Around the World in Eighty Days for ESL Learners
Around the World in Eighty Days is one of the greatest adventure races ever written—a relentless journey across oceans, deserts, jungles, and continents as the unshakable Phileas Fogg wagers his entire fortune on circling the globe in just eighty days. Driven by speed, precision, and constant danger, the novel transformed travel adventure into high-stakes suspense and helped inspire generations of globe-spanning thrillers, expedition stories, and race-against-time adventures.
- Author: Jules Verne
- 37 chapters
- About 335 minutes of reading and listening
Why this classic helps English learners
Around the World in Eighty Days gives ESL learners a complete story with memorable scenes, repeated vocabulary, dialogue, and clear narrative context. Instead of studying isolated word lists, you meet words inside situations that make them easier to remember and use.
Rich annotations for vocabulary growth
Classic English can include archaic words, older grammar, idioms, and cultural references. TaleVoice adds rich annotations in simple modern English, helping learners expand their vocabulary and get familiar with real English usage while they read.
Multi-voice narration like audio episodes
The multi-voice narration gives narrators and characters distinct voices, so reading feels closer to following excellent audio episodes than listening to a flat recording. Reading and listening together helps ESL learners improve vocabulary, listening comprehension, pronunciation, and fluency.
Chapters included
- In Which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other, the One as Master, the Other as Man
- In Which Passepartout Is Convinced That He Has at Last Found His Ideal
- In Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely to Cost Phileas Fogg Dear
- In Which Phileas Fogg Astounds Passepartout, His Servant
- In Which a New Species of Funds, Unknown to the Moneyed Men, Appears on ’Change
- In Which Fix, the Detective, Betrays a Very Natural Impatience
- Which Once More Demonstrates the Uselessness of Passports as Aids to Detectives
- In Which Passepartout Talks Rather More, Perhaps, Than Is Prudent
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