Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne: Study Notes for Chapters 1-3, Lecture notes of English

Download Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne: Study Notes for Chapters 1-3 and more Lecture notes English in PDF only on Docsity! Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne ______________________________________________________________________________ CD Guide Chapters CD tracks Length 1. 2 4.59 2. 4 7.29 3. 6 4.52 4a. 8 finishes @ track 9, 1.57. 5.18 ‘There’s an elephant over there.’ 4b. 9 starts @ 1 minute 58 5.18 5. 11 4.37 6. 12 3.50 7. 13 6.30 8. 15 6.17 9. 18 3.50 10. 19 4.32 11. 20 5.00 12. 22 7.17 Round the World in Eighty Days Book/CD-Rom Pack by (author) Jules Verne, Andy Hopkins (Series Editor), Jocelyn Potter (Series Editor), (9781405884419), Longman Penguin Active Readers, Level 2 ...Classic / British English (Feb 2008) Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Chapter 1 Phileas Fogg and Passepartout 1. What year was it? 2. Could women go to the Reform Club? 3. Phileas Fogg went there every day. True False 4. What time did he leave his house? 5. Did he go by bus? 6. Did he have his breakfast at the club? 7. What did he do at the club? 8. What time did he go to bed? 9. Phileas Fogg was a _________ man and everything in his life had to be ________. 10. What temperature did his washing water have to be? 11. Why did his old servant have to go? 12. How old was the new servant? 13. What does his name, Passepartout, mean? 14. What kind of work did Passepartout do in Paris? 15. He was a _________ man. 16. When did he leave France? 17. What kind of life did he want to have? 18. Why did he want to work for Phileas Fogg? 19. What time was it? 20. What date was it? 21. What did Passepartout do after Phileas Fogg went out? 22. Fill in timetable 8 am 8.23 am 9.37 am 11.30 am 23. Why was Passepartout happy? Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Chapter 4a India 1. What did Phileas Fogg look at? 2. When was the Mongolia supposed to arrive in Bombay? 3. How many days early were they? 4. What time did the train to Calcutta leave Bombay? 5. Where did Detective Fix go? 6. Detective Fix needed a ______________ to take Phileas Fogg back to England. 7. Did he get it? 8. Passepartout visited a big temple, but he made a big mistake. What was it? 9. What happened? 10. What time did he arrive at the station? 11. What had he lost? 12. Was Detective Fix at the station? 13. It was just a short train trip. True False 14. Why did the train stop at Rothal? 15. Fogg showed the railwayman the newspaper article saying “The railway between Rothal and Allahabad is open now.” The man answered: “ _____ ____________ ______ __________.” 16. Allahabad was 50 miles away. There were two ways to get there. On _______ or on a ________. 17. When they reached the village, however, all the _____________ were taken. 18. Passepartout saw something that could take them to Allahabad. Draw a picture of this. Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Chapter 4b India 1. Who was smiling? 2. At first, Phileas Fogg offered to hire the elephant for ________ _________ an hour. 3. In the end, how much did it cost? 4. However, now they needed a ____________ . 5. What time was it when they stopped for the night? 6. What time did they start the next morning? 7. What time did they get near Allahabad? 8. Suddenly, they heard _______________ and _________ ________________. 9. They hid in the thickest ____________ . 10. What did the guide say? 11. What did they see through the trees? 12. Then they saw a beautiful __________ _____________. 13. The guide said that she was the dead man’s ___________. 14. What was going to happen to her the next day? 15. Did this woman want to die with her husband? 16. Phileas Fogg decided to rescue her. What did the other men say? The guide Passepartout 17. What did Phileas Fogg say after looking at the timetable? 18. Where were the people going to take the dead man and his young wife? 19. What was her name? 20. When would the guide help them to rescue her? Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Chapter 5 Aouda 1. What was the noise? 2. What could they see? 3. Some men were on guard. What were they carrying? 4. Where was the young woman? 5. Where will they put the young woman in the morning? 6. Did Phileas Fogg and the guide have a plan? 7. Where was Passepartout? 8. Phileas Fogg wanted to stop them, but the guide said: “Get down. _______ ________ _______ ________”. 9. Suddenly who stood up? 10. What did he do? 11. How many people were on the elephant riding away? 12. Who was asleep? 13. What time did they arrive in Allahabad? 14. How long would it take for the train to get to Calcutta? 15. What did Phileas Fogg give the guide? 16. Was the guide happy? 17. What was Aouda afraid of? 18. Phileas Fogg said he would take her to ________ ________. 19. Aouda was happy _____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 20. What time did the train arrive in Calcutta? 21. How long was it before the ship departed? Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Chapter 8 To Japan? 1. What were Phileas Fogg and Aouda doing? 2. Who seemed to have disappeared? 3. When they went to the port, who did they meet? 4. Did he tell them the truth? 5. However, Fogg decided to look for another ________ . 6. Did he find one? 7. The seaman said the ship for San Francisco leaves from Shanghai, then goes to ___________. 8. Is Shanghai closer to Hong Kong than Yokohama? 9. When does the ship for San Francisco leave Shanghai? 10. How many days do they have to get to Shanghai? 11. When can they start? 12. How much money did Fogg give the seaman? 13. Aouda and Phileas Fogg were worried about ________________ . 14. Who was on the little boat when it started on the journey to Shanghai? 15. At first the little boat made good progress but then there was too much _______ . 16. Then it started to __________ . 17. The weather was _____________ __________ . 18. Fix was ___________ and very _______________ . 19. That night the wind and rain got worse and Aouda __________ . 20. Because the weather was so bad they had to head for _____________. 21. The next day the weather was _____________. 22. What did they see at 7 o’clock when they were three miles from Shanghai? 23. They were too late. Their ship had already ______ . 24. But Phileas Fogg said to the captain ______ _______ ________. Say we need help. 25. What had happened to Passepartout? Write notes about what you hear. Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Chapter 9 To San Francisco 1. What did the captain of the big American ship do when the small boat asked for help? 2. How much did Phileas Fogg pay for three tickets to San Francisco? 3. Where was the first stop? 4. When did they arrive there? 5. What did Fogg and Aouda do? 6. Where did they look on the way back to the port? 7. Who did they find? 8. What did Detective Fix do in Yokohama? 9. The warrant was there, but there was a problem. What was it? 10. When Passepartout saw Fix on the boat the next day, what did he do? 11. Did Detective Fix still think Phileas Fogg was a thief? 12. However, Fix said he would _______ Mr Fogg ______ to ________. 13. Why? 14. Did Passepartout want to be friends with Detective Fix? 15. When did the ship arrive in San Francisco? Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Chapter 10 Across America 1. What time did the train to New York leave San Francisco? 2. What did Phileas Fogg and Aouda do in San Francisco? 3. What did Passepartout buy? 4. Why? 5. Phileas Fogg didn’t understand why Fix was there. True False 6. How long did the journey across America take? 7. When did they have to catch a ship to Liverpool? 8. How many buffaloes did they see out of the window on the first day? 9. How long did the train have to wait for the buffaloes? 10. What did they hear the next morning? 11. What happened to the train driver? 12. Instead of going ___________, the train went ______________. 13. Who said he would stop the train? 14. Was he successful? 