Sherlock Holmes & The Adventure of the Man with the Twisted Lip 🕵 [999]
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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
3h 15m
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8 chapters
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How will Luke present this Sherlock Holmes episode and reading format?
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Hello listeners, welcome back to Luke's English Podcast. How are you doing today? I hope you're doing fine. So, back by popular demand, which means that lots of people have requested this, here is another Sherlock Holmes story on Luke's English Podcast. The aim of this episode is really just to let you enjoy listening to one of the original Sherlock Holmes stories... and to understand it as well. So that's my aim while I do this, to help you enjoy listening to this story and to understand it as well. The process is going to be this. I'll read the story to you twice. The first time I read the story, I'll just read the whole thing without stopping or pausing or explaining anything. So I'm just going to read the whole story...
once first just so that you can hear the whole thing uninterrupted and then when i've done that i will read the entire story again and i will pause to explain various words and details just to make sure you understand it a lot more clearly and also to give you the chance to learn some vocabulary from it too now doing that reading it and then reading it again and stopping and explaining lots of things that is going to make this episode potentially extremely long But so be it. Like I've said before, you could consider this to be a kind of audio book rather than a podcast episode. And when you think of it in those terms, a three-hour episode is nothing, right? It's just a... normal for an audiobook so the first time you listen to this story which I'm going to start in just a second the first time just listen to the story try to follow me and try to understand everything try to keep listening even if you feel lost and it is quite easy to feel lost
with stories like these because there is a lot of detail there's also a lot of mystery as well a lot of stuff happens that doesn't seem to make any sense it can be a bit mysterious and confusing with a lot of details and things like that it doesn't really all get concluded until the end when Sherlock Holmes explains everything so it's quite normal to feel a bit lost or a bit confused If you feel like you've just got no idea what's going on, my advice is continue listening. Keep listening, keep going, and certainly then I will explain absolutely everything for you. Like Sherlock Holmes, I will explain all the details when I go through the story again the second time, and then you can check what you've understood, and you can get also a deeper sense of the nuances and details.
and probably pick up some words and phrases in the process. This episode is going to be a marathon, I think, so let's get started. The PDF for this contains the story text, and that's it, basically. So you can download the PDF with the full story text. By the way... I have adapted the text very slightly myself just to get rid of certain words and phrases which are so old-fashioned that they're not really useful for you learning modern English that we can use today. But I didn't want to completely change the text because the original story is great. Um, But I've just modernized a few little details, basically changed a few words and phrases. But 95% of the text is the same as the original. So let's get started.
The story that I've chosen here is called Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Man with the Twisted Lip. Okay, the man with the twisted lip. So you can imagine a person with a lip on their face, top lip, bottom lip, which is twisted. Why would someone's lip be twisted? You can imagine someone might look quite extraordinary, quite ugly, quite striking with a twisted lip. I should say that this story begins with Watson going off on a little adventure of his own.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How will Luke present this Sherlock Holmes episode and reading format?
0:00–7:05
2
What happens in Watson’s opium-den rescue of Isa Whitney?
7:05–26:16
3
Why is Neville St. Clair’s disappearance mysterious and what evidence was found?
26:16–1:21:05
4
How does Holmes reveal the truth about the ‘man with the twisted lip’?
1:21:05–1:44:45
5
How does Watson discover Holmes in the opium den and what disguise does Holmes use?
1:44:45–1:48:44
6
What evidence and clues link Neville St. Clair to the opium den and the mysterious disappearance?
1:48:44–1:56:42
7
How did opium, disguise and social class shape the investigation and Neville St. Clair’s secret?
1:56:42–2:09:42
8
What is Holmes’s overnight deduction and how is the mystery resolved at Bow Street?
2:09:42–3:15:39
Speakers
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