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Compass Classic Readers: Around the World in Eighty Days
Compass Publishing brings Jules Verne's whirlwind adventure to its line of
Compass Classic Readers
. English language learners of all ages will enjoy developing their vocabulary and reading fluency as they read about the gentleman Phileas Fogg, his valet Passepartout and their acceptance of a wager to travel around the world in 80 days. Students and teachers alike will be charmed by this thrilling account of Fogg and Passepartout traveling the world while being pursued by a detective name Fix and discovering the beguiling Miss Aouda.
Compass Classic Readers provide beginning and intermediate English language learners accessible adaptations of the greatest works of literature. Carefuly designed to retell the stories using vocabulary and sentence structure appropriate for one of six different grade levels.
Key Features
- Carefully graded, retold-stories using appropriate vocabulary and sentence structure
- Motivating full-color illustrations
- Discussion questions before and after each chapter
- A glossary of key vocabulary words
- A short playlet for fun classroom activities
- An MP3 CD of the full story
- A companion workbook is available separately
96 pages, Perfect Paperback
First published October 31, 2013
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February 23, 2015
I’m watching Dead Poet’s Society (for the first time) and just got to the line “Just when you think you know something, you have to look at it in another way.” And that kind of resonated with why I chose to read Around the World in Eighty Days on my last trip.
In Verne’s book, Phileas Fogg and friends travel across Europe and India to Singapore, up the coast to Hong Kong, across the sea to Japan, then over the Pacific to a journey across the United States, before returning to England. And a good leg of their journey was also where I was headed.
We traveled from Singapore up to Bangkok, then on to Vietnam and Hong Kong and back to Japan on a nice, long cruse. I had never read Around the World in Eighty Days (I know, I know–how could an avid writer, reader, and traveler not have read this yet?) and thought it would be neat to find out what some of these places were like back then compared to the how they look now.
This was fun. Sitting on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong, staring at the modern skyline, and reading Verne’s description of Hong Kong way back when gave me a different perspective on things. A sense of time gone by and a different way of living.
As far as reading the book, I enjoyed it and now have to go back and read more of Verne’s works. As an editor, the grammar drove me nuts (they used commas and semicolons totally different back then than we do now, and I so wanted to get out my red pen and mark up my kindle screen) but the adventure itself once again makes me want to tromp through jungles and steam across the oceans in search of new adventures.
In Verne’s book, Phileas Fogg and friends travel across Europe and India to Singapore, up the coast to Hong Kong, across the sea to Japan, then over the Pacific to a journey across the United States, before returning to England. And a good leg of their journey was also where I was headed.
We traveled from Singapore up to Bangkok, then on to Vietnam and Hong Kong and back to Japan on a nice, long cruse. I had never read Around the World in Eighty Days (I know, I know–how could an avid writer, reader, and traveler not have read this yet?) and thought it would be neat to find out what some of these places were like back then compared to the how they look now.
This was fun. Sitting on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong, staring at the modern skyline, and reading Verne’s description of Hong Kong way back when gave me a different perspective on things. A sense of time gone by and a different way of living.
As far as reading the book, I enjoyed it and now have to go back and read more of Verne’s works. As an editor, the grammar drove me nuts (they used commas and semicolons totally different back then than we do now, and I so wanted to get out my red pen and mark up my kindle screen) but the adventure itself once again makes me want to tromp through jungles and steam across the oceans in search of new adventures.
January 12, 2016
What a fun reading experience! It had me smiling much of the time. Enter the imperturbable, precise Phileas Fogg and the companions he acquires along the way and the adventure is non-stop from beginning to end. Can't wait to see the DVD.
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