Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

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What is this adventure story?

What is the main objective of the lesson?

• To learn some new information about Jules Vern?

2. To get to know the famous novel?

3. To practice reading in an RNE format?

What do you know about the author?

• What do you think happens in this episode?

2. Read the first sentence of each paragraph. Find the necessary to describe the picture.

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R N E

Read the text. Complete the gaps with the parts of the sentences marked by numbers 1-7. One part is extra.

A B C D E F

6 4 7 2 5 1

tired

weary

[ˈwɪərɪ]

once more

immediately

companions

big, huge

[ʤaɪˈgæntɪk]

float

gigantic

fright

at once

drift

friends

horror

again

side by side

Explain the words from the text:

lost consciousness

unconscious:

unable to move, see, hear or feel

fallen out of the frying pan into the fire

current:

mist:

underground:

monstrous:

mighty:

ferocious:

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Complete the gaps with words from the list.

fiercely

1. stared …………………………………………..

[ˈhɪdɪəs]

jaws

2. hideous ………………………………………

light

3. brilliant ………………………………………

gigantic

lost

4. ……………………………………… eyes

7. …………………… consciousness

wide-stretched

5. ……………………………………… mouth

deadly

8. ……………………… danger

strange

6. ……………………………………… noise

Imagine what the monster in the cave at the end of the extract might look like.

The gigantic monster had the head of a lizard and the body of a horse. It didn’t have arms, but it had the wings of a bat that ended in terrible claws. It had monstrous glaring eyes and hideous jaws that dripped poison from its yellow fangs.

Through its gigantic eyes, the monster stared fiercely. I could see rows of razor-like teeth in its wide-stretched mouth. It had the head of an eagle and the body of a snake. Its arms were the tentacles of an octopus and its tail the sting of a scorpion.

1. What story did we read?

2. Who is the author?

3. Why did we read it?

Jules Verne:

Top 10 facts about the French novelist, poet, and playwright

  According to UNESCO, Jules Verne is the second most translated author, behind Agatha Christie but ahead of Shakespeare.

Verne’s 1863 novel “Paris In The Twentieth Century” predicted glass skyscrapers,

high-speed trains and

a worldwide communications network.

In 1886 he was shot and wounded in the leg by his mentally ill nephew, Gaston.

Verne had a limp for the rest of his life. He died in 1905.

Verne’s first work to be filmed was

From The Earth To The Moon,

filmed in 1902.

A team of archaeologists and historians has discovered a TIME capsule associated with the famous French writer Jules Verne.

TRUE

FALSE

On this day (November, 14 th ) in 1889, inspired by the Jules Verne novel "Around the World in Eighty Days," New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) set out to make the trip in less time than the fictional Phileas Fogg.

(She completed the journey in 72 days.)