Read the questions first, then the passage.
Answer in complete sentences.
Look at the question words and mark allocation as a guide to answer
the Questions.
Highlight important words in the questions and passage.
Questions: Answer these questions in your notebook.
1. Use a dictionary and find suitable definitions for all the underlined
words In the passage. (5)
2. What type of technology is mentioned in this story? (1)
3. Describe the future in the year 10 000? (2)
4. Name the two groups of people that The Time Traveller meets in the
year 8000. (2)
5. List two characteristics for each group of people? (2)
6. Why did The Time Travellers’ friends not believe in a fourth dimension?
(2)
7. Who became friends with The Time Traveller? (1)
8. What do you think happened to The Time Traveller, because he never
Returned with the evidence to show his friends? (2)
Language:
9. Find a synonym, from the listed paragraph, for each word below: (3)
a. Construction – paragraph 2
b. Scared – paragraph 4
c. Proof – paragraph 9
10. Find an antonym, from the listed paragraph, for each word below:
(2)
a. Enemy – paragraph 5
b. Started – paragraph 3
The Time Machine
1. The Time Traveller is a British gentleman, living in the 19 th
century, who Builds a time machine.
2. At the beginning of the story he is having dinner with friends.
He explains His theory, that time is the fourth dimension. His
friends argue that this Cannot be true because you cannot
move through time like you can move Through space. The
Time Traveller tells his friends that he is busy building A time
machine and that he will have evidence of time travel within
a week. His friends don’t believe him, but agree to meet for
dinner again that following Thursday.
3. When his friends arrive the next Thursday, The Time
Traveller greets them With an amazing story. He tells them
that he finished his time machine that morning, and set off
for the future. At first, all he noticed was how fast the
Machine was going, but after a while, he was able to look at
what was Happening around him. He stopped the machine in
the year 8000 and got Out to explore.
4. The Time Traveller met two groups of people, the Eloi, who
live above Ground, but are afraid of the night and live in fear
of the other, and the Morlocks, who live in caves below the
surface of the Earth and seem to Hunt the Eloi.
5. The Time Traveller met an Eloi called Seena, who became his
friend. The Morlocks tried to steal his time machine, but he
managed to escape by Pulling a lever. His time machine took
him even further into the future, to The year 10 000. When
he got out, he discovered that there was no Civilisation left
and Earth seemed to be dying. He was saddened by this And
got back into his time machine and went home.
6. His friends listen to his story, but do not believe him, so he
gets into his Time machine, intending to bring back some
evidence, but he disappears, Never to return.
Taken from The Time Machine, by H.G Wells
