Balloon منطاد                                   Explore يستكشف                                Explorer مستكشف                              Exploration اكتشاف                            Lawyer محامي                                   Realize يدرك                                     Science fiction خيال علمي                     Magazine مجلة                                  Argue يتجادل/ يتناقش                            Argument نقاش / جدال                          Crime جريمة                                      Criminal مجرم                                    Around the worldحول العالم                 Return يعود                                       Travelيسافر                                         Realحقيقي                                           Transportوسائل النقل و المواصلات            Find outيكتشف                                   Discover يكتشف                                    Discovery اكتشاف

Kidnapيختطف شخص                            Hijack يختطف وسيلة مواصلات                 Rescue ينقذ                                        Journey رحلة                                     Trip رحلة قصيرة                                    Crossيعبر                                          Arrive يصل                                       Save يوفر                                          Servant خادم                                     Disagreement اختلاف                         Believeيعتقد/ يؤمن                               Fortunately من حسن الحظ                     Unfortunately من سوء الحظ                  Deathموت                                         Fuel وقود                                            Duringأثناء                                          Catch يلحق بـ                                       Miss يفوت                                          Finally في النهاية                                   Internationalدولي

 

Vocabulary

 

·       Balloon (n.) a small coloured rubber bag that is filled with air to use as a toy or decoration.

·       Explore (v.) to travel through an unfamiliar area to find out what it is like. exploration (n.)

·       Explorer (n.) someone who travels to places that people have not visited before.

·       Lawyer (n.) someone whose job is to advice people about the law and speak for them in court.

·       Realize (v.) to notice something that you did not notice or understand before.

·       Magazine (n.) a large thin book with a paper cover , which is sold every week or every month.

·       Argue (v.) to disagree with someone, usually by talking or shouting in an angry way.

·       Argument (n) a disagreement, especially one in which people talk loudly and angrily.

·       Crime (n.) illegal activity , an illegal action that can be punished by law.

·       Criminal (n.) someone who is proved guilty of a crime.

·       Kidnap (v.) to take someone away by force and keep them as your prisoner until people give you money or things you want.

·       Hijack (v.) to use violence or threats to take control of a plane, vehicle.

·       Science fiction (n.) books and stories about life in the future.

·       Rescue (v.) to save someone from harm or danger.

·       Journey (n.) a trip from one place to another , especially over a long distance.

·       Trip (n.) a journey in which you go to a place for a short time and come back.

·       Cross (v.) to go from one side of a road, river, place to the other.

·       Arrive (v.) to get to a place.

·       Save (v.) to make someone or something safe from danger , harm, or destruction.

·       Servant (n.) someone whose job is to live in another person’s house and especially in past times.

·       Disagreement (n.) difference between two statements, when you don’t agree with someone.

·       Believe (v.) to think that something is true or that someone is telling the truth.

·       Fortunately (adv.) used to say that it is a good thing that something happens, is true or exists.

·       Unfortunately (adv.) used to say that you wish something had not happened or was not true.

·       Death (n.) the end of someone’s life.

·       Fuel (n.) a substance such as coal, gas, or oil, which can be burned to produce heat or power.

·       During (prep.) all through a period of time.

·       Catch (v.) to stop someone from escaping by running after them and holding them.

·       Miss (v.) to not succeed in hitting or catching something. To be too late for something.

·       Finally (adv.) after a long time used when you are saying the last of series of things.

·       Discover (v.) to find something that was hidden, or that people did not know about before.

·       Discovery (n.) a fact. Piece of knowledge, or an answer to a questionbthat was not known before.

·       Describe (v.) to say what someone or something is like by giving details.

·       Return (v.) to come back or go back to a place.

·       Travel (v.) to make a journey from one place to another.

·       Real (adj.) actually existing and not just imagined.

·       Transport (n.) a kind of vehicle, or a system of buses, trains that you use for going from one place to another.

·       Find out (v.) discover.

 

 

 

Listening

Listen and answer:

Listen to a talk about writer Jules Verne and choose the correct answers:

1-What did Jules Verne write?

a) articles                                          b)novels                                        c) poems

2-what was his nationality?

a)French                                            b) British                                       c) American

3-When did Around the World in Eighty Days come out?

a)1828                                               b) 1863                                          c) 1873

 

Listen and answer:

Listen again. Are these sentences True or False?

a Truefals    Some people called Jules Verne the grandfather of science fiction.

b Truefals    Jules Verne was born in France in 1928.

c Truefals   Jules Verne’s father was a lawyer.

d Truefals   Jules Verne’s father stopped paying for his son’s studies because he had no money.

e Truefals   His first story was called Fifteen Weeks in a Balloon.      

f  Truefals   People first read Around the World in Eighty Days in a magazine.

 

 

Reading

Around the World in Eighty Days

The story begins in a London club on October 2, 1872. Phileas Fogg, a rich man, has an argument with afriend about how long it would take him to travel round the world. Fogg’s friend does not believe that Fogg can finish the journey in 80 days. If he succeeds, Fogg will win £20.000.

Fogg leaves London, with his servant Passepartout, at 8.45 Pm on October2. They will have to return at the same time on Suez, where they meet a man called Fix. Fix criminal he is looking for. The three men travel to Bombay by ship, then to Calcutta by train. Unfortunately, the railway line is not finished and they need to travel part of the way by elephant.

