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ELEMENTARY

Round the World in Eighty Days

1 Open answers
2 a

journey – passport, port, railway,
timetable
money – bet,
a detective’s work – thief, warrant
the life of a rich man – club, servant,

b

an animal – elephant

a

building – club, temple

3 a

Right

b

Wrong – He says he is looking for a
quiet life.

c

Right

d

Possible

e

Wrong – He is simply too willing to talk.

f

Right

g

Right

h

Possible – Passepartout makes a
mistake, but it does not mean that Fix
can stop Fogg.

i

Wrong – The Times said that the part
of the railway from Rothal to Allahabad
was open, but it wasn’t.

j

Right – He is worried that Fogg will
lose the bet.

4 Open answers
5 engine – b

prison – a
bail – a

6 Open answers
7–13 Open answers

■ Communicative activities

Activities before reading the book

Open answers

Activities after reading a section

Chapters 1–4

Open answers

Chapters 5–8

1 Open answers
2 Passepartout

leave Hong Kong on the Carnatic at 8.00
p.m. on 7th November
arrive Yokohama on the morning of 13th
November
Fogg, Aouda and Fix
leave Hong Kong on the Tankadere at 3
p.m. the next day.
arrive Shanghai at 7.00
leave Shanghai on the General Grant
arrive Yokohama on the morning of 14th
November

Chapter 9–12

Open answers

Activities after reading the book

elephant – £2,000
train – We don’t know
ship – or the wood from it – $60,000 =
£12,000
tickets for all kinds of transport including
$8,000 = about £1,600 for ship to England
clothes for Aouda – We don’t know
a guide – We don’t know
bail – £2,000

Answers to Factsheet activities

Answers to Book activities

he had £1,000 left which he tried to give to
Aouda.

■ Student’s activities

Activities before reading the book

Open answers

Activities while reading the book
Chapters 1–4
1 (a) F (b) F (c) P (d) P (e) P (f) P (g) F

(h) P (i) F

2 (a) story (b) thief (c) detectives

(d) clothes (e) world (f) days
(g) timetable (h) things (i) pounds
(j) room (k) evening

3 Possible reasons

• he was a tall man
• he had expensive clothes
• he had a lot of money in his bag
• the money was in new banknotes

4 (a) Fogg

(b) Passepartout
(c) Fix
(d) a man from the railway
(e) Fogg
(f) Passepartout
(g) a young Indian from the village
(h) the guide/the young Indian
(i) Fogg
(j) Passepartout
(k) The guide

Chapters 5–8

1 (a) through

(b) in
(c) round
(d) inside
(e) on
(f) up
(g) next
(h) out
(i) with
(j) of
(k) to
(l) down
(m)over

2 Corrections are in

italics

.

(a) ‘The train journey to Calcutta is about

a

day

and half.’said the guide.

(b) Fogg took a

room

at the railway station

for Aouda.

(c) He sent Passepartout into the town for

clothes

for the young woman.

(d) Before they got on the train, Fogg paid

the

guide

.

(e) ‘That’s your money,’he said ‘ but

would you like the

elephant

?’

(f) Aouda was afraid of her

husband’s

family

.

(g) ‘I’ll take you to

Hong Kong

, ‘ said Fogg,

‘and you can stay there.’

(h) ‘Oh, thank you,’said Aouda. ‘I have

an

uncle

there.’

(i) The train got to Calcutta at 7.00 and

Fogg had five hours before the

train

left for Hong Kong.

3 Possible answers

(a) He was happy because it gave time for

the warrant to arrive.

(b) He was angry because bail means the

police do not keep you in jail while you
are waiting to tell your story – Fogg
could leave the country.

(c) He was happy because he didn’t think

Fogg would pay 2000 pounds.

(d) He was surprised and angry because

Fogg could leave the country and Fix
thought the 2000 pounds was part of
the Bank of England’s money.

4 (a) True. At the beginning of the chapter

Fix is not certain but later he is.

(b) True
(c) True
(d) False but Passepartout thinks this.
(e) False He didn’t tell him because he

didn’t want Fogg to think badly of
them.

(f) False The timetable said that but the

ship had a problem with one engine.

(g) False He didn’t live in Hong Kong any

more.

(h) True
(i) False Fix stopped him.
(j) True He thought this but he didn’t say

it at first, then he did.

(k) True.

Chapters 9–12

1 Possible answer

Because Fix wants Fogg to get back to
England so that he can use his warrant.

2 (a) (ii)

Because the Sioux Indians were
dangerous.

(b) (vi) Seven days.
(c) (i)

11th December.

(d) (iv) Because there were thousands of

buffaloes walking in front of the
train.

(e) (v)

Everybody’s money.

(f) (x)

They killed the train driver.

(g) (vii) Somebody had to get to the

engine and stop the train.

(h) (iii) Because the soldiers came from

Fort Kearney

(i) (ix) The Indians took him away but

Phileas Fogg and some soldiers
brought him back.

(j) (viii) ‘The China’

3 (a) (ii)

In an hour.

(b) (vi) To Bordeaux.
(c) (iii) No, I don’t take people.
(d) (vii) Yes, very fast. ‘The Henrietta’

does twelve miles an hour.

(e) (i)

For each person?

(f) (v)

Seven hundred and seventy
miles from Liverpool.

(g) (iv) Oh, yes. I’m only buying the

wood.

4 The correct order is:

(g) Fogg. Aouda and Passepartout left the

police station in Liverpool.

(i) The London train left Liverpool station.
(f) Fogg, Aouda and Passepartout arrived

at Liverpool station

(b) Fogg paid for a train to take him to

London.

(j) The train arrived in London at 8.50.
(e) Fogg told Aouda that he loved her.
(d) Fogg sent Passepartout to Mr. Wilson

at the church.

(h) Passepartout ran back from the church

and told Fogg that it was only
Saturday.

(c) Fogg ran to the Reform Club.
(a) Fogg arrived at the Reform Club just

before 8.45 on Saturday, 80 days after
leaving England.

Activities after reading the book

Open answers

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