Worksheet: Around the world in 80 days

a) Identify the characters above.

b) Answer the following questions

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What is the nationality of Passepartout?

Why is he trying to escape from the police?
What did Passepartout steal? What does it symbolize?
What is a valet?
What would have happened if Fogg lost the bet?
Who was hired to stop Fogg and Passepartout to travel around the
world?

c) Complete the following text with the word/expressions below:

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Robbery
Bank of England
Royal Academy of Science
Thief

5. 80 days
6. Minister of Science
7. valet

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c) Fogg, a scientist accepted Lau Xing as his ________. At the
____________________, Lord Kelvin, insulted Fogg. There they
discussed the ________ of the ______________________.

Fogg said

that he was glad the bank was robbed because it was outdated
and said that the _______could be in China in little over a month,
which interested Lau Xing. Fogg placed a bet to see if it would be
possible (as his calculations said) to travel around the world in
___________. If he won, he would become _____________ in Lord
Kevins place.
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d) Answer the following questions:
1. Who is Monique? Where did Fogg and Passepartout meet her?
2. How did Monique, Fogg and Passepartout leave Paris?
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h) The statue of ___________is a parody of Rodins The Thinker made

to look like the Prince.
i) Extra information
j) The Thinker (French: Le Penseur) is a bronze sculpture by
Auguste Rodin, usually placed on a stone pedestal. The work
shows a nude male figure of over life-size sitting on a rock with
his chin resting on one hand as though deep in thought, and is
often used as an image to represent philosophy. There are about
28 full size castings, in which the figure is about 186 centimetres
(73 in) high, though not all were made during Rodin's lifetime and

under his supervision, as well as various other versions, several

in plaster, studies, and posthumous castings, in a range of sizes.
Rodin first conceived the figure as part of another work in 1880,
but the first of the familiar monumental bronze castings did not
appear until 1904.
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3. Why did Prince Hapi order Monique to stay?
4. Why did Lord Kevin order the British colonial authorities in India
to arrest Fogg and Passepartout?
5. How did the three manage to avoid the police in India?
e) Complete with the correct tense of the verbs given.
l) Once in China, Passepartout _________ (to lead) his friends to a
village, where they were happily received. They

_________ (to

spend) several days there, during which Fogg _______ (to discover)
that Passepartout is in fact Lau Xing . Fogg was disappointed by
this and more so by the revelation that Monique _______ (to know)
the truth for many weeks.
f) Answer the following questions.
1. Why did Fogg decide to continue alone?
2. It was in the desert that Monique, Fogg and Passepartout met the
Wright brothers. Who are they?
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n) EXTRA INFORMATION
o) The Wright brothers, Orville were two American brothers,
inventors, and aviation pioneers who are credited with inventing
and building the world's first successful airplane and making the
first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human
flight, on December 17, 1903. From 1905 to 1907, the brothers
developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing
aircraft. Although not the first to build and fly experimental

aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft

controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible.
3. Why did Fogg decided not to get the boat?
4. Fogg caught the next ship but he thought they were not going fast
enough. What did he ask the captain to do? What did he offer in
exchange?
5. Did Fogg win the bet?
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