SHERLOCK BBC.
Episode one. Part one.
Ex.1 Read and translate the synopsis of the episode.
Sherlock is a British television crime drama that presents a contemporary adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. The first episode, "A Study in Pink", loosely based upon the first Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet.
The police investigate the deaths of a series of people who all appear to have committed suicide by taking a poisonous pill. They turn to their unofficial consultant, Sherlock Holmes, who deduces various elements pointing to a serial killer. Meanwhile, Sherlock Holmes is introduced to John Watson, a former soldier who served in Afghanistan, and the pair immediately move into a flat in Baker Street.
Ex.2 Read about the main character from the blog of John Watson. Give your suggestion about Sherlock’s features, skills, style of life, habits, appearance. Express your opinion about him.
FROM THE PERSONAL BLOG OF DR. JOHN H. WATSON
FULL NAME: Sherlock Holmes
OCCUPATION: Consulting detective
ADDRESS: 221B Baker Street, London, England, UK
FAMILY: Mycroft Holmes
ARCH ENEMY: Jim Moriarty
How would you describe Sherlock Holmes? Resourceful, dynamic, enigmatic? (Did someone just say "late?")
Sherlock is the master of deduction, a consulting detective, the only one in the world as he invented the job. He's brilliant, a proper genius, and doesn't he know it. Should you ever meet him, he will no doubt read your family history in your mobile phone and your occupation in the way you hold yourself. Be warned though, he is not a man who has time for social graces, so you may find him more than just a little insulting at times, but you mustn't be offended if he calls you an idiot, he thinks practically everyone is!
Ask Sherlock about astronomy however and you may just have him. With his mind like a computer hard drive, he only stores information that is really useful. Like what size suitcase makes a certain radius of splash pattern, or what bruises are formed after death on a body beaten by a riding crop. So what does it matter then, really, if the earth goes around the sun?
Without the work, Sherlock's brain rots, so give him problems to solve as Sherlock is bored easily and that's never good for the walls. The more bizarre or impossible the problems the better they are, that's why Scotland Yard go to him when they are out of their depth... which is always.
Although he is a self-proclaimed high functioning sociopath (do your research and don't call him a psychopath), if you do have a problem to solve which is worth his time, open and shut domestics need not apply by the way. Sherlock can be contacted via his websitewww.thescienceofdeduction.co.uk.
Vocabulary:
Trust issues – Проблемы с доверием
To read my writing upside down – Прочесть рекомендации, перевернув смысл (буквально: поставив все с ног на голову)
To adjust to civilian life – Приспособиться к гражданской жизни
Nothing happens to me. – Ничего со мной не происходит.
Ex. 3 While watching the episode pay attention to the following facts and answer the questions below:
1. How did Dr. Watson feel? Why did Dr. Watson have to attend the shrunk? What was his problem?
2. What was the main recommendation to him?
3. Did it work? Why?
Vocabulary:
Get a cab! - Возьми такси!
To live life to the full – Жить полной жизнью
Preliminary investigations suggest that this was suicide. – Предварительное расследование позволяет предположить, что это было самоубийство.
To resemble – Напоминать, быть похожим
In the light of this, these incidents are now being treated as linked. – В свете этого, инциденты будут теперь рассматриваться как связанные.
A poison – Яд
A murder – Убийство
The poison was clearly self-administered. – Яд был определенно принят самостоятельно.
Well, don't commit suicide. – Что ж, не совершать самоубийства.
Obviously, this is a frightening time for people, but all anyone has to do is exercise reasonable precautions. – Очевидно, что люди напуганы, но все, что любому из нас сейчас необходимо - это разумные меры предосторожности.
Ex. 4 While watching the episode pay attention to the following facts and answer the questions below:
How many did strange causes of suicide happen?
Who were the people died after the taking a poison?
Was there any sameness of these murders?
Who was the head of investigations?
What was the question of Daily Mail’s journalist?
What factor was annoying for the journalists and Detective Inspector Lestrade?
Ex.5 Read the dialogue in pairs and answer the questions.
M: John! John Watson! Stamford, Mike Stamford.
We were at Barts together.
J: Yes, sorry, yes, Mike, hello.
M: Yeah, I know, I got fat.
J: No, no.
M: I heard you were abroad somewhere getting shot at. What happened?
J: I got shot.
Are you still at Barts, then?
M: Teaching now, yeah. Bright young things like we used to be. God, I hate them.
What about you? Just staying in town till you get yourself sorted?
J: I can't afford London on an Army pension.
M: You couldn't bear to be anywhere else. That's not the John Watson I know.
J: Yeah, I'm not the John Watson...
M: Couldn't Harry help?
J: Yeah, like that's going to happen …
M: I don't know, get a flatshare or something?
J: Come on, who'd want me for a flatmate?
(LAUGHS)
J: What?
M: You're the second person
to say that to me today.
J: Who was the first?
Who was Mike Stamford?
What did he suggest Dr.Watson to solve his financial problem? What was the answer?
What could happen later? (Give your own version)
Vocabulary:
Natural causes – естественные причины
We'll start with the riding crop. – Сперва поработаем плетью.
I need to know what bruises form in the next 20 minutes. A man's alibi depends on it. – Мне нужно знать форму кровоподтеков через двадцать минут. Алиби зависит от них. Пришли смс.
You're wearing lipstick. – Вы накрасили губы.
Black, two sugars, please. I'll be upstairs. – Черный. Два кусочка сахара, пожалуйста. Я буду наверху.
