Around the World in Eighty Days: The Diary of Phileas Fogg

Extensive Reading
Name ____________________________________________________________________ No.: _______ Class: __________
Date: _____ /_____ /_____ Teacher _______________________________________________________________________

A. Match the sentences with the countries. Write letters a-d.

a) The USA b) India c) The UK d) Japan

1. Passepartout went into a beautiful temple and lost his shoes.

2. Phileas went to the circus.
3. They crossed a bridge by train. It fell down and crashed.
4. Detective Fix took Phileas to prison.

B. All the underlined parts of the sentences are wrong. Correct them.

1. Passepartout is Chinese. _____________________________

2. They went to Calcutta by train. __________________________
3. Phileas and Passepartout saved a girl named Aouda and she stayed in Calcutta. _____________________
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4. In Calcutta, Phileas and Passepartout went to court, but they didn’t go to prison because Passepartout
offered some food to the judge. ____________________________________________________________
5. Passepartout disappeared and Phileas found him in the temple. _____________________
6. Detective Fix wanted to arrest Phileas because he thought Phileas entered a temple with his shoes on.
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7. Passepartout asked Aouda to marry him. ________________; __________________; _______________
8. In the end, Phileas realised that the most important thing in the world is money and fame. ______________
______________

C. Answer the questions using your own words.

1. Phileas and his friend made a bet. What was it about? __________________________________________
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2. Why did they travel by elephant from Bombay to Calcutta? ______________________________________
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3. Why did Phileas think he had lost the bet? ___________________________________________________
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7.º ano – Ana Santos, Catarina Pedrosa, Clara Bugalhão (2022-2023)

Answer key

A.
1. b) | 2. d) 3. a) 4. c)

B. 1. French | 2. elephant | 3. continued the journey with Phileas and Passepartout | 4. Phileas paid a great amount of money to set
them free | 5. circus | 6. Phileas robbed the Bank of England | 7. Aouda; Phileas; her | 8. true love

C.
1. They bet that it was possible to travel around the world in 80 days.
2. They travelled by elephant from Bombay to Calcutta because the Great Indian Railway wasn’t finished yet.
3. He thought he had lost the bet because he thought it was Sunday, but it was in fact Saturday, as they had crossed the International
Date Line.

7.º ano – Ana Santos, Catarina Pedrosa, Clara Bugalhão (2022-2023)