Post 1: Sherlock Holmes

1. Match the presentations of the characters with the picture of each one.

-My name is Sherlock Holmes. I am a scientific detective I solve crimes by logical reasoning and with the help of scientific instruments like forceps and magnifying glasses. When I am at home I like to relax and be comfortable.
At home I often wear my purple dressing-gown and smoke a pipe.

-My name is Dr John Watson. I am a doctor My wife takes good care of me, and always brushes my hat. I am a good observer, but, as my friend Holmes says, I do not reason with what I see

-My name is Peterson. I am a commissionaire. For my job I wear a grand uniform that looks like a military uniform. I work at a hotel where I open the door for clients and tale messages. I found the hat and the goose, and took them to my friend Sherlock Holmes.

-My name is Henry Baker. This is not a good time for me. I often drink, and my wife doesn't love me anre. You can see this because my clothes are always dirty and my hat is never brushed. I have lost my hat and my Christmas goose.

2. Number the sentences i nthe right order and fill in the blanks.

I visited my friend Sherlock Holmes on the second morning of Christmas. When I arrived he was sitting in front of the fire, wearing his purple dressing-gown.

Next to the sofa was a wooden chair, and on the chair was a dirty old hat. A magnifying glass and a forceps were on the chair, so the hat was probably part of one of Holme's investigations.

'You are busy,' I said. 'Perhaps I inturrupt you.'
'Not at all,' he replied, and indicated the hat. 'The problem is very simple, but it is still interesting and maybe even instructive.'

I sat down in an armchair and warmed my hands in front of the fire because it was very cold outside.

'I imagine,' I said, 'that thishat is connected with a terrible crime.'

'No, no. No crime,' said SHerlock Holmes, laughing. 'It is only one of those strange things that happens when four million human beings live within the small area of a city. With so many people every imaginable combination of events is possible and sometimes you can find a problem that is striking and strange but not criminal. Do you know Peterson, the commissionaire?'

3. Match the pictures of the clues with the written description and Sherlock HOlmes' deductions.

C. There is dust on his hat, and it is the kind of dust you find in houses, not on the street.
D. He doens't go out very often.

C.There are some hairs sticking to the hat and there is the distinc odour of lime-cream.
D. He uses lime-cream.

C. There are at least five wax stains on his hat.
D. He does not have gas lighting in his house.

C. His hat is not brushed.
D. His wife has stopped loving him.

C. The hat is big.
D. He is intellectual.

C. He bought a hat-securer, but when it broke he did not replace it.
D. He had foresight, but he has less now.

C. There are pieces of cut hair stuck to the inside of the hat.
D. He has recently had his hair cut.

C. There was the label on the leg of the goose which says 'For Mrs Henry Baker' and there were the initials 'H.B.' written on the inside of the hat.
D. He is married.

C. His hair is greyish in colour.
D. He is middle-aged.

C. This hat came out three years ago, and it is quite worn.
D. He had enough money in the past, but doesn't now.

C. He has tried to cover up the stains with ink.
D. He has not completely lost his self-respect.

C. There are sweat stains on the hat.
D. He is not in the best of training.

OPINION.

The first episode of the Blue Carbuncle it's really interesting for me because it shows the brilliant reasoning of Sherlock Holmes. With only a hat, he can know a lot of characterist of a unknown person.