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in Eighty Days
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 BEFORE READING
Match the words with the pictures.

balloon
bicycle
ca mel
car
elephant
horse and carriage
ship
train

2 The story happens in 1872. How do people move from country to country?

around all the way round world wh er e we all live; people live
in lots of difiere n! countri es in the
world
 Mr Phileas Fogg is an English
gentleman. He lives in London.
gentleman a man from a rich family
who does not need to work
2
He hasn't gota wife or children,
but he has got a French servant-
afternoon he reads there. In the evening
he eats there again. Then he talks with
his friends , and at midnight he goes
servant a person who wo rks for club a place where gentlemen meet
so meone rich
Passepartout /'prespa:, tu:/
Passepartout is happy. He wants a quiet But one evening, Fogg sees
job. something interesting in The
Times.
At the club Fogg's friends talk.
'That gentleman thief can't go far,' says Ralph.
'With trains and ships, today's detectives move fast.'
'But thieves can m ove fast too, ' Flanagan says.
bank people put money and expensive ship you use a ship to go across t he detective a special policeman
things here water
thief (p/ura/thieves) a person who
takes things without aski ng
3
 'Today you can go round the world in 'I'm leaving tonight,' answers They go to When their ship arrives in Suez, an English detective -
eighty days,' says Fogg. Fogg. 'Perhaps I can't do it, France. Then Mr Fix- is waiting. He's looking for the gentleman
Stuart. But then I pay you they take a train thief.
:L20,000.' to Italy, and a
ship to Port
Said in Egypt.

'Do it, and I pay you :L20,000,' says

Stuart.

The train for

France leaves
befare nine in the
evening. Fogg
must be bacl<: in
London by 21st

Port Sa id / ,p:l:t 'sa1d/ passport a book with yo ur na me and

photogr aph; you t ake it with yo u when
yo u vis it different countries

4 5
 Fix looks at
Passepartout.
'Where are you going?' he asks.
'Around the world,' says
Passepartout. 'But right now
telegram a very short letter that yo u
send very quickly
8
Fix takes him to a shop and leaves him
there.
Later he gets on the ship for Bombay
with Fogg and Passepartout.
station people get on and off trains
he re
It is 20th October. They First Fogg goes to the passport
all arrive in Bombay - office. Then he eats at the
two days early.
At 4.30 in the
afternoon, Fogg and
Passepartout leave the
ship. They want to get
a train across India to
Calcutta. It leaves at
8 o'clock.
Passepartout visits
the temple at
Malebar Hill ...
. . . but he doesn't
take off his shoes.
The priests get angry. They take his shoes and Passepartout runs away.
temple sorne people go he reto pray priest aman who works in a temp le
9
 Fogg and Passepartout get on the
train, but Fix stays in Bombay.
He is waiting for a telegram from
London.
In Kholby, Passepartout
gets sorne new shoes.
He also finds an
elephant to take them
to Allahabad.
railway a train moves on t his
buil d to make something li ke a
house ora r ailway
10
After three days the train stops. The The priests start the fire. Through the
railway from Kholby to Allahabad smoke Fogg sees something beautiful.
isn ' t ready. The prince stands up and takes the
princess out of the fire.
Sorne men are building the railway.
But there are 80 kilometres without
a railway between Kholby and come nearer. Fogg sees that
Allahabad. the man is not the prince. It
is Passepartout in the prince's
They stop near a temple in the village of Pillaji. clothes.
The old Indian prince is dead. His young wife, 'Quickly! Let's go!' says
the princess, must die with him in a big fire. Passepartout to Fogg, quietly.
Suddenly the priests see the prince's body on the fire. They see that the
man in the prince's clothes is not the prince, and they become angry.
woman!' says Fogg. Fogg, Passepartout and the princess leave very quickly on the elephant.
elepha nt a ve ry big anim al with a princess the wife of a prin ce clothes peopl e wea r th ese
long nose
fire t hi s is r ed and hot, and it burns
prince t he most im porta nt man in a
littl e country
11
 Fogg buys sorne European clothes for the At Calcutta station a Fix is in Calcutta. (Detectives must
princess. 'What a beautiful woman!' he policeman stops them. He m ove fast to find gentlemen thieves.)
thinks. takes them to see a judge. He's waiting in court, but Fogg and his
Mrs Aouda goes too. friends don't see him.

