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VOCABULARY

gentleman: cavaller

servant: criat

talk: parlar

job: feina

thief: lladre

ship: vaixell

leave: marxar

pay: pagar

train: tren

Characters: personatges

Phileas Fogg: an English gentleman

Passepartout: his French servant

Mr. Stuart: Fogg’s friend at the club

Mr Fix: an English detective

Summary

Mr Fogg and his servant Passepartout travel from England to France by ship and from there to Italy by train and to Egypt by ship.

Mr Fogg wants to show his friend in the club that he can travel around the world in 80 days and win &20,000.

Mr Fix, a police detective, also travels on the same train and ships because he is looking for a thief.

Jules Verne is the writer of our novel “Around the world in 80 days”.

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This is the book we are reading this year. Remember you need it in november.

Around the world in 80 days

Jules Verne

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