6.2
IMPACT
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SPEAKING AND LISTENING
1
Which films, books, or characters have had an
impact on you? Why?
2
6.2
Listen to three people discussing the question
in Exercise 1 and answer these questions for each
person.
1
What is the film or book?
2
Who are the main characters or actors?
3
Does the speaker say if the film is based on a book?
4
What does the speaker say about preferring the film
or the book?
3
Listen again. Take notes on why the speakers like
the films, books or characters. Compare your notes
with a partner.
4
6.3
Listen to another person describing a book.
1
Why does the speaker prefer the earlier film?
2
How has the writer been influenced by the book?
3
What impact did the book have when it was first
published?
5
Listen again and match the pairs of words.
1
epic
a
line
2
overcome
b
landmasses
3
fellow
c
problems
4
run out of
d
interest
5
finishing
e
journeys
6
cross
f
fuel
7
vast
g
the International date line
8
promote
h
passenger
READING
6
Read the extracts from
Around the World in 80 Days
and answer the questions.
1
Who are the main two characters in these extracts?
2
Do you think the events in the extract take place at
the start or the end of the book? Why?
3
What are the two characters carrying as they leave
the house?
4
What proof will Fogg be expected to show that he
has travelled around the world?
5
What is Passepartout worried about at the end of the
second extract?
7
Referencing
What do the words highlighted in the
extract refer to?
1
he
5
you
2
its
6
we
3
they
7
his
4
him
8
it
8
What other stories do you know which talk about
travelling to other countries?
GRAMMAR
NARRATIVE TENSES
9
a
Underline the tenses. Which tenses are they?
1
… a fine, steady rain was falling
2
By eight o’clock Passepartout had packed the
modest carpet-bag …
3
… they took a cab and drove rapidly to Charing
Cross
4
Mr. Fogg was crossing the station to the train, when
he perceived his five friends ...
By eight o’clock Passepartout had packed the modest carpet-bag, containing
the wardrobes of his master and himself; then, still troubled in mind, he
carefully shut the door of his room, and descended to Mr. Fogg.
Mr. Fogg was quite ready. Under his arm might have been observed a red-
bound copy of Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Steam Transit and General
Guide, with its timetables showing the arrival and departure of steamers and
railways. He took the carpet-bag, opened it, and slipped into it a goodly roll
of Bank of England notes, which would pass wherever he might go.
“You have forgotten nothing?” asked he.
“Nothing, monsieur.”
“My mackintosh and cloak?”
“Here they are.”
“Good! Take this carpet-bag,” handing it to Passepartout. “Take good care of
it, for there are twenty thousand pounds in it.”
Passepartout nearly dropped the bag, as if the twenty thousand pounds were
in gold, and weighed him down.
Master and man then descended, the street-door was double-locked, and at
the end of Saville Row they took a cab and drove rapidly to Charing Cross.
The cab stopped before the railway station at twenty minutes past eight.
Two first-class tickets for Paris having been speedily purchased, Mr. Fogg
was crossing the station to the train, when he perceived his five friends of
the Reform.
“Well, gentlemen,” said he, “I’m off, you see; and, if you will examine
my passport when I get back, you will be able to judge whether I have
accomplished the journey agreed upon.”
“Oh, that would be quite unnecessary, Mr. Fogg,” said Ralph politely.