On the train going to Calcutta, she speaks

for the first time. 'My name's Mrs Aouda.
Thank you for helping me! But I don't
know what to do now. I can never go
home!'

'We can take you to Hong

Kong,' Fogg says.
'Thank yo u,' says Mrs
Aouda.
'I have a cousin there.'

buy to give money for something cousin the son (or daughter) of your judge a person who says when court a judge works here breaking the rules doing the things
father's (or mother's) brother (or something is right or wrong that people must not do
sister)

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 'You must go to prison for this,' says the judge. But Fogg gives two Passepartout wants to huy three tickets on the
thousand pounds to the court and they're free again. Carnatic. It leaves for Yokohama, in Japan, the
next morning. But at the ticket office he learns
that it's leaving early- that evening.

They get onto the

ship for Hong Kong. Passepartout meets Fix
Fix follows them, near the ticket office.
but Passepartout sees 'Come for a drink, ' says
him.
'Perhaps he's a
detective, ' he thinks. Fix tells Passepartout, 'I
'Perhaps he's working think your Mr Fogg is a
for Mr Stuart from the gentleman thief and I want
Gentleman's Club in to arrest him.'
London.' Passepartout doesn't want
to help Fix, but the detective
buys drink after drink.

learns that
her cousin
now lives
in Holland.
'Come with Passepartout goes to sleep on the table.
us to Euro pe,' 'Now he can't tell Fogg about the
Fogg says. Carnatic,' thinks Fix. 'It leaves tonight-
but without Fogg!'

prison a place where people must free not in prison follow to go after someone arrest to take so meo ne to court or
stay when they do somethin g wrong to prison

17
16
 Later Passepartout Next morning Fogg and Mrs
Aouda go to get on the Carnatic.
But it isn't there.
Fogg finds a small ship - the The Tankadere travels through
Tankadere - to go to Shanghai. storms ...
There they can get a big ship to
Yokohama.
'Can I go with you?' asks Fix.

Fix arrives. 'The Carnatic's on

its way to Japan,' he says. 'A.nd
the next ship to Yokohama

'Where's Passepartout?' asks Mrs

Aouda.
'I don't know,' says Fogg. 'But we
must go on without him. We must
find another ship!'

wake up to stop sleeping on its way going travel to go storm a lot of rain and very bad signal total k from ship to ship
weather

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 Passepartout arrives in Yokohama, but he has no money. He leaves the Their ship leaves for San Passepartout sees him there. 'Mr Fogg!' he
Carnatíc and finds work in Mr Batulcar's circus. 'I can go to America with Francisco in a few hours. says happily.
the circus,' he thinks. Befare they leave, Fogg
goes to the circus.

Fogg wants to take Passepartout At 6 o' dock in the evening Fogg,

with him. But first he must pay Passepartout and Mrs Aouda
Mr Batulcar. go onto the American ship. Fix
follows them.

inJapan.

The Carnatic is in Yokohama.