On their journey , they save a young woman from death. She is called Aouda and she goes with them on their journey. From Calcutta, they travel by ship to Hong Kong, then across the pacific to San Francisco. In San Francisco, Fogg, passepartout, Fix and Aouda catch the train to New York, but during this journey paddepartout is kidnapped. Fogg rescues his servant, but they get to New York late and miss their boat to Liverpool. After fuel problems, the next boat finally reaches Britain.

As soon as they arrive, Fix arrests Fog. He quickly realizes that Fogg is not the real criminal, but by now they have missed their money. However, Passepartout discovers that it is December 20, not December 21. Because they had travelled east, they had crossed International Date Line and saved a day! Fogg and Passepartout hurry to the club and arrive in time to win the  £20.000.

 

 

Read and order

Read the story and put these events in the order they happened.

a      Arrest of Fogg by Fix.

b       Arrival in Suez.

c      Disagreement between Fogg and his friend.

d      Fogg and Passepartout leave London.

e       Journey by elephant.                                                            

f       kidnap of passepartout.

g      Passepartout finds out the date.

h      Journey from Liverpool to London.

I        Rescue of young woman.

 

Read again and answer these questions:

1-what does Fogg catch in San Francisco?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

2-What do they miss in New York?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3-What two things do they lose in Britain?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

4- In what year does the story begin?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

5- Why did Fogg and his friends have to travel by elephant in India?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

 

Speaking

Choose a journey you would like to describe. It can be a real journey that you have made. Or a journey that you would like to make. You can use these questions to help you.

1-Where was your journey from and to?2-Why did you make the journey?

3-Who made the journey with you?

4-How did you travel?

5- What happened during the journey?

6- How did the journey end?

 

 

Writing

Write the following:

If you had the chance to travel round the world, which route would you choose? Start and end your journey from your home town.

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

 

 

 

Grammar

 

Relative clause

We use relative clauses to give additional information about something without starting another sentence. By combining sentences with a relative clause, your text becomes more fluent and you can avoid repeating certain words.

·         The bike (which / that) I loved was stolen.

·         The university (which / that) she likes is famous.

·         The woman (who / that) my brother loves is from Mexico.

·         The doctor (who / that) my grandmother liked lives in New York.

·         My boss, who is very nice, lives in Manchester.

·         My sister, who I live with, knows a lot about cars.

·         My bicycle, which I've had for more than ten years, is falling apart.

·         My mother's house, which I grew up in, is very small.

·         The dog whose owner lives next door is over there.      

·         The little girl whose doll was lost is sad.

·         I live in the city where I study.

·          I live in the city that / which I study in.

·          I live in the city in which I study.

·         The summer when I graduated from university was long and hot.

·          The summer that / which I graduated from university inwas long and hot.

·         The summer in which I graduated was long and hot.

 

 

 

 

Relative Pronouns Level: lower intermediate

 

relative pronoun	use	example
who	subject or object pronoun for people	I told you about the woman wholives next door.
which	subject or object pronoun for animals and things	Do you see the cat whichis lying on the roof?
which	referring to a whole sentence	He couldn’t read whichsurprised me.
whose	possession for people animals and things	Do you know the boy whosemother is a nurse?
whom	object pronoun for people, especially in non-defining relative clauses (in defining relative clauses we colloquially prefer who)	I was invited by the professor whomI met at the conference.
that	subject or object pronoun for people, animals and things in defining relative clauses (whoor whichare also possible)	I don’t like the table thatstands in the kitchen.

 

Relative Adverbs

A relative adverb can be used instead of a relative pronoun plus preposition. This often makes the sentence easier to understand.

This is the shop in which I bought my bike.
→ This is the shop where I bought my bike.

relative adverb	meaning	use	example
when	in/on which	refers to a time expression	the day whenwe met him
where	in/at which	refers to a place	the place wherewe met him
why	for which	refers to a reason	the reason whywe met him

 

Choose the correct relative pronoun (who, which, whose).

1.       This is the bank whowhichwhosewas robbed yesterday.

2.       A boy whowhichwhosesister is in my class was in the bank at that time.

3.       The man whowhichwhoserobbed the bank had two pistols.

4.       He wore a mask whowhichwhosemade him look like Mickey Mouse.

5.       He came with a friend whowhichwhosewaited outside in the car.

6.       The woman whowhichwhosegave him the money was young.

7.       The bag whowhichwhosecontained the money was yellow.

8.       The people whowhichwhosewere in the bank were very frightened.

9.       A man whowhichwhosemobile was ringing did not know what to do.

10.   A woman whowhichwhosedaughter was crying tried to calm her.

11.   The car whowhichwhosethe bank robbers escaped in was orange.

12.   The robber whowhichwhosemask was obviously too big didn't drive.

13.   The man whowhichwhosedrove the car was nervous.

14.   He didn't wait at the traffic lights whowhichwhosewere red.

Choose the correct relative adverb.

1.       This is the station wherewhenwhyEmily met James.

2.       July and August are the months wherewhenwhymost people go on holiday.

3.       Do you know the reason wherewhenwhyso many people in the world learn English?

4.       This is the church wherewhenwhySue and Peter got married.

5.       Edinburgh is the town wherewhenwhyAlexander Graham Bell was born.

6.       25 December is the day wherewhenwhychildren in Great Britain get their Christmas presents.

7.       A famine was the reason wherewhenwhyso many Irish people emigrated to the USA in the 19th century.

8.       A greengrocer's is a shop wherewhenwhyyou can buy vegetables.

9.       The day wherewhenwhyI arrived was very nice.

10.   A horror film was the reason wherewhenwhyI couldn't sleep last night.