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                                              PART 3
 
HOW DO YOU PCITURE THE AVERAGE DAY OF A GENIUS?
WHICH HABITS DO YOU THINK THEY ENTERTAIN - QUITE ORDINARY ONES OR ARE THEY EXTRAORDINARY EVEN IN THEIR DAILY ROUTINES? LET'S READ ABOUT HOLMES...
 
TASK 1 - READING TO UNDERSTAND
 
READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes

Watson describes Holmes as "bohemian" in habits and lifestyle. According to Watson, Holmes is an eccentric, with no regard for contemporary standards of tidiness or good order. In The Musgrave Ritual, Watson describes Holmes thus:
Although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind ... he keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece ... He had a horror of destroying documents.... Thus month after month his papers accumulated, until every corner of the room was stacked with bundles of manuscript which were on no account to be burned, and which could not be put away save by their owner.
What appears to others as chaos, however, is to Holmes a wealth of useful information. Throughout the stories, Holmes would dive into his apparent mess of random papers and artefacts, only to retrieve precisely the specific document or eclectic item he was looking for.
Watson frequently makes note of Holmes's erratic eating habits. The detective is often described as starving himself at times of intense intellectual activity, such as during "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder", wherein, according to Watson:
Holmes had no breakfast for himself, for it was one of his peculiarities that in his more intense moments he would permit himself no food, and I have known him to presume upon his iron strength until he has fainted from pure inanition.
 
  • Bohemians are people who
  • Holmes is an eccentric, which means he
  • In his work Holmes pays attention to every detail, whereas in his household, he
  • Holmes uses a jack-knife to
  • Holmes had an unusual fear - he was afraid to
  • Holmes had a knack for finding useful information in
  • In his creative chaos of randomly kept documents and items,
  • Sherlock didn't have good eating habits - they were
  • When concentrating deeply on a case, Holmes often
  • Holmes sometimes even fainted
 
TASK 2 - READING WHILE WATCHING
 
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOUT ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, THE GENIUS CREATOR OF HOLMES, READ THE TEXT AND TICK THE CORRECT ANSWERS BELOW.
 
 
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Barbados.
  • He was born in the nineteenth century.
  • His birthplace was Edinburgh.
  • He had eight siblings.
  • While training to be a doctor, he noticed his teacher's deductive abilities.
  • Diagnostic deduction was not the source of inspiration for the character of Holmes.
  • Sherlock Holmes first appeared as a comic book character.
  • Holmes says that his abilities are only cemetery.
  • When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
  • Doyle got so bored with Holmes's character that he tried to kill him off in The Study in Scarlett.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WERE THE CREATOR OF SUCH A GENIUS IN MODERN TIMES? HOW WOULD YOU USE HIS POPULARITY? DO YOU THINK HOLMES COULD FUNCTION AS SUCCESSFULLY IN TODAY'S WORLD?

READ MORE ABOUT HOLMES AND WATSON IN ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S BOOKS...