THE HOLMES, BRITISH STYLE

Leo Messi

The Holmes have been continuing their visit to London. They’ve been in the British Museum; climbed Tower Bridge and gone to the Tower of London. They have driven by bus and by taxi and they’ve sailed through the Thames.

They are intensive days and they are taking profit of everything when they visit these emblematic places.

Yesterday, the family went to the Emirates Stadium to watch a football match between Arsenal and FC Barcelona. The Grandma was very happy with the final score and to celebrate it, she invited all the family to drink and dance in a private party in 221B, Baker Street where they were talking about Past Perfect and sharks, playing to guess characters and remembering Rosa’s TV appearances.

More information: Past Perfect Exercises

Today, the family has continued its English classes studying some passive forms and practising with a PET exam example.

More information: The Passive

Tomorrow, they are going to read another chapter of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and continue with passive forms.

More information: PET Samples

Arsenal, we're on your side
Our love we can not hide
Our hearts are open wide
To cheer you along the way

BRITISH CELEBRITIES (VIII): SHERLOCK HOLMES

Sherlock Holmes

Elementary, My Dear Watson

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional and bohemian character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish physician and writter. Holmes was the most prestigious detective in London at the end of the XIX Century thanks to his ability using forensic science (shoe and tire impressions, handwriting analysis, ballistics, and fingerprints) and logical reasoning for solving the most difficult cases. 

He doesn’t work alone. John Watson, a physician, is his partner. Both of them live at 221B Baker Street.

Sherlock Holmes is considered the most portrayed movie character by Guiness World Records with more than 70 actors playing him in over 200 films.

It is simplicity itself... My eyes tell me that on the inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting specimen of the London slavey.

More information: Sherlock Holmes Site