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Penguin Readers Factsheets l e v e l E T e a c h e r’s n o t e s 1 2 3 The Mysterious Island 4 5 by Jules Verne 6 ELEMENTARY S U M M A R Y hen a balloon is blown off course, it arrives in supported by scientific knowledge or speculation. W the middle of the Pacific Ocean and deposits Verne was fascinated by exploration – he even wrote its occupants – four men, a boy and a dog – a history of exploration from Phoenician times to the into the sea. One of the men, Cyrus Smith, is mid-l9th century. In all his famous works, his particularly lucky to survive. He managed to make it characters use the latest ‘inventions’ to explore the to shore but has no idea how he reached a cave half moon, the ocean depths or the center of the earth. a mile from the sea. Amongst the inventions which he anticipated in his Other mysterious things happen on the writings are flights into outer space, submarines, uninhabited island. After the men have made a list of helicopters, air conditioning, guided missiles, and things they want, a large box appears on the beach motion pictures. His other science fiction works and inside are all the things they asked for. When include From the Earth to the Moon and 20,000 pirates come to disturb them in their new cave Leagues Under the Sea in which Captain Nemo first house, their ship is torpedoed and sent to the bottom. appears. Finally, when the boy, Herbert, falls sick, medicine appears which saves him. But their mysterious helper suddenly needs help of BACKGROUND AND THEMES his own. He tells them how to find him – at the bottom The Mysterious Island turns out to be a sequel to of the deep well in their cave house. He is none other 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but this only than Captain Nemo, anti-hero of another Jules Verne becomes evident at the end of the story. Up until the story, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. He is at the point where Captain Nemo reveals himself, it is the end of his life and he wants the men to take his tale of a group of castaways, very much in the mould riches and scuttle his submarine, Nautilus, after his of Robinson Crusoe. The big difference is that, in this death, with him on board. case, there is a mysterious helper. At first, this help The friends spend a little longer on the island but has an almost mystical quality. Is Verne writing about are eventually rescued by a British survey ship, free the way that God helps people in trouble? A man is at last to start or return to families, and write or tell of carried to safety as if by magic. The castaways write their adventures and their mysterious helper. notes of what they need – written prayers – and, soon after, all their needs are met – their prayers are answered. But then the help takes on a much more ABOUT JULES VERNE scientific form – the torpedoing of the pirates’ ship – and we move from mysticism to pure adventure. Jules Verne is sometimes considered to be the father There is one final twist. Captain Nemo is their helper. of science fiction but he came to the genre late in his Although his very name means nobody in Latin, he is life. quite definitely somebody in this story – a person He studied law in Paris then became secretary of with a past fixed firmly in the recent history of the the Theatre Lyrique before working as a stockbroker. world for Verne’s readers. Most Frenchmen probably His first fictional works were plays and the words for resented the breadth and influence of the British operas. Then, at the age of 34, he wrote the empire, but it is debatable how much the average adventure story Five Weeks in a Balloon which was Frenchman of 1875 cared about the Indian Mutiny of quickly followed by the science fiction classic 1857, brutally put down by Britain, the imperial Journey to the Center of the Earth, published in power, However, Verne clearly felt that these events 1864. Ve r n e ’s skill was to weave an exciting gave Nemo good reason for his behaviour. adventure story around a fantastical idea which was © Pearson Education 2001 l e v e l Penguin Readers Factsheets 2 T e a c h e r’s n o t e s Communicative activities Chapters 10–13 At the end of the story, it says that the men The following teacher-led activities cover the were happy to leave the island. Ask students to same sections of text as the exercises at the work in groups and make a list of good things back of the Reader and supplement those and bad things about living on a desert island exercises. For supplementary exercises with four or five other people – of the same sex! covering shorter sections of the book, see the photocopiable Student’s Activities pages of this ACTIVITIES AFTER READING THE BOOK Factsheet. These are primarily for use with There are 13 chapters in the book. If possible, class readers but, with the exception of the put students into groups of 13 and give each discussion and pair/groupwork activities, can student one chapter to read again and make also be used by students working alone in a notes on. If you cannot divide the group in 13s, self-access centre. give the stronger students two chapters each. Give students 10 minutes to re-read their ACTIVITIES BEFORE READING THE BOOK chapters and then retell the story in groups. 1 Ask students to work in groups and to think of possible ways in which an island can be mysterious. Elicit ideas from each group. 2 Ask students to continue to work in groups G l o s s a r y and to look at the list of words in the back of It will be useful for your students to know the following new the book in section 2 of the ‘Before You words. They are practised in the ‘Before You Read’sections Read’ Activities (Chapters 1–4). They must of exercises at the back of the book. (Definitions are based come up with a short story about a on those in the Longman Active Study Dictionary.) mysterious island which includes all those Chapters 1–4 words. balloon (n) a large rubber bag filled with hot air which can ACTIVITIES AFTER READING A SECTION carry people into the air bark (v) if a dog barks, it makes several short loud sounds Chapters 1–4 bow (n) a weapon used for shooting arrows Remind students that in this section the men branch (n) a part of a tree that grows out from the trunk write a list of things to help them do the cave (n) a large natural hole in the side of a cliff or under the ground following: island (n) a piece of land completely surrounded by water • cook land (n) a country • fish master (n) the man who is in charge of a dog, a home or a • write servant • fight match (n) a small wooden stick that produces a flame • build when you rub it against something Put students into pairs to make a list of helpful mysterious (adj) strange and difficult to explain or items for each verb, e,g, cook = pots, pans, a understand stove. You might let them use bilingual prisoner (n) someone who is kept in a prison rock (n) a large piece or solid mass of stone dictionaries for the task. rope (n) very strong thick string, made by twisting together After some time, elicit ideas from all the pairs many threads and make a list on the board for each verb. sign (n) an event or fact that shows that something exists wave (n) a raised line of water that moves across the Chapters 5–9 surface of the sea Remind students that in this section they had a Chapters 5–9 lot of problems with Cave House and found pirate (n) a sailor who attacks other boats and steals things answers to each problem. Without looking back from them at the chapters or the other activities on this torpedo (n) a weapon that is fired under the surface of the sea from one ship to another sheet, can they make a list of problems and answers in small groups. Chapters 10–13 captain (n) someone who is in charge of a ship or plane prince (n) the son of a king or queen submarine (n) a ship that can travel under water Published and distributed by Pearson Education Factsheet written by Terry Philips © Pearson Education 2001 Factsheet series developed by Louise James Penguin Readers Factsheets l e v e l E Student’s activities 1 The Mysterious Island 2 3 Photocopiable 4 Students can do these exercises alone or with one or more other students. Pair/group-only exercises are marked. 5 Activities before reading the book 6 1 The following things are all in one or more of the 4 What did they find on the big island? Tick one or pictures in the book. Can you find all the things in more of these things. ELEMENTARY two minutes. Which page are they on? (a) wood a box (b) mountains a boy (c) water a branch (d) beach a cave (e) people a cave (f) food a dog (g) rocks a door 5 What does the word in italics refer to in each of a fire these sentences from Chapter 3? fish (a) We’ll have to watch it.
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