To borrow – одолжить
А landline – стационарный, городской телефон
A violin – скрипка
Would that bother you? - Не будет ли это вас беспокоить?
Potential flatmates should know the worst about each other. – Потенциальные соседи по квартире должны знать худшее друг о друге.
We ought to be able to afford it. – По всей вероятности мы сможем себе это позволить.
Sorry, got to dash. I think I left my riding crop in the mortuary. – Простите, надо бежать. Думаю, я оставил свою плеть в морге.
Ex.6 Read Sherlock’s conclusion about Dr.Watson and try to explain what the reasons of it were, how he knew it.
I know you're an Army doctor and you've been invalided home
from Afghanistan. You've got a brother worried about you,
but you won't go to him for help because you don't approve of him,
possibly because he's an alcoholic, more likely because
he recently walked out on his wife. And I know your therapist thinks
your limp's psychosomatic, quite correctly, I'm afraid. That's enough to be going on with,
don't you think?
Vocabulary:
Well, this is a prime spot. Must be expensive. – Прекрасное месторасположение.Должно быть, дорого.
Owes me a favour. – Услуга за услугу (лит.)
-Sorry, you stopped her husband
being executed? -Oh, no, I ensured it. – Простите, вы уберегли ее мужа от казни? – Напротив, ускорил ее.
Rubbish – хлам
А skull – череп
А mess – беспорядок
No point sitting at home when there's finally something fun going on! - Нет смысла сидеть дома, когда, наконец, начинается самое веселое!
Ex.7 Read the dialogues and try to suggest who the speakers were.
1)
A:What about these suicides, then, Sherlock? I thought that'd be right up your street. Three exactly the same.
B: Four. There's been a fourth. And there's something different this time.
A: A fourth?
B:Where?
C: Brixton, Lauriston Gardens.
B: What's new about this one? You wouldn't have come to me otherwise.
C: You know how they never leave notes? This one did.
2)
A:I'll make you that cuppa, you rest your leg.
B:Damn my leg! Sorry, I'm so sorry. It's just sometimes this bloody thing...
A:I understand, dear, I've got a hip.
B:Cup of tea'd be lovely. Thank you.
A:Just this once, dear, I'm not your housekeeper.
B:Couple of biscuits too, if you've got 'em.
A:Not your housekeeper!
3)
A:You're a doctor. In fact, you're an Army doctor.
B:Yes.
A:Any good?
B:Very good.
A:Seen a lot of injuries, then. Violent deaths.
B:Well, yes.
A:Bit of trouble too, I bet?
B:Of course. Yes. Enough for a lifetime, far too much.
A: Want to see some more?
B:Oh, God, yes.
4)
A:I'm a consulting detective. Only one in the world. I invented the job.
B:What does that mean?
A:It means when the police are out of their depth, which is always, they consult me.
B:The police don't consult amateurs.
Ex.8 Read an example of the deduction and remember your version about Sherlock’s conclusion. Was it right?
- When I met you for the first time yesterday, I said Afghanistan or Iraq. You looked surprised.
- Yes, how did you know?
- I didn't know, I saw. Your haircut, the way you hold yourself says military. But your conversation...
“Bit different from my day”... said trained at Barts - so Army doctor, obvious.
Your face is tanned... but no tan above the wrists. You've been abroad, but not sunbathing.
Your limp's bad when you walk, but you don't ask for a chair when you stand, like you've forgotten about it, so it's at least partly psychosomatic. That says the original circumstances
of the injury were traumatic.
Wounded in action, then. Wounded in action, suntan - Afghanistan or Iraq.
-You said I had a therapist.
-You've got a psychosomatic limp,of course you've got a therapist.
Then there's your brother. Your phone. It's expensive, e-mail enabled, MP3 player.
You're looking for a flatshare. You wouldn't buy this - it's a gift.
Scratches. Not one, many over time - it's been in the same pocket as keys and coins.
You wouldn't treat your one luxury item like this, so it's had a previous owner.
Next bit's easy. You know it already.
- The engraving?
- Harry Watson. Clearly a family member who's given you his old phone. Not your father, this is a young man's gadget. Could be a cousin, but you're a war hero who can't find a place to live.
Unlikely you've got an extended family, not one you're close to. So brother it is.
Now, who's Clara? Three kisses says it's a romantic attachment. The expense of the phone
says wife, not girlfriend. Must have given it to him recently,the model's only six months old.
Marriage in trouble, then -six months on he's given it away.If she'd left him, he would have kept it. Sentiment. No, he wanted rid of it. He left her. He gave the phone to you,
so he wants you to stay in touch.
You're looking for cheap accommodation,but not going to your brother for help.
That says you've got problems with him. Maybe you liked his wife or don't like his drinking.
- How can you possibly know about the drinking?
- Shot in the dark. Good one, though. Power connection - tiny little scuff marks round the edge.
Every night he plugs it into charge, but his hands are shaking.
You never see those marks on a sober man's phone, never see a drunk's without them.
There you go, you were right.
- I was right? Right about what?
- The police don't consult amateurs.
- That... was amazing.
- Do you think so?
- Of course it was. It was extraordinary, quite extraordinary
.
- That's not what people normally say.
- What do people normally say?
- Piss off!
Answer the questions:
Was Dr.Watson right about Sherlock’s features in his blog?
Did his mood change when he met Holmes?
What do you think about the deduction method of Sherlock Holmes? Is it possible to use in our real life?
Why does this character appeal million people nowadays?
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