Making Deductions: Sherlock Holmes, a Web Task

Sherlock Holmes was famous for his DEDUCTIONS and must have been the greatest fictional detective of his day. He certainly solved a lot of cases so he can't have been very bad at it...

1) Watch this presentation and make deductions in the past and in the present about the pictures:

• What is deduction?
• What are modal verbs?
• When do we use must? And can't, may or might?
• How do we make deductions about the past?

2) You are going to watch the first part of The Hound of the Baskervilles, a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in which Sherlock Holmes has to investigate a mysterious dog.

- Watch CLIP 1 and answer the following questions:

•  Did Sir Charles of Baskerville die of natural causes?
• According to the legend of the Baskerville hound, what happens to all the members of the Baskerville family?
• Does Sherlock Holmes believe in supernatural legends?

- Read about the legend and the characters HERE. Find out the meaning of the words in bold.

3) Try to solve the mystery as Sherlock Holmes would do. Prepare an oral presentation making deductions about what could have happened.

4) Read the complete summary HERE.