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·       Page 20 / 21 Axel had a dream. He saw the he was alone inside the volcano. He was lost and very scared. The volcano exploded and he was shot out of its top like a rock

·       Page 24 / 25 Axel, Hans and Professor Lidenbrock are inside the volcano. There are three holes in the floor of the volcano. They looked like dark caves. They don´t know which is the correct hole they have to take to reach the centre of the Earth. Arne Saknussemm said the sin touches one of them at the end of June. The next day the sun comes out at 01: 13 in the afternoon, it touches the hole in the centre of the floor

·       Page 28 Axel is inside the volcano. He is walking inside the tunnel. He is using his torch so he can see the rock on the walls clearly. It looked like glass of different colours.

·       Page 30 they are looking for water because they ran out of it. Here I can see Axel, Hans and the Professor Lidenbrock. Hans is using his pickaxe to make a hole in the wall. Water came out onto the floor around them.

·       Page 30 / 35 Axel and the Professor are inside the volcano. The weather is sunny and hot. They are in the underground sea. There are trees and the bones of animals which lived thousands of years ago. Axel had a bandage on his head. Hans is building a boat for them to sail in.

·       Page 42 / 43 there is a terrible storm; the waves are very big and push them away so they are scared. I can see Hans trying to keep the boat from sinking.

·       Page 44 here I can see Axel and the Professor with a compass. It shows south but they were in the north. The wind took them back to the place where they started.

·       Page 38 / 39 Axel, Hans and Professor Lidenbrock are in the sea under Scotland.  There are two monsters one with the body of a dolphin and the head of an alligator and the other is a snake with the shell on its back like a turtle’s

·       Page 46 / 48 / 49 along the beach there are trees and small plants. They found some bones of both animals and people. They saw mammoths and a man and walking behind them a giant man with long hair and a beard

·       Page 50 the Professor is very happy because he found the letters AS at the entrance of the cave. He was the man who reached the centre of the Earth before

·       Page 53 there was an explosion because Hans put gunpowder inside a hole he did in the rock with his pickaxe.  Axel, Hans and Professor Lidenbrock are into the boat. There was a huge wave which pushes them back to the beach. They were in the air, on top of the water.  They fell into the hole. The temperature was high

·       In this picture we can see Axel, Hans, Grauben and Professor Lidenbrock. They are back from their journey safe and sound. They are talking about their journey at the station in front of the journalists. They saw things that scientist still don’t know about

 

ANSWERS 1-5

Answer the Questions

Chapter One

1.   Where does the professor Lidenbrock teach?                   He teaches at the University of Hamburg

2.      How old was the book that the professor found in the bookshop? It was seven hundred years old

3.   What was the book about? It was about the old princess from Norway who came to live in Iceland

4.   What was the old piece of paper like?                           
 It had strange letters on it

5.   Which country was the old language from?                          It was from Iceland

6.   What is at Sneffels Yokul?                                                    A volcano is at Sneffels Yokul

7.   Who wrote the message?                                     
      Arne Saknussemm wrote the message

8.         How are Axel and the professor getting to Denmark? They are getting to Denmark by train

Chapter Two

1. What is the professor’s only interest?                    
His only interest is Science

2. How long is the trip going to take?                                       
It is going to take twelve days

3. Where did Axel go for a walk?                                                 He went along the Elbe River for a walk

4. Where was his uncle?                                       
  He was in the library

Chapter Three

1. What was near the top of Sneffells Yokul?                              Snow was near the top of Sneffells Yokul

2. Who came to meet the professor and Axel to the boat?        Mr Fridiksson came to meet them

3. What things did they take with them for their journey? They took tools, lights, guns, medicine, enough food for six months and ropes for climbing

4. When did they leave Reykjavik?                                        They left on 15^th June   

5. When was the last explosion of the volcano?                         It was in 1229

6. What did Axel dream about?                                                He dreamt he was alone in the volcano when it exploded

 

Chapter Four

1. Who went down the volcano first?                                          Hans went down the volcano first

2. What did the volcano look like inside?                                     It looks like the inside of an ice-cream cone

3. What kind of weather did Axel hope for?                                 He hoped for rain

4. What did Hans build from large rocks?                                 He built a small house from large rocks

5. What did the professor find on the wall of the volcano?       He found the words ¨Arne Saknussemm¨

6. What time did the sun come out the next day?                   The sun came out at 1: 13

Chapter Five

1. How far did they travel?                                                    They travelled two thousand feet down

2. What did they find?                                                                  They found tunnels

3. How did Axel get lost?                                                              He was ahead of the others

4. What happened to Axel?                                                       He fell and hit his face

5. Who are the people on page 30/31? They were Hans, the Professor Lidenbrock and Axel. The Professor is older than Hans. Hans is older than Axel. The Professor is the oldest and Axel is the youngest.

6. Where were they?                                                               They were inside the volcano

7. What were they doing?                                                      They were digging to find water

8. What was the man holding?                                                 He was holding a pickaxe

9. What was coming out of the walls?                                  Water was coming out of the walls

10. Give a short description of the three men

 

ANSWERS CHAPTERS 6-10

Chapter 6

What things did they find in the underground sea?

What was coming out from the heat of the rocks?

What did Axel do when he felt strong again?

What did Axel find on the beach?

What was on the axe when they pulled it back into the boat?

Which country are they under?

What kind of animal came closer to their boat?

Where did the snake die?

Chapter 7

Who was sailing the boat?

Where was the water coming from?

What fell on the boat?

What threw them into the water?

What did they see after the storm stopped?

Where did the compass show that they were?

 

Chapter 8

What were the things they found on the beach?

What could they read from the bones?

What did they find with all the other bones?

What did Axel see behind the trees?

Where did the professor run to?

What was on the entrance of the cave?

Chapter 9

How did Hans make a hole on the rock?

What did they use to light the gun powder?

What was the colour of the walls inside the volcano?

What did Axel hear coming from behind them?

What could Axel see through the round hole?

What was the last Thing they heard before they were flying?

Chapter 10

What kind of trees were there in the land?
Who was the first person they saw there?

What language did the boy speak?

Which volcano did they come out of in the end?

Who did Axel look for when they arrived in Hamburg?

Who asked the professor to talk about the journey?

 

ANSWERS

      Chapter 6

        1. They found trees and the bones of animals

        2. Electricity is coming out of the heart of the rocks

        3. He walked alone the beach

        4. He found shells and the bones of a huge elephant

        5. There were teeth marks

        6. They were under Scotland

        7. It had the body of a dolphin and the head of an alligator

       8. The snake died in the water

       Chapter 7

        1. Hans was

        2. The water was coming from a small volcano

        3. A ball of white electric light fell on the boat

        4. A huge wave threw them into the water

       5. They saw the boat still on the water

       6. The compass showed that they were in the North

      Chapter 8

1. They found bones and shells

2.  Yes, they could read the whole story of the world

3. They found the head of a man

4.  They saw a family of mammoth

5.   He run to a cave nearby

6.  There were the letter ¨A.S.¨

     Chapter 9

1.   He made a hole in the rock with his pickaxe

2.   They used a rope to light the gun power

3.   The walls had the red colour of lava

4.   He heard a load roar

5.   He could see the blue sky

6.   They heard a terrible roar

       Chapter 10

1.   There were olive and fruit trees

2.   The first person they saw there was a little boy

3.   He spoke Italian

4.   They came out of Mount Edna

5.   He looked for Grauben

6.   The journalist asked the professor to talk about the journey