A Study in Scarlet

STAGE 1 Elementary | 600 headwords | A1 | Classic

A Study in Scarlet is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first story with Holmes and Watson.

Come and walk the dark streets of London with the great Mr Sherlock Holmes! When Sherlock Holmes gets a letter from the police, he and his new friend, Doctor Watson, have a difficult problem. Who is the rich man in the empty house? Why did he die? And, most important of all, will Holmes and Watson find the man who did it? Or will they be too late?

Syllabus

Nouns – Plural – Possessive ’s Pronouns Indefinite: some-, no-, any-, every- (body/thing); Subject and object

Determiners Ordinal numbers: first – hundredth; Quantifiers some/any, more,;

Distributives: another, other, each Adjectives Comparative: er/more + adjective…than, as….as; Superlative: the

–est (in/of), most + adjective Verb forms and tenses Negative

questions; Present Continuous; Present Simple; Past Simple of listed irregular

verbs; Common phrasal verbs with transparent meanings

Adverbs Adverbs of frequency; Question words