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Structure Reasons Conflict Resolution

Sections or 1. Helen's Story 2. Holmes and Watson 3. Death in
paragraphs Visit the House the Night

People in charge Laura and Rosa Jesús, Felipe and Lorena Carlos and Toño

11. Exchange stories with another team. You should give them the short story you
selected in Activity 7 and they should give you theirs.

• Analyze the exposition and look for clues in the text, like what the story is about,
Comprehension strategies paying attention to the context. Look at the example. departamento
who the main characters are and what you think might happen.
• Try to find out the meaning of words you don’t know by
flat (n.):

The Speckled Band, by Arthur Conan Doyle (retold by Clare West)

Helen's Story

My name is Dr Watson and I am going to tell you about a
Narrator
difficult case when I was still living at my friend Sherlock Main
Holmes's flat in Baker Street in London. Very early one character
morning, a young woman, dressed in black, came to see us. She
looked tired and unhappy, and her face was very white. 'I'm
Mystery to afraid! Afraid of death, Mr Holmes!' she cried. 'Please help me! Why is she
session 5 She looks like 'Just sit down and tell us your story,' said Holmes kindly. What does it
solve
worried?
I'm not thirty yet and look at my grey hair! I'm so afraid!'
'My name is Helen Stoner,' she began, 'and I live with my
stepfather, Dr Grimesby Roylott, near a village in the country.
an old lady
His family was once very rich, but they had no money when my
stepfather was born. So he studied to be a doctor, and went mean?
out to India. He met and married my mother there, when my
sister Julia and I were very young. Our father was dead, Clue to the
Main you see.' meaning of
character
'Your mother had some money, perhaps?' asked “stepfather”
Sherlock Holmes.
'Oh yes, mother had a lot of money, so my stepfather
wasn't poor anymore.'

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