Reading About Other Cultures

What are we learning today?

You will learn about a famous writer and a place in Britain. You will compare them with your own country.

Explanation

• Reading helps you learn about other cultures.
• Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
• He was a doctor, but he was more successful as a writer.
• He wrote 56 stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Doctor Watson.
• A moor is wild land with hills and few buildings.
• Holmes and Watson are still in films and TV programmes.

Examples

1. Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh.
2. The stories happen on a moor in England.
3. Kazakhstan has the steppe, a wide grassland.

Remember!

• Scotland and England are not the same.
• Conan Doyle was a writer, not a detective.

Check yourself

1. Where was Conan Doyle born?
2. Is a moor a city or wild land?