The Time Machine

(1) What has the scientist invented?

(2) What does he find when he travels to year AD 802,701?

(3) What is the world thirty million years into the future like?

Answers

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

(1) They travel to the centre of the Earth.

(2) During the journey, they see a big underground ocean, a beautiful forest, ancient animals that have already disappeared in the world above.

(3) A volcano in southern Italy brings them back to the Earth's surface.

The Time Machine

(1) He has invented a machine that can take him into the future.

(2) He finds two kinds of creatures-the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi are gentle and lazy people who are served by the Morlocks. The Morlocks are a group of people who work very hard and come out in the evening to eat the Eloi.

(3) The sun no longer shines in that world, so it is cold and scary.

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Step 3 Discussion

1. Tell students that they are going to write their own science fiction stories. And ask them to read the three summaries again and answer the following question:

(1) What elements make up a story?

Answer

Time, place/setting, characters, plot/storyline

2. Ask students to read the three summaries again and find out the basic elements of each story. Divide students into three groups and each group only has to read one of the summaries.

Answer

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Time 19th century Place the centre of the Earth Characters A German professor and his nephew Plot They travel to the centre of the earth through a dead volcano and experienced a lot of unusual things there.

The Time Machine

Time AD 802, 701 millions of years later thirty million years into the future Place on the earth Characters the Time Traveller Plot The Time Traveller invented a time machine that can take him into the future. On his trip, he sees a lot of surprising and even frightening people and things.