Class Assignment on Inventions: Which did you like best?

Did you know this about the British?

Round the world in eighty days

To start you thinking:

If you had to travel round the world in 80 days,
1. starting from your nearest big city, which route would you take?
2. what type of transport would you choose?
3. which part of the journey would be most difficult, do you think, and why?
Chapter 1

1. What was Phileas Fogg like? What were his routines?
2. Why did he dismiss his servant?
3. What did Passepartout do in France? What did his name mean?
4. What things tell you that Phileas Fogg was a man who was fond of accuracy?
5. Speak about the conversation about the bank robbery.
6. Why did Phileas want to travel around the world in 80 days?
7. What was the bet?
8. Why did Phileas Fogg want his passport to be signed in different places?

Chapter 2: Fix, the detective

1. Who were the two men waiting for the Mongolia at the Suez canal? What were they talking about?
2. What was Fix’s plan? Why? What did he think?
3. Speak about the conversations between Fix and Passepartout?

Chapter 3: The train to Allahabad

1. What happened when they reached Bombay?
2. What happened to Passepartout in a temple in Bombay?
3. What did Fix decide to do? Why?
4. Who’s Sir Francis Cromarty? What did he talk about with Passepartout?
5. And with Mr Fogg?
6. Why did the train stop at Kholby?
7. Why did Mr Fogg have to resort to an elephant? Was it easy to get it?
8. How did they travel with the elephant?
9. Why did the travelers have to hide? What did they see?

Chapter 9: Mr. Fogg misses the boat

1.       What did Aouda and Mr Fogg do before going to the port to take the Carnatic?

2.       Why couldn’t they take the Carnatic?

3.       Why had the Carnatic left before it was expected?

4.       And the next steamer? How did Fix and Fogg feel about it?

5.       What did Mr Fogg take to go to Yokohama? What was the offer to John Bunsby?

6.       What did the sailor of the boat suggest doing?

7.       What was the offer John Bunsby accept? Did Mr. Fogg pay?

8.       Who went with them on the Tankadere?how did they feel? Why?

9.       What kind of man was John Bunsby?

Chapter 10: The Storm

1.       What were Fix’s, Aouda’s and Mr. Fogg’s thoughts when they started the journey in the Tankadere? How did they feel?

2.       What did Fix tell Mr Fogg?

3.       What was the weather like during the journey?

English is a crazy language, do you agree?

New Edmodo password

Dear students,

Due to the fact that we have a new classmate in our group, I reset the password for the Edmodo platform, this is the new code you'll have to introduce:

48ep4b

Hope to see all of you participating in this second semester!

Alejandra.