Round the World in

Eighty Days

by Jules Verne
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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 2 The Bet
1. What time was it?
2. What was Phileas Fogg doing?
3. What were they talking about?
4. A thief walked into the __________ of England and took ____________ pounds.
5. Where did one of Phileas Fogg’s friends work?
6. What did the thief look like?
7. One man said: “The world is a very big place.” Phileas Fogg replied: “It _____ a big place.”
8. What did he mean?
9. Fill in the table with the missing information.

From where to where How How many days

London to Suez railway and ship 7
Suez to Bombay
Bombay to Calcutta
Calcutta to Hong Kong
Hong Kong to Yokohama
Yokohama to San Francisco
San Francisco to New York
New York to London

10. Did Stuart think that Phileas Fogg could go round the world in 80 days?
11. How much money did Phileas Fogg bet that he could do it?
12. The __________ friends all bet ________ pounds that he couldn’t do it.
13. Phileas Fogg said: Today is _____________, _____ October. So I have to be back in this room in
the Reform Club, on Saturday, _____ December. At ___________ in the evening.
14. At ____________, Phileas Fogg said goodnight to his friends.
15. What time did he arrive home?
16. Why was Passepartout surprised to see Mr Fogg?
17. What did Phileas Fogg tell him?
18. How much money was in the bag?
19. Who were at the station to see them off?
20. Some days later, the police received a letter from Detective Fix. What did it say?
Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Chapter 3 Detective Fix
1. What was the date?

2. What was Detective Fix doing?

3. When Mr Fogg got off the ship he had to get a _______ in his ____________.

4. Later Detective Fix met Passepartout in the town and told him he was in Suez, _________,

__________.

5. Passepartout was surprised because that morning he had been in __________.

6. What did Passepartout have to buy?

7. Fix said: You’ve got time for shopping and for _____________.

8. “____________” he said. “It’s ____________ in the morning.

9. However, in fact, the time was ______________.

10. How many hours behind Suez time is London time?

11. Fix said that each time he went to ____ _______ ___________ he would have to change his

watch.

12. What did Passepartout reply?

13. After 5 minutes they came to the ________.

14. Fix asked Passepartout: “____________ is Mr Fogg __________ ?

15. Passepartout replied: “ ___________ ______ ____________”.

16. Does Passepartout think his master is rich?

17. Why?

18. Why did Phileas Fogg give a lot of money to the captain of the Mongolia?

19. Who did Detective Fix think Phileas Fogg was?

20. Detective Fix boarded the ship and followed Phileas Fogg to __________ .
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 6 Calcutta

1. Where did they want to go first after they left the station?

2. What did the policeman say?

3. When they arrived at the police station, where did the policeman take them?

4. Who were the three men who came in?

5. What was one of them carrying?

6. Who had brought the three men to Calcutta?

7. Who was in the big cupboard in the room?

8. Why was Passepartout in trouble with the Indian police?

9. How did he feel about this?

10. Was Phileas Fogg allowed bail?

11. How much was it?

12. Who was happy and why?

13. What did Passepartout ask the three men?

14. Where did they go when they had paid the bail?

15. Who followed them?

Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Chapter 7 Hong Kong
1. Did Aouda like Phileas Fogg?

2. Detective Fix was on the ship too. What was he thinking about?

3. When Passepartout noticed that detective Fix was on the ship, he asked himself:

“Is he ________________ ____ ? _______ ?”.

4. Who did he think Fix was working for?

5. Passepartout felt angry. True False

6. What was important to him now?

7. What was the weather like?

8. Did they arrive in Hong Kong on time?

9. What was Phileas Fogg worried about?

10. Did Phileas Fogg find Aouda’s uncle?

11. Where was her uncle?

12. What did Phileas Fogg suggest to Aouda?

13. What did Mr Fogg tell Passepartout to do?

14. Was Passepartout happy?

15. When Passepartout went to the ship to buy the tickets, he saw Detective Fix.

Was Detective Fix happy?

Why or why not?

16. What time was the ship going to leave Hong Kong for Yokohama?

17. What did Fix ask Passepartout when he left the ship after buying the tickets?

18. What did Fix do to stop them leaving on the boat to Yokohama?

19. What happened next?

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 11 Across the Atlantic
1. What did Phileas Fogg look for in New York?

