Around the World in 80 Days | A2/B1 🌍

The Epic 4 movies
🌍 Around the World in 80 Days | The Invention & The Bet | A2/B1+
🎬 Around the World in 80 Days | Phileas Fogg

⚡ The Invention & The Bet

Present Perfect • Future predictions • Dramatic phrases – Learn with the legendary wager

📺 Very short summary (the bet & the invention)

⭐ Phileas Fogg, a brilliant but eccentric inventor, accepts a daring £10,000 wager from Lord Kelvin: to circumnavigate the globe in just 80 days. Fogg risks his laboratory, reputation, and his position as head of the Royal Academy. With his brave valet Passepartout (who secretly stole the Jade Buddha), they break speed barriers, escape police, and race against time. The bet begins: "History won't remember your amusement, Lord Kelvin – but it will remember the moment I stand on the top step after 80 days." 🏁✈️

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Focus on these moments

  • 🔹 Why does Fogg say "We will make history or we will die trying" ?
  • 🔹 What does Lord Kelvin wager? (His position as Minister of Science vs Fogg's lab)
  • 🔹 Listen for the phrase: "I have been employee of the month a gazillion times" (SpongeBob style? but here it's Fogg's confidence: "I have broken speed barriers")
  • 🔹 How does Fogg react when he learns Passepartout is the bank thief?
  • 🔹 The final twist: the international date line gives them an extra day!
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Watch the scene: The Invention & The Bet

🍿 Key scene: Fogg's 50 mph speed barrier, the Royal Academy wager, and the beginning of an epic race.

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Hard vocabulary – Listen & learn

🔊 Click speaker to hear pronunciation. Click Show definition.

circumnavigate
impeccable
duplicitous
concede
fortnight
abhorrent
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Power phrases from the bet

"We will make history or we will die trying."
"I have broken the 50 mph speed barrier without disrupting my internal organs."
"A wager. £10,000. And your position as head of the Royal Academy."
"Progress waits for no one."
"I concede to you. You are superior."
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General questions – Write your answers

1️⃣ Why does Lord Kelvin laugh at Fogg's idea of flying machines and speed records? What does this show about Kelvin's attitude?
2️⃣ Fogg risks his entire life's work on a bet. Would you risk everything for a crazy dream? Why/why not?
3️⃣ How does the international date line save Fogg? What does that teach us about science and perspective?
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What you can learn from Fogg & Passepartout

  • Never underestimate a "crackpot" inventor – Fogg’s flying machine actually works.
  • Use Present Perfect to talk about achievements: "I have broken barriers", "I have traveled across oceans".
  • Admit defeat like a gentleman: "I concede to you" sounds a thousand times better than "Fine, you win".
  • Sometimes the biggest risk brings the biggest reward – even if you almost die in a hot air balloon.
  • Practice /f/ and /v/ sounds: “Fogg”, “valet”, “invention”, “velocity”, “fortnight”.
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Write a summary of the bet scene

📝 Summarize what happens in the video. Use present perfect + at least two useful phrases from Step 3.

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Freer practice – Speak like an inventor

🎲 Choose one activity:

  • A. Make three predictions using "will" + present perfect: "By 2030, scientists will have invented..."
  • B. Tell a short story about a bet you made or a challenge you accepted. Use present perfect and phrases like "I have never...", "I concede".
  • C. Answer: "What is something you have achieved that seemed impossible at first?"

🎙️ Click the microphone, then speak your answer. The system checks grammar & phrase use.

You said:

💡 Bonus: use the word "circumnavigate", "impeccable" or "fortnight".

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