Around the World In Eighty Days –

Chapter 2: The Wager

By: Jules Verne

Complete the summary by filling in the empty spaces with the words

given below

CLOZE PASSAGE

butler travel supper robbery

bridge newspaper

gentleman

£4,000

Phileas Fogg left his new (1) ………. at the house and made his way to the Reform Club. He had his lunch and later his (2)………. Mr. Fogg then moved to the Reading Room where he was joined by five other gentlemen. They were Andrew Stuart, an engineer, John Sullivan and Samuel Fallentin who owned the newspapers, Thomas Flanagan, a landowner and Ralph Gauthier who worked for the bank of England. The men were his usual partners at (3)………, a card game.

They were discussing about the (4)……… of £55,000 that occurred three days before at the Bank of England. It was reported that the crime had been committed by a (5) ………. Thomas pointed out that the situation was in favour of the robber as he would have escaped to the other countries as the world was wide enough. Mr. Fogg indicated that the world was big enough once but had become smaller as a person could (6)………. around the world in eighty days. Andrew was not convinced when John revealed that the journey could be made in eighty days as stated in the (7)……….

Andrew then placed the amount of (8) ………. as a bet that the journey was impossible. Mr. Fogg then agreed by placing the amount of £20,000 and asked the other gentlemen if they would accept. The five gentlemen agreed to the amount.

Answer the following questions based on

Chapter 2

CONTEXTUAL ASSESSMENT

1. What did Mr. Fogg do right after breakfast? He read ………………………….

2. Who was Thomas Flanagan? He was a ………………………..

3. Here did the robbery take place? It happened at ………….…….

4. What did Thomas Flanagan’s opinion regarding the robber getting away? Mr. Fogg felt …………….…………

5. What was Mr. Fogg’s opinion about the world? Mr. Fogg said that ………………….

6. What was Mr. Fogg’s opinion about the amount of time it would take to travel around the world? Mr. Fogg said that …………………

7. How much was the bet put forward by Andrew Stuart? He put the amount of …………….

CLOZE PASSAGE

CONTEXTUAL ASSESSMENT

1.butler2.supper3.bridge4.robbery5.gentlema

n6.travel7.newspap

er8.£4,000

1.the newspaper2.a landowner3.the bank4.the world is big enough to hide

a robber5.that the world was getting

smaller6.the world could be travel in

eighty days or less7.£ 4,000 as a bet that Mr. Fogg

was not able to complete the trip in eighty days

Answers

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Yours, Po Po Tun

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