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Round the World in Eighty Days
[Penguin Readers Lever 5]
Penguin Readers is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders.
Penguin Readers is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders.
120 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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About the author
Jules Verne
6,333 books12k followersNovels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include
Journey to the Center of the Earth
(1864) and
Around the World in Eighty Days
(1873).
This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_V...
This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_V...
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April 18, 2024
i borrowed this book from my library for my sister and I read along with her as well 😂 such a fun story!!
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August 12, 2024Yy nie ocenię bo już to kiedyś czytałam po polsku ale noo.. na początku mi się strasznie dłużyło bo wiedziałam co się stanie ale książka fajna i wsm klasyk.. a pod koniec się wciągnęłam wsm dobrze bawiłam (aczkolwiek czytałam ją dość długo i nie chciało mi się do niej wracać) więc mam bardzo mieszane uczucia ++-
December 16, 2017
I give three stars to Palmer's retelling, otherwise, the story is tremendous.
March 24, 2022
La novela es atrapante una vez que llegas a la mitad, al comienzo de la misma se hace un poco repetitivo en torno a detalles insignificantes y tambien pesado. El final es muy emocionante y alegre.
August 15, 2020
Shrawan 31, 2077, Saturday
Round the World in Eighty Days - Michael Dean (adapted), Andy Hopkins (Editor), Jocelyn Potter (Editor), Jules Verne (2001)
[Penguin Readers Elementary (Level 2)]
Genre: EnglishGradedReaders/ Fiction/ Adventure
Pages: 43
Rating: 7.5/10
Theme: Challenge/ Love/ Relationships/ Imperialism/ Perseverance/ Honor/ Problem-Solving/ Morality
Opener:
“In 1872, the Reform Club in London's Pall Mall was a club for men only. Phileas Fogg went to the Preform Club every day. He left his house at 7 Savile Row at 11.30 in the morning and walked to the club. He had his lunch and his dinner there. He read the papers at the club, and he played cards. He left late in the evening and walked back to Savile Row. He went to bed at midnight.”
Summary:
Victorian-era Englishman Phileas Fogg proclaims before his fellow members of a London gentleman's club that he can circumnavigate the globe in a mere 80 days, further boasting that he will bet the princely sum of 20,000 pounds on the success of his endeavor. With his stalwart manservant Passepartout alongside, he goes forth on his adventure, pursued by a dogged Police Inspector who suspects Fogg of chicanery.
Final review:
Extremely fast-paced and equally enjoyable novel, Jules Verne’s most well-known piece of work is adapted very well given the page constraints.
Round the World in Eighty Days - Michael Dean (adapted), Andy Hopkins (Editor), Jocelyn Potter (Editor), Jules Verne (2001)
[Penguin Readers Elementary (Level 2)]
Genre: EnglishGradedReaders/ Fiction/ Adventure
Pages: 43
Rating: 7.5/10
Theme: Challenge/ Love/ Relationships/ Imperialism/ Perseverance/ Honor/ Problem-Solving/ Morality
Opener:
“In 1872, the Reform Club in London's Pall Mall was a club for men only. Phileas Fogg went to the Preform Club every day. He left his house at 7 Savile Row at 11.30 in the morning and walked to the club. He had his lunch and his dinner there. He read the papers at the club, and he played cards. He left late in the evening and walked back to Savile Row. He went to bed at midnight.”
Summary:
Victorian-era Englishman Phileas Fogg proclaims before his fellow members of a London gentleman's club that he can circumnavigate the globe in a mere 80 days, further boasting that he will bet the princely sum of 20,000 pounds on the success of his endeavor. With his stalwart manservant Passepartout alongside, he goes forth on his adventure, pursued by a dogged Police Inspector who suspects Fogg of chicanery.
Final review:
Extremely fast-paced and equally enjoyable novel, Jules Verne’s most well-known piece of work is adapted very well given the page constraints.
July 20, 2016
1, penguin level2
2, 120minutes
3, blond, rich, gentleman, marry, trip, diamonds, round
4, It doesn't know whether Phileas Fogg can go round the world in eighty days. And he starts to find twenty thousand ponds.
Everything will turn out for the best all the time! It tells me through this book.
5, this book is used own language of this story's characters. So I can feel like I'm in this world.
2, 120minutes
3, blond, rich, gentleman, marry, trip, diamonds, round
4, It doesn't know whether Phileas Fogg can go round the world in eighty days. And he starts to find twenty thousand ponds.
Everything will turn out for the best all the time! It tells me through this book.
5, this book is used own language of this story's characters. So I can feel like I'm in this world.
January 31, 2014
Awesome!!!!!!!
September 4, 2017
I liked very much the activities at the end of the book, It helped a lot with my vocabulary
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