The Time Machine

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
- What do you know?
- What could it be about?

What would you do if you could travel through time?
- What time period?
- Where?

H.G Wells

- Poor

- Biology

- Teacher

- Fiction and non-Fiction

- Science fiction

- Nobel Prize

a structure of metal poles and wooden
boards put against a building on which workers
stand to reach the higher parts of the building

causing or having a very sharp feeling
of sadness

a feeling of excitement about
something that is going to happen in the near
future

the speed of something in a particular
direction

a part of a machine or device that
shows you a measurement such as speed or time

unusual and strange, sometimes in an
unpleasant way

a gas or extremely small drops of
liquid that result from the heating of a liquid or
solid

an improvement or development in
something

a number of similar events or people
that happen, exist, etc. after each other

when prices, levels of water or interest
rates go up and down

The Time Machine features two narrators: the narrator,
who sets the scene and returns at the end, and the
Time Traveller, who recounts his adventure. Examples
of similar narrators include Dr Watson in Sherlock
Holmes and Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby.

What are the benefits of having a story told by
just one narrator instead of a lot of different
characters? What are the disadvantages? Think
about other books you’ve read to use as examples.