H.G. Wells The Time Machine
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Welcome to The Time Machine
Information about the author, the story and the historical period.
Brief descriptions of the main characters.
The text with cultural details, brief summaries and glossary.
Pre-reading activities.
A wide variety of activities covering Cambridge Exam Certificates, State exams, 21st Century Skills and 2030 Agenda topics.
A final test to check what you remember.
A transcript of two of the most important scenes from the story to act out together in class.
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6 Dossier 1 H.G. Wells 10 Characters 12 Pre-reading Activities 16 Chapter 1 Introducing the Time Traveller 22 Activities 26 Chapter 2 The Adventure Begins 32 Activities 36 Chapter 3 Discovering Weena 42 Activities 46 Chapter 4 Meeting the Morlocks 52 Activities 56 Dossier 2 Time Travel in entertainment 60 Chapter 5 The Time Traveller Returns 68 Activities 72 Final Test 78 Drama 80 My Book Contents Full track Activity track
When Wells studied at Midhurst he received 21 shillings a week (a good amount of money in the 1800s), but in his diaries he said he was always hungry and was very thin.
H.G Wells: Early Life
Quick facts
Name: Herbert George Wells
AKA: H.G. Wells
Born: in Bromley, Kent, England on 21st September, 1866
Died: in Regent’s Park, London, England on 13th August, 1946 (aged 79)
Education: Royal College of Science, London
Key works: The Time Machine (1895), The Red Room (1896), The Invisible Man (1897)
Herbert George Wells was born at 162, High Street in Bromley, Kent on 21st September 1866. His family called him ‘Bertie’. He was the last child of Joseph Wells, a shopkeeper and professional cricketer and Sarah Neal, a domestic servant.
In the late 19th century, many lower-class men and women worked as domestic servants in big houses.
Wells’ mother was the housekeeper at Uppark House.
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Wells read books from an early age and some of his later novels, The History of Mr Polly and Kipps, talked about the time he worked as a draper between 1880 and 1883. Later, in 1887, Wells went to Uppark in Sussex, a country house where his mother was working and spent hours in its magnificent library.
A person who makes things from cloth and sells them.
Teacher and Scholar
In 1879, Wells joined the National School at Wookey in Somerset. He was a senior student but also a teacher of the younger children. Later in 1883, he worked at Midhurst Grammar School and in 1884 he won a scholarship to study biology at what is now the Royal College of Science in London.
Capron House, North Street, Midhurst. The original Midhurst Grammar School building is now partly occupied by the South Downs National Park Authority.
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The History of Mr Polly was a comic novel.
The blue commemorative plaque in Midhurst marking Wells’ stay at the school.
‘Our true nationality is mankind.’
The Time Machine is considered one of the first works of science fiction.
Early writing
In the late 1890s, Wells started writing short humorous articles for newspapers such as The Pall Mall Gazette to make some money. This was his first step into writing and journalism, but much of this work is now lost. His success as a writer encouraged him to write something longer and his first novel,
The Time Machine, was published in 1895. His early novels were called ‘scientific romances’and set his style as the ‘father’of science fiction. He went on to write other novels, such as The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1897), and The First Men in the Moon (1901).
Personal Life
Wells married his cousin, Isabel Mary Wells in 1891 but they separated in 1894. In 1895, he married Amy Catherine Robbins and moved to Woking in Surrey. Here he was most creative and he wrote many of his most famous novels.
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Amy Catherine Robbins
Later Life
Wells published The Outline of History in 1920. This was his best selling work and was a threevolume study from prehistory to World War 1. Later in his life, he also became interested in politics and films. He went to Hollywood and in 1936 produced a film called Things to Come which was a journey from the next world war into the future. He also travelled to Russia and met Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. Wells worked until very close to his death in 1946 and is remembered as an author, historian and social idealist.
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‘We all have our time machines, don’t we. Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams.’
‘If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.’
The Martian Tripod statue from The War of the Worlds in Woking, Surrey, designed by Michael Condron.
T he T ime T raveller
We don’t know the name of the Time Traveller but we do know that the Time Traveller is an inventor and he is fascinated by the future.
T he m orlocks
The Morlocks are the antagonists of the story. Ape-like and dirty, they live underground and the Time Traveller hates them.
T he N arraTor
Mr Hillyer is the narrator of the story and one of the Time Traveller’s dinner guests.
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Characters
W eeNa
Weena is one of the Eloi. She is a happy, affectionate character and becomes the Time Traveller’s friend.
T he D i NN er gues T s
The dinner guests are a small group of upper-class Victorian men.
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Vocabulary – Writing
1 Look at the picture on the front cover of this book. What can you see? Write 35 words.
Vocabulary – Matching
2 Match the words from Chapter 1 to the pictures.
1 three dimensions in space:
4 shelf length (X), width (Y) and height (Z)
2 lever
3 streetlamp
5 cube
6 workshop
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a d b e c f X Y Z
Vocabulary – Writing
3 Complete the description of the story with the words in the box.
underground dinner guests friends adventures creatures
It’s 1895 and Mr Hillyer goes to (1) at a famous inventor’s house. The inventor is called the Time Traveller in the story and Mr Hillyer tells us about the Time Traveller’s (2) in his Time machine. The Time Traveller tells his dinner (3) that he went into the future to the year 802,701 and found a land full of child-like (4) called the Eloi. He made (5) with one of the them, Weena, and also discovered some other creatures that lived (6) . His dinner guests don’t know if they believe him or not…
Wordsearch
4 Find five characters from the story in the wordsnake. Then write the correct name under each picture.
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NARRATORWE E N ADINNERG U ESTSTIMETRAVELLERTHEMO R LOCKS A _________________ C D _________________ B _________________ E _________________
Writing
5 Look at the pictures of the Time Traveller and some other characters from the story. Write a short description of them
1 The Narrator
The Narrator is
2 The Time Traveller
The Time Traveller is
3 Weena
Weena is
Prediction
6 Choose the correct answer (A, B or C) for questions 1-5.
1 What is the Time Traveller’s name?
A Mr Percy B We don’t know. C Dr Mason
2 Where does the Time Traveller live?
A Edinburgh B Oxford C London
3 Weena is …
A a baby B male C female
4 The Eloi live…
A underground B above ground
C under the sea
5 The Narrator…
A is curious about the Time Traveller’s story.
B doesn’t believe the Time Traveller.
C wants to go into the future with the Time Traveller.
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7 Read the sentences about the story and guess if they are true (T) or false (F). Check your answers at the end of the book.
1 The Time Traveller works in an office.
2 The Time Traveller invites the narrator to lunch.
3 Weena is the Time Traveller’s daughter.
4 The Eloi are happy people.
5 The Morlocks live on top of a mountain.
6 The Narrator goes into the future with the Time Traveller.
Listening Comprehension
8 Listen to Chapter 1. Tick [✔] the sentences you hear.
1 I arrived at midnight.
2 The Time Traveller is an inventor…
3 You may not believe me…
4 I left the house three hours later.
5 We can travel back and forward in time!
6 What a wild idea!
7 We drink some tea.
8 We are all silent.
9 The machine is on the shelf.
10 Save some food for me.
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