2. When was the captain of the Henrietta leaving?

3. Was he a friendly man?

4. Did he want to take them?

5. How fast could the Henrietta go?

6. What was the captain’s name?

7. How much did Phileas Fogg pay him?

8. Who was the captain of the ship the next day?

9. Where was the real captain?

10. There were two reasons why the seamen agreed to Fogg’s plan. They were:

1.
2.

11. Was Aouda happy? How about Passepartout?

12. Did the Henrietta move quickly?

13. One of the seamen had an idea to make the ship go more quickly. What was it?

14. The captain was very angry. He wanted to _______ Phileas Fogg.

15. How much did Phileas Fogg pay for the ship? ___________ dollars, _________ pounds.

16. What time did they arrive in Liverpool?

17. What did Detective Fix do at 11.41?

Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Chapter 12 The End of the Journey
1. Where was Phileas Fogg?

2. What time was it?

3. What time did he have to be in the Reform Club?

4. What did Detective Fix say at 2.33?

5. What did Phileas Fogg do to Detective Fix?

6. Aouda, Passepartout and Phileas Fogg ran to the train station, but they were too ______ . The train
wasn’t _______ .

7. When they arrived in London it was _______ pm. Fogg was _____ minutes late.

8. Aouda and Passepartout were unhappy that Fogg had lost the ______ and most of his ___________.

9. At 7.30 Phileas Fogg asked Aouda if she was ____________ about coming to England.

10. Was she?

11. Phileas Fogg wanted to give Aouda some ____________.

12. What did she say?

13. Phileas Fogg looked into her ___________ _________. There was ________ in them.

14. What did Phileas Fogg want Passepartout to arrange for the next day?

15. What was the next day?

16. What time did Passepartout come running back?

17. What did he tell them?

18. How long did Phileas Fogg have to get to the Reform Club?

19. How had they made the mistake?

20. Phileas Fogg’s friends thought they would win the bet. True False

21. Were they happy? Why?

22. A very short moment before 8.45 Phileas Fogg opened the door of the Reform Club and said:
“__________ ___ ____ , ____ _________”.

23. Did everyone live happily ever after?

Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Chapter 1 Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Chapter 3 Detective Fix

1. 1872 1. 9th Oct

2. no 2. looking for the thief
3. True 3. stamp passport
4. 11.30 4. Egypt Africa
5. no
5. Paris
6. no
7. read the papers, played cards
6. clothes
8. midnight 7. lunch
9. cold right 8. lunch 9.52
10. 31 degrees 9. 11.52
11. brought water 30 degrees 10. 2 hours
12. around 30 11. each new country
13. can open any door 12. Change my watch! Never!
14. fireman 13. shops
15. strong 14. Where going
16. 1867 15. Round the world.
17. quiet
16. Yes
18. PF is the quietest man in Britain
19. 11.29
17. new bank notes buys lots of things
20. 2nd October 1872 18. to make the ship go faster
21. went into every room, found his room and a 19. the Bank of England thief
timetable 20. Bombay
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 4a India

Chapter 2 The Bet 1. the timetable

2. 22nd October
1. 6.10 3. 2 days
2. playing cards 4. 8 o’clock
3. newspaper story
5. to the police
4. Bank 55,000
5. the Bank of England
6. warrant
6. tall, expensive clothes 7. No
7. was 8. He didn’t take off his shoes.
8. you could go round the world more quickly 9. 3 men in orange clothes hit him, threw him to the
9. floor, took his shoes
to Suez railway and ship 7 10. 7.55
to Bombay ship 13 11. shoes, hat, bag of clothes
to Calcutta railway 3 12. Yes
to Hong Kong ship 13 13. False
to Yokohama ship 6 14. no railway line
to San Francisco ship 22 15. The paper is wrong.
to New York railway 7 16. foot horse
to London ship and railway 9 17. horses
10. no 18. elephant
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 4b India Chapter 6 Calcutta

