decoy to devour

Paraphrase with your own words.

equinoctial gale

elemental forces

unbreakable type

to be cooped up

like a sheep in a pen

carpetbag politician

to brave the matter out

5. Learn all the words.

6. Write self-dictations of the following abstracts:

a) “You must know that my grandfather … not even his own brother.”

b) “Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes … were the main points of my analysis.”

The Five Orange Pips

1. Literary translation of the abstracts:

“The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases... my old quarters at Baker Street” (in writing);

“"Ku Klux Klan. A name derived... since that date” (in writing).

2. Arrange chronologically:

Here are 10 lines from the story, arrange them in the correct order

1. I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers and files of the old papers, following the future career of every vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in '83.

2. I found this single sheet upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction.

3. In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an individual and becomes the badge of a society.

4. By the time that their sailing-ship reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder.

5. There he was, sitting with a newly opened envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the outstretched palm of the other one.

6. In the first place, we may start with a strong presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for leaving America.

7. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads.

8. The alarm, however, was given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was eventually recovered.

9. This strange, wild story seemed to have come to us from amid the mad elements-blown in upon us like a sheet of sea-weed in a gale—and now to have been reabsorbed by them once more.

Make a detailed plan of the story

11. State true or false:

a) None of the cases have baffled Holmes' analytical skill, they always had an ending, they were cleared up, and they had their explanations founded rather upon the absolute logical proof than on conjecture and surmise.

b) Holmes guessed that the young Openshow was from Horsham by his smart manner to dress himself.

c) When uncle Elias was sober he used to read his nephew fairy tales.

d) There was nothing of much importance in the attics save the brass box with some money in it.

e) The instructions in the envelope said to put the papers under the old oak tree.

f) The police officer thought that the death of the young men's relatives was to be connected with the warnings.

g) Holmes' first consideration about the case was to avenge on the members of K.K.K. for the death of relatives,

h) Uncle's extreme love for solitude in England suggested that he was a man of retiring disposition.

i) A single man could have carried out two deaths in such a way as to deceive the coroner's jury,

j) Holmes wanted to put the KKK's own devilish trade-mark upon them.

12. Define the following in the story: exposition, narrative hook, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.

13. Write out all the words belonging to the semantic field of ship and navigation.

14. Speak on the following points:

1. Setting of the story. Describe the weather of the day of the narration.

2. The young man's visit at a dreary night. His looks and manners.

3. The beginning of the story. Mysterious letter.

4. Prove the quick-tempered character of Uncle Elias. Dwell upon the style of living, the main facts of his biography.

5. What had happened with John's father? The old Openshaw's underestimation of the threatening danger.

6. Describe the relationship between uncle Elias and John.

7. Retell the whole conversation between Holmes and his visitor shortly.

8. The principle of functioning and organization of KKK:

a) How did they warn their victims?

b) Why did they persecute the victims?

c) Did they act by oneself or in a group?

d) What was the reason of their desire to kill the Openshaws?

9. Why did the name of the ship attract detective's attention at once?

10.Were the murderers punished in the end?

11.Was the shipwreck of the Lone Star a just sentence for the murderers? Did they feel themselves cooped up like sheep in a pen?

12. Retell the story from the point of view of:

Openshaw's uncle

The members of the K.K.K

Sherlock Holmes

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