Fogg and Mrs Aouda go
onto the Carnatic. They find
Passepartout's name in the book
of passengers' names, but they
can't find Passepartout.

circus an exciting show passenger someone who travels on pay t o give money for something
a ship or train

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'Listen,' says Fix. 'I
now have papers
from London to
arrest Mr Fogg. But
I can' t stop him
now. It must be in
England. When we
get there . . .'
papers letters, usually from an
importan! per son
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Later Passepartout sees Fix on the ship. They walk into a meeting. Then they start fighting. One
'My master isn't a gentleman thief,' he says. 'Camerfield for judge!' shout the man wants to fight Fogg but Fix
people on the left. 'Mandiboy for stands in front of him and stops
judge!' shout the people on the right. him.
They arrive in San Fogg andMrs
Francisco in the morning. Aouda meet Fix
The New York train leaves in the street. 'I am
that evening. travelling to Europe
now. Can we travel
together?' he asks.
'Of course, '
meeting when a number of people shout to say loudly and an grily fight to hit someon e aga in and again
cometo tal k about som ethin g
importan!
27
 They cross one old bridge very fast and it falls into the river behind them. Fogg goes to look for He finds him and brings him back. But they
Passepartout. must wait until evening, until the next train to
NewYork.

'How can we travel fast over

the snow?' thinks Fix. On a arrive in
sledge with sails! Omaha.
There they
take a train
to NewYork.

They arrive in New York 45 minutes late!

Their ship - the China - is on its way to
Liverpool.

river wat er th at m oves through the ride to go on a hor se snow something soft. cold and white sledge something for travelling on sail thi s uses wind to help something
fall t o go down sud de nly
snow move
co untry in a long lin e

29
28
 The next morning, Fogg, Mrs Later, Fogg gives the sailors The ship arrives in Queenstown - in the 'Let's get off here,' says Fogg
Aouda, Passepartout and Fix money, and they agree to go south of Ireland- and there's no more to Mrs Aouda, Passepartout
leave on a small ship - the Henrietta - to Liverpool - not to France. wood on it. and Fix.
going to France.

They get on a train and tra\Tel

to Dublin. There they get a
fast ship to Liverpool.

sailor a ma n who works on a sh ip
agree to say 'yes '
32
lock to clase with a key
captain t he most importan! sa il or
on a ship
coal it is black; peop le use it to make
th e fire t hat moves old ships and
trai ns
wood th e hard pa rt of a t r ee
33
 In Liverpool Fix arrests Fogg at last, and takes him to In prison Fogg 'I'm sorry, Mr Fogg,' says Fix. Angrily Fogg punches Fix in the face.
prison. looks at his diary. 'The gentleman thief- James
Strand- is in prison. You're
free to gol'

watch. )There's time to go to

Londori on a fast train and
to be at my club by 8.45 this
evening,' he thinks.

The train arrives at ten minutes to nine. Fogg is

five minutes late for his meeting with Stuart.

diary a book where yo u write about

what happens every day punch to hit with your closed hand

34
35
 Fogg doesn't want to get to his club late, .so he Around the world in That afternoon Fogg tells Soon Passepartout returns.
goes home with Mrs Aouda and Passepartout. eighty days and five Passepartout. '1 want to marry 'Today' s the 21st December. When
minutes- he's the Mrs Aouda tomorrow, the 23rd you travel east around the world
loser! He has only December. Can you speak to the you get an extra day. You aren't
f:20,000 in the bank people at Marylebone church late for your meeting at the Club
and he must give it about it?' after all, but you must run.'
all to Stuart.

1
I'm sorry for
bringing you here,
toa poor man's
home,' he says to
Mrs Aouda the
next morning.
'Will you marry
me?' asks Mrs
Aouda.

poor not rich marry to make someone your Marylebone /'mo:hb;m/ church Christian people go here
husband or wife to pray

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 Around the World
in Eighty Days

'Today you can go round the world in eighty days,'

says Phileas Fogg. 'Do it, and 1 pay you f20,000,'
says his friend Stuart.
This is the beginning of one of Jules Verne's most
exciting stories. Phileas Fogg must get back to
London by December 21st or lose all his money.
With the help of his servant, Passepartout, Fogg
travels in many ways- from train to elephant- and
he has sorne surprising adventures on the way.

Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

lllustrated by Mark Draisey
Cover image courtesy of Getty lmages (elephant through arch/
Ed Freeman)

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Series Editors: Bill Bowler and Sue Parminter

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