1. man with elephant 1. the passport office and the ship

2. 10 pounds an hour 2. Are you Phileas Fogg? Is this your servant? Follow
3. 2,000 pounds me please.
4. guide 3. a large room with a big cupboard
5. 8 pm 4. men from the Malabar temple
6. 6 am 5. Passepartout’s shoes
7. 4 pm 6. Detective Fix
8. singing loud music 7. Detective Fix
9. trees 8. wearing shoes in the temple
10. It is a dead man. 9. bad
11. a lot of people, men in orange clothes, women and 10. Yes
children 11. 1,000 pounds each
12. young women 12. Fix. He thought Fogg won’t pay 2,000 pounds.
13. wife 13. Can I have my shoes?
14. They would put her on the fire with her husband. 14. the port
15. No 15. Fix
16. guide: think before you try that, these people are
dangerous; Passepartout: the bet
17. 1 day early
18. temple 2 miles away Chapter 7 Hong Kong
19. Aouda
20. when it gets dark 1. Yes
2. the warrant
3. following us Why
Chapter 5 Aouda 4. the 5 men from the reform club
5. True
1. singing and shouting 6. winning the bet
2. a white temple in the dark night 7. bad
3. guns 8. No. 24 hours late
4. inside the temple 9. catching the ship, the Carnatic
5. on the fire 10. No
6. No 11. in Holland
7. don’t know/ not there 12. come to Europe
8. They will kill us. 13. buy three tickets to Yokohama
9. the old man 14. Yes
10. took the young woman in his arms 15. No The warrant was in the post, not in Bombay
11. 4 16. 8 pm
12. Aouda 17. to have a drink
13. nearly 10 am 18. put something in Passepartout’s drink
14. 1 day, 1 night 19. Passepartout fell asleep and Fix left him in the bar.
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 8 To Japan? Chapter 10 Across America

1. shopping 1. 6 pm
2. Passepartout 2. got a stamp in passport
3. an Englishman (Fix) 3. guns
4. No 4. The Sioux Indians were dangerous.
5. ship 5. True
6. Yes 6. 7 days
7. Yokohama 7. 11th December
8. Yes 8. thousands
9. 11 November at 7 pm
9. 3 hours
10. 4
10. Indians, guns, shouts
11. in 1 hour
12. 200 pounds
11. got killed
13. Passepartout. 12. slower faster
14. Aouda, Fogg and Fix 13. Passepartout
15. wind 14. Yes
16. rain 15. 3
17. very bad 16. Passepartout
18. afraid unhappy 17. cry get him back
19. fell 18. 30
20. port/China/Shanghai 19. False
21. better 20. the next night
22. a big American ship 21. It left without them.
23. left 22. Fogg, Passepartout, 2 others and soldiers came
24. use the radio back
25. - on the Carnatic, Fix left him in the bar asleep, 23. 20 hours behind schedule would miss the boat
head hurt, walked to ship, fell down, woke up on
ship, asked for PF and Aouda, not there, kill Fix,
no money, ate all food, arrived Yokohama

Chapter 9 To San Francisco Chapter 11 Across the Atlantic

1. stopped 1. a fast ship
2. 550 pounds 2. in an hour
3. Yokohama 3. No
4. 14 November, am 4. No
5. looked for Passepartout 5. 12 miles per hour
6. gardens 6. Speedy
7. Passepartout 7. $2,000
8. went to the police 8. Fogg
9. couldn’t use it in Japan or America 9. locked in his cabin
10. hit him 10. They hated the captain and Fogg gave them
11. Yes money.
12. help go England 11. No Yes
13. He could use the warrant in England. 12. Yes
14. Never! 13. burn more wood
15. 3rd December 14. kill
15. 60,000 12,000 pounds
16. 11.40
17. arrested Fogg
Chapter 12 The End of the Journey

1. police station
2. 2 o’clock
3. 8.45
4. He had made a mistake.
5. hit him
6. late there
7. 8.50 5
8. bet money
9. unhappy
10. No
11. money
12. She didn’t want money. She wanted to be his
wife.
13. beautiful eyes love
14. wedding
15. Monday
16. 8.35
17. tomorrow was Sunday
18. 10 minutes
19. time changes
20. True
21. No. They didn’t really want to win.
22. Here I am, my friends.
23. Yes