Sherlock Holmes in Simple English: The Copper Beeches
By A L Stringer and Arthur Conan Doyle
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This book is a graded reader. The story has been retold in modern English for students of English as a foreign / second language at intermediate level (CEFR B1) and younger native speakers.
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- Comprehension and vocabulary tasks
- Summary of the story
- Endnotes for difficult words, place names and cultural references
- Word list at the end of the book
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Sherlock Holmes in Simple English - A L Stringer
About graded readers
Graded readers help language learners improve their skills through reading for pleasure. They use grammar and vocabulary that are appropriate for learners at different levels.
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This graded reader is suitable for non-native learners of English at intermediate level (CEFR B1) and younger native speakers (US 6th grade). Stories at this level keep close to the original but are retold in modern English using high-frequency words. Less common words, place names, and points of cultural and historical interest are explained in the endnotes.
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Introduction
The Copper Beeches
Miss Hunter is too poor to refuse a job as a governess in English country house, even when the conditions are very strange. Her new employer is friendly and funny, but why does he keep a large and dangerous dog, and what is in the locked room? It isn't long before she turns to Sherlock Holmes for the answers to her questions.
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by the British author and former doctor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930). He lives in a flat in Baker Street, London with his friend Dr Watson. He works because he enjoys solving mysteries, rather than for money, and only investigates cases that he thinks are interesting. He is best known for his powers of logical reasoning, his ability to use disguises, and his forensic skills (he is the author of a book on different types of cigar ash). Conan Doyle once explained that Holmes was based on real doctors he had known when he was a medical student in the late 1870s.
Holmes is interesting because his personality has many contradictions. He is methodical in his work but untidy in his private life: he keeps his tobacco in the end of a slipper and rarely answers his letters. He is a man of science but also a heavy smoker. He is hard working when he is on a case, but when he has nothing to do, he is bored and lazy. He is an expert in certain fields related to his detective work, but completely ignorant about many other things. He once claimed that he didn’t know the Earth revolved around the Sun because it wasn’t relevant to his work. His interests are mostly intellectual, but he also plays the violin and is an expert at boxing and sword fighting.
Holmes is a loner and has no time for family, social life or romantic relationships. The only woman he admires is Irene Adler, and that is because she manages to outwit him; however, he is always charming to his female clients. As a person, he often seems unemotional and cold, ‘a thinking machine’, but he gets excited when he is in the middle of an investigation and he likes to show