SHERLOCK BBC 01E01 A STUDY IN PINK     WORKSHEET

Watch the beginning of the episode (link below) and answer the questions below:

1)  What can we see at the very beginning of the episode?

2) Actually, the blond man was

☐  killing civilians ☐ eating a hamburger remembering his past memories ☐ dreaming ☐ playing video games

3) When he wakes up, we see a mug with a crown, an apple and a gun, he ________________ (may/might/can/will/ can/must) belong to the police. And the scene _____________(may/might/can/will/ can/must) take place in the United Kingdom.

We then discover he has been seing a psychologist and London is the crime scene.

4)Fill in with the preterit or preterit continuous (bv-ing) 

The blond-haired woman and the man  ___________________ (talk) on the phone before he ___________  (take) a poison pill.

The next victim is a young adult who ______________________ (walk) in the rain right before the ______________ (kill himself).

The third victim   _________________________ (dance) , her life _______________ (be taken, passive voice).

5) Lt Letrade explains that the suicides ___________________ (may/might/can/will/ can/must) be linked because it was the same poison used.

6) The journalists all _______________________ texts saying “wrong” that is how they _______________ he had been lying.

7) Dr Watson is limping, he ______ (may/might/can/will/ can/must) have had an accident when he was fighting.

8) Sherlock ______________ (hire) Watson because he _____________________(work)  in the army as a doctor in Afghanistan.

9) Sherlock’s job ____________ be (may/might/can/will/ can/must) private detective.

10) When they ___________ (go) on the fourth crime scene, Sherlock guessed that the legist and the police officer _________________ (have an affair).

11) Jennifer Wilson -the pink-dressed woman- may have written either Rach which means or Rachel on floor. She __________________ (visit) London when she was killed.

The victim has been married for at least 10 years, she’s had lots of affairs since she has regularly removed her wedding ring

The killer _______________ (may/might/can/will/ can/must) have driven her there , he forgot that the suitcase was in the car. When Docteur Watson __________________________________ (come back) home, all the phones of the streets ______________ (rang).

When Watson ___________________ (arrive) at his new address 221b Baker Street, Sherlock ________________________ (apply his nicotine patches).

The murderer __________ have Jennifer W. ‘s phone. (may/might/can/will/ can/must)

When Sherlock ________________________ (think), Mrs Hudson _____________ (keep mentioning) the taxi.

Sherlocks understands it ______________(be) the taxi driver who killed the victims when they locate the GPS of the mobile phone.

If Sherlock takes the wrong pill, he ____________ die.

He desperately wants to discover the identity of the sponsor of the cabbie/serial-killer.

There is one mystery left to solve, who is the mysterious man Watson has met and who knows Sherlock very well.
Make your own hypothesis using the modal of your choice.
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Grammar Corner

Link the tenses with their use:

a)    Preterit                                               1) events that happened before past events

b)    past perfect (HAD +vb -EN)               2) to make a link between past and present

c)     preterit continuous (he was thinking) 3) for scientific facts or habits

d)    present simple                                               4) to describe something happening before your eyes

e)    present continuous 5) to describe a long action taking place before another brutal action or interrupted

f)      present perfect                                  6) to talk about past events that have no link with the present.