Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Unit 9

B2 First · Listening Sentence Completion · Ready for B2 First 4th Edition Workbook, Macmillan Education Limited

You will hear someone giving a talk about the famous writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. For questions 1–10, complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.

stories when he was young.

The speaker remembers reading one of Conan Doyle's

The first Sherlock Holmes book appeared in

Conan Doyle lived and worked in the south-east of

The person who had the most effect on Doyle's writing was his

of Conan Doyle's short stories.

Sherlock Holmes is the hero in

Recent TV series about Sherlock Holmes take place in the

Sherlock Holmes dies in the story

Conan Doyle belonged to an organisation called

about a young girl who had supposedly photographed herself with fairies.

Conan Doyle wrote a famous

at his home.

Initially, Conan Doyle's body was buried in the

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