Вокруг света за 80 дней: адаптированный текст + задания. Уровень А1. Жюль Верн

And he showed them, on the centre page of the paper.

      London to Suez – railway and ship

      Suez to Bombay – ship

      Bombay to Calcutta – railway

      Calcutta to Hong Kong – ship

      Hong Kong to Yokohama – ship Yokohama to San Francisco – ship

      San Francisco to New York – railway New York to London – ship and railway

      80 days

      ‘Yes,’ said Stuart, ‘eighty days. It’s all right on paper. But a lot of things can happen in eighty days. They can stop you on the way.’

      ‘No, they can’t, Mr. Stuart,’ said Phileas Fogg.

      ‘Well, why don’t you try, Mr. Fogg?’

      ‘Go round the world in eighty days?’ said Phileas Fogg. ‘All right. I have twenty thousand pounds in Baring’s Bank. I’ll bet all of it.’

      ‘Twenty thousand pounds!’ cried Ralph. ‘Something will happen on the journey, and you’ll lose all your money.’ ‘Nothing will stop me,’ Phileas Fogg said. In the end, Phileas Fogg’s five friends took the bet. ‘Each person will pay you four thousand pounds – that’s twenty thousand pounds – when we see you again here in the Reform Club in eighty days at the end of your journey round the world,’ said Ralph.’ Or you have to pay us twenty thousand pounds. That’s the bet.’

      Phileas Fogg thought for a minute. ‘Today is Wednesday, 2nd October. So I have to be back here, in this room in the Reform Club, on Saturday, 21st December at 8.45 in the evening.’