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2b By rail 2 Read 

A. Read the paragraph below, look at the pictures
accompanying the extract from Around the World
in Eighty Days and guess what happened next.
1 Vocabulary Then listen, read and check your answers.

It is the 1870s. The eccentric Englishman, Phileas Fogg, has
Look at the words related to placed a bet that he can go around the world in eighty days.
trains below. Which of them do Travelling with him is his French servant, Passepartout. During
you know? Can you guess the their trip, they have lots of adventures. Racing against time,
meaning of any others?
they now board a train travelling across America. But also
aboard is the bad-tempered Colonel Proctor, who argued with
• platform • engine Mr Fogg while in San Francisco.
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• Decide which words are important for understanding
the text and try to guess what they mean.
JULES VERNE AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
The conductor was fighting courageously next to Mr
Fogg when he was shot and fell. At the same moment
he cried, ‘Unless the train is stopped in five minutes,
we are lost!’
Fort Kearney station, where there was a garrison*,
was only two miles ahead. But the train was moving so
As the train was speeding through Wyoming, Mr Fogg fast it would pass the station before anyone could help
and Colonel Proctor were getting ready for the duel*. the passengers.
Carrying two revolvers* each, they entered the last ‘It shall be stopped,’ said Phileas Fogg, ready to rush
car of the train. At about fifty feet long, it was perfect from the car.
for their purpose. The other passengers, including ‘Stay, monsieur,’ cried Passepartout. ‘I will go.’
Passepartout, were waiting nervously outside of Without anyone noticing, he left the car and climbed
under the train, holding on to the chains. He managed
the car. to go from one car to another until he reached the
Suddenly, wild cries and gunshots were heard,
which certainly did not come from the car where front of the train.
Holding on with one hand, with the other he
the duelists were. From inside the cars came cries of unscrewed the yoking bar. The locomotive*, now
terror! detached from the train, rushed ahead with increased
Colonel Proctor and Mr Fogg rushed towards the
noise. They then saw that Sioux Indians were attacking speed. The train, however, slowed down and stopped
the train. There were about a hundred of them. The less than a hundred feet from Fort Kearney station.
sounds of gunshots came from the Sioux and from the The soldiers heard the shots and ran to help, but
passengers, who almost all had revolvers. the Sioux managed to disappear before the soldiers
When the Sioux climbed on the engine, they reached the train.
knocked out the engineer and stoker. The Indian chief, But when the passengers counted each other on
wanting to stop the train but not understanding how the station platform, several were found missing —
the engine worked, opened the steam-valve instead of including the courageous Frenchman who saved them.
closing it, which made the train go faster and faster.
In the meantime, the Sioux were invading the cars,
fighting hand-to-hand with the passengers. Some
even entered the baggage car, throwing things off
the train. Cries and shots could be heard everywhere.
The passengers were outnumbered but defended
themselves bravely.
* garrison: a group of soldiers who live in a fort or town to
* duel: a fight with guns or swords between two people defend it
* revolver: a small gun * locomotive: the engine that pulls a train
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