Lesson Two Waiting for the Police.ppt

Lesson Two Waiting for the Police Lesson Two Waiting for the Police * * Lesson Two Waiting for the Police Warm-up Activities Background Information Vocabulary Text Analysis Detailed Study of the Text Exercises ?     ?     ?     Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson go on a camping trip, set up their tent, and fall asleep. Some hours later Holmes wakes him up. “Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see.” Watson replies, :”I see millions of stars.” “What does that tell you?” Watson ponders for a minute. “ Astronomically speaking, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, it tells me that Saturn is in Leo. Timewise, it appears to be approximately a quarter past three. Theologically, it’s evident the Lord is all powerful and we are small and insignificant. Meteorologically, it seems we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you?” Holmes is silent for a moment, then speaks. “Watson, you idiot, someone has stolen our tent.” ?     ?     English novelist, playwright, and journalist, was born in London into literary circumstances. His father, Benjamin Farjeon, was a well-known novelist and he was the brother of the childrens writer Eleanor Farjeon and the playwright Herbert Farjeon. Although he was a descendant of Thomas Jefferson, Farjeon was named after his maternal grandfather, the American actor Joseph Jefferson. He was educated privately and at Peterborough Lodge. From 1910 to 1920 he did editorial work for the Amalgamated Press. ? Lesson Two Waiting for the Police Farjeons career as a fiction writer was long and prolific. With over eighty published novels to his credit, many in the mystery and detective genre, he enjoyed what the London Times obituarist called a deserved popularity for ingenious and entertaining plots and characterization. His early novel, Master Criminal, is a tale of identity reversal involving two brothers, on