Time Machine by HG Wells, 1895.
Corrections
Which social class would you say these people correspond to? upper class
Justify with elements from the text.
There is marble sculptures and a huge entry and they wear silk.
5- What does it reveal about the writer’s idea of time?
For him, the upper class will become lazy, stupid and passive.
They don’t make any efforts, everything is left unrepaired and they don’t work.
| About… | architecture | interior design | flowers | food | clothes | diets | …size ? | Language / voices / communication |
| Positive | Huge entry / colossal / big open / | Richely cared for / polished / marble | Delightful | Brightly clad / bright / soft / silky | Delighful / vegetarian / frugivorous | Huge / big / open / colossal / | Melodious / laughing | |
| Negative | Shadowy/ mysterious | Fractured / badly broken / weather-worn / think with dust / dilapidated | Strange | Hypertrophied / strange | Dingy 19th century / grotesque | Little | ||
| Not Specified | Inumerable | Floury | floury | tall |
TIME MACHINE VIDEO QUIZ
1- Who wrote The Time Machine? H G Wells (1895)
2- The author worked as an apprentice to help his family and studied science
3- The story was inspired by a short story called the Chronic Argonauts
4- The story belongs to the subgenre of dying Earth
5- The Time Machine is set during the late 19th century
6- The traveller goes to the future year 802 701 Anno Domini
7- The traveller meets 2 species the Elois and the Morlocks
8- He gets close to Weena
9- He warns his friends about a negative evolution of humanity
10- The traveller is an anonymous scientist
11- His friends think he is unreliable and joking
12- The Elois are graceful but limited in terms of intelligence
13- The Morlocks live underground / they are the opposite of the Eloi / they work hard and are clever
14 – The writer questions science, time and technology
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