15. How many people did the Indians take away with them? 16. One of them was ________________. 17. Aouda started to ______, but Phileas Fogg said to her “ I’ll _____ ______ ________ ”. 18. How many soldiers did the captain give Phileas Fogg? 19. It was very hot. True False 20. Time passed. They did not come back that day or ______ _______ ________ . 21. What happened to the train? 22. What happened the next morning? 23. They had a big problem. What was it? Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Chapter 1 Phileas Fogg and Passepartout 1. 1872 2. no 3. True 4. 11.30 5. no 6. no 7. read the papers, played cards 8. midnight 9. cold right 10. 31 degrees 11. brought water 30 degrees 12. around 30 13. can open any door 14. fireman 15. strong 16. 1867 17. quiet 18. PF is the quietest man in Britain 19. 11.29 20. 2nd October 1872 21. went into every room, found his room and a timetable 22. 8 am PF got up, 8.23 bring tea, 9.37 bring washing water, 11.30 PF to reform club 23. This was the right job for him. Chapter 2 The Bet 1. 6.10 2. playing cards 3. newspaper story 4. Bank 55,000 5. the Bank of England 6. tall, expensive clothes 7. was 8. you could go round the world more quickly 9. to Suez railway and ship 7 to Bombay ship 13 to Calcutta railway 3 to Hong Kong ship 13 to Yokohama ship 6 to San Francisco ship 22 to New York railway 7 to London ship and railway 9 10. no 11. 20,000 pounds 12. five 4,000 pounds 13. Wednesday 2nd 21st 8.45 14. 7.25 15. 7.50 16. not on the timetable 17. leaving in 10 minutes, going round the world 18. 20,000 pounds 19. five friends 20. I am following the bank thief, Phileas Fogg, send warrant to Bombay Chapter 3 Detective Fix 1. 9th Oct 2. looking for the thief 3. stamp passport 4. Egypt Africa 5. Paris 6. clothes 7. lunch 8. lunch 9.52 9. 11.52 10. 2 hours 11. each new country 12. Change my watch! Never! 13. shops 14. Where going 15. Round the world. 16. Yes 17. new bank notes buys lots of things 18. to make the ship go faster 19. the Bank of England thief 20. Bombay Chapter 4a India 1. the timetable 2. 22nd October 3. 2 days 4. 8 o’clock 5. to the police 6. warrant 7. No 8. He didn’t take off his shoes. 9. 3 men in orange clothes hit him, threw him to the floor, took his shoes 10. 7.55 11. shoes, hat, bag of clothes 12. Yes 13. False 14. no railway line 15. The paper is wrong. 16. foot horse 17. horses 18. elephant Chapter 4b India 1. man with elephant 2. 10 pounds an hour 3. 2,000 pounds 4. guide 5. 8 pm 6. 6 am 7. 4 pm 8. singing loud music 9. trees 10. It is a dead man. 11. a lot of people, men in orange clothes, women and children 12. young women 13. wife 14. They would put her on the fire with her husband. 15. No 16. guide: think before you try that, these people are dangerous; Passepartout: the bet 17. 1 day early 18. temple 2 miles away 19. Aouda 20. when it gets dark Chapter 5 Aouda 1. singing and shouting 2. a white temple in the dark night 3. guns 4. inside the temple 5. on the fire 6. No 7. don’t know/ not there 8. They will kill us. 9. the old man 10. took the young woman in his arms 11. 4 12. Aouda 13. nearly 10 am 14. 1 day, 1 night 15. the elephant 16. Yes 17. her husband’s family 18. Hong Kong 19. she had an uncle in Hong Kong 20. 7 am 21. 5 hours Chapter 6 Calcutta 1. the passport office and the ship 2. Are you Phileas Fogg? Is this your servant? Follow me please. 3. a large room with a big cupboard 4. men from the Malabar temple 5. Passepartout’s shoes 6. Detective Fix 7. Detective Fix 8. wearing shoes in the temple 9. bad 10. Yes 11. 1,000 pounds each 12. Fix. He thought Fogg won’t pay 2,000 pounds. 13. Can I have my shoes? 14. the port 15. Fix Chapter 7 Hong Kong 1. Yes 2. the warrant 3. following us Why 4. the 5 men from the reform club 5. True 6. winning the bet 7. bad 8. No. 24 hours late 9. catching the ship, the Carnatic 10. No 11. in Holland 12. come to Europe 13. buy three tickets to Yokohama 14. Yes 15. No The warrant was in the post, not in Bombay 16. 8 pm 17. to have a drink 18. put something in Passepartout’s drink 19. Passepartout fell asleep and Fix left him in the bar.