Gulliver's Travels: Resumen de los Capítulos 1 a 12 y Actividades de Comprensión Lectora

Gulliver's Travels: Chapters 1 to 3

Chapters 1 to 3

What did Gulliver arrive in Lilliput?

1. He swam there, after his ship had gone down in a violent storm.

Was Gulliver's first experience of the Lilliputians?

2. When he woke up on the beach, he found himself tied down to the ground. Then he felt and saw about forty Lilliputian men walking up his leg and body to his face.

Did the Lilliputians take Gulliver to their capital?

3. They built a special wooden platform with twenty-two wheels, and one thousand five hundred horses pulled Gulliver on the platform to the capital.

Did the king's officers find anything in Gulliver's pockets?

4. They found two pocket knives, a watch, a comb, a purse with several gold and silver coins, a gun and bullets.

Did the king choose his officials?

5. The King chose his officials by making people jump and dance on a rope, and whoever jumped highest without falling got the best job.

Was the strange black thing found on the beach?

6. It was Gulliver's hat.

What was the difference between the Big-Endians and the Small-Endians?

7. The Big-Endians broke their boiled eggs at the larger end; the Small-Endians broke them at the smaller end.

Did Gulliver help Lilliput in the war with Blefuscu?

8. He walked and swam through the sea to Blefuscu, put hooks on fifty warships, and then pulled the ships back to Lilliput.

Did Gulliver protect his eyes from the Blefuscans' arrows?

9. He protected his eyes by putting on an old pair of reading glasses.

What did the king want Gulliver to do next?

10. The King wanted Gulliver to go back and steal all the Blefuscans' ships, so that he could defeat them forever.

Did Gulliver put out the fire in the palace?

11. He made water over the flames.

Chapter 4

What punishment does the king decide on for Gulliver?

1. The punishment is that Gulliver loses his sight and is given a little less food every day, so that he would become ill and die.

Do any of Gulliver's friends warn him of the danger?

2. Yes, a friend warns him.

Does Gulliver kill any Lilliputians during his escape?

3. No, he doesn't kill any Lilliputians.

How does he escape and which country does he go to?

4. He swims to Blefuscu, pulling one of Lilliput's warships to carry his clothes.

Where does he go next and what does he take with him?

5. Next, he goes to England, taking some tiny live animals (cattle and sheep).

Chapters 5 and 6

1. False. The sailors landed on Brobdingnag to look for fresh water.

2. True. Gulliver hid in the corn.

3. False. The giants were about twenty metres tall.

4. False. The farmer soon realized that Gulliver was an intelligent being.

5. True. Gulliver was attacked by rats.

6. True. Glumdalclitch, the giant girl, took care of Gulliver.

7. False. The farmer took Gulliver all over the country to make money from showing him to people.

Chapters 7 and 8

Why was the farmer glad to sell Gulliver to the queen?

1. Because he received a good price, and he thought Gulliver would not live much longer.

What did the king think Gulliver was at first?

2. The King thought that Gulliver was a mechanical toy.

What did the queen's dwarf do to Gulliver?

3. He was very rude to Gulliver and behaved very badly. Once he pushed his legs into a bone; he used flies to scare him; and once he dropped him into a bowl of milk.

Why was it unusual for foreigners to visit Brobdingnag?

4. It was unusual for foreigners to visit Brobdingnag because the sea around it was rough, and the beaches were so rocky.

Why was Gulliver able to go rowing or sailing?

5. Gulliver was able to go rowing and sailing because the Queen ordered her workmen to make a tiny boat for him, and a wooden container, filled with water, about a hundred metres long.

What was the greatest danger to Gulliver in Brobdingnag?

6. The greatest danger to Gulliver was a monkey that carried him up on to the palace roof, three hundred metres above the ground.

What did the king want Gulliver to tell him about?

7. The King wanted Gulliver to tell him about the laws, the political life and the customs of Gulliver's country, England.

Why did the king refuse Gulliver's offer of gunpowder?

8. The King refused Gulliver's offer because he did not want to know how to murder people.

Chapter 9

Gulliver escaped from Brobdingnag because a huge bird took Gulliver and his box away.

Chapters 10 and 11

Go and see what you can buy and sell in the islands round here.

1. The ship's captain said that to Gulliver when they arrived in the Gulf of Tongking.

The earth was very nearly destroyed by the last one.

2. A man on Laputa, talking about the last falling star.

That's not much to look forward to, is it?

3. The second Laputan, talking about the thirty years of life left until the earth was destroyed.

It's made us feel rather sick.

4. A student at the School of Mathematics in Lagado said that to Gulliver, explaining that they had to eat their lessons in order to learn them.

You'll find it a very interesting place.

5. An official in Lagado said that to Gulliver, talking about the island of Glubbdubdrib.

You could ask them questions about their lives.

6. The President of Glubbdubdrib, talking about the ghosts of dead people he could ask to appear.

I drank too much and died of a fever.

7. Alexander the Great said that to Gulliver, explaining the reason for his early death.

In death as in life he has always been my friend.

8. Julius Caesar said that to Gulliver, talking about his murderer, Brutus.

I expect they're among the most important people in the country.

9. Gulliver, talking about the Struldbrugs.

You see, you've made a very understandable mistake.

10. A friend of Gulliver in Luggnagg said that to him, explaining that Gulliver was wrong when he thought that the people who lived forever would also be healthy and happy forever.

Chapter 12

Why did Gulliver's sailors attack him and leave him on a small island?

1. Gulliver's sailors attacked him because they wanted to take control of the ship and become pirates.

Who was in control of this island?

2. The Houyhnhnms, or Houys, were in control of the island.

Who were the servants in the country of the Houys?

3. The Houys' servants were human-like animals called Yahoos.

What did Gulliver eat on the island?

4. Gulliver ate little cakes made of corn, cooked birds, plant leaves, bread and milk.

Why did Gulliver have to explain to his Houy master what lying meant?

5. Because in the Houyhnhnm language there was no word for telling lies.

What did Gulliver's Houy master think about money?

6. He didn't understand the need for it, because they shared everything in his country.

Why was Gulliver so happy in the land of the Houys?

7. Because the Houys were sensible, gentle creatures who never lied or stole, who had no disease, no crime, and no wars.

Why did the Houys ask Gulliver to leave their country?

8. Because he was neither a Yahoo nor a Houy, and did not fit in with either group.

How did Gulliver feel about his family when he got home?

9. He was filled with horror, because they looked and smelt like Yahoos.

What did Gulliver realize five years later?

10. He realized that people could not learn from the Houys. They still lied, stole, and fought, just as they had always done, and probably would always do.

Activity 1 – After Reading

1. Gulliver's wife. Gulliver was in England, having returned home from his voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms.

2. The King of Brobdingnag. Gulliver was in Brobdingnag, and had just told the King about life in England and recent European history.

3. Flimnap. Gulliver was in Lilliput, receiving visitors at his house, when they used to drive their coaches and horses round his table.

4. Glumdalclitch. Gulliver was in Brobdingnag, and was being held in the monkey's arms, on the roof of the palace.

5. The ship's captain. This was the English ship that had picked Gulliver up near Blefuscu, and was taking him home to England.