In
this reading, there are three primary objectives:
1—You
will develop your awareness of the use of articles.
2—You will increase your
reading comprehension.
3—You will expand your working vocabulary.
These
objectives are facilitated by the following activities:
1—Reading the following part of the radio broadcast script.
2—Seeing photographs
from the movie that illustrate the story.
3—Noticing required articles by interactively
revealing articles after the "mouseover" of highlighted spaces.
4—Accessing short vocabulary definitions
of selected words and phrases (those underlined in blue).
5—Getting vocabulary definitions from the internet for words you choose.
6—Checking your reading comprehension
by doing the interactive quiz at the end (self-testing).
And, I hope you have some fun too! —Skip Reske
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The Time Machine
End of last part:
GEORGE: What is it!
DAVID: I felt hands! Cold hands!
GEORGE: Take one of these ladders
DAVID: Yes, give it to me.
GEORGE: Use it asweapon! Hitthing with it!
[SCREAMS FROM MORLOCK ARE HEARD]
GEORGE: David they're here beside me!
GEORGE: Useladder, man, useladder!
DAVID: They're all around us!
GEORGE: This way! Follow me this way, back this way.
Part 4
[DAVID DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED NEXT]
DAVID: We went back in the dark,
running and fighting every step as we went.
Back toladder
and climbing up again.
Up toward
daylight and freedom. Away from their stench and their
icy hands. And they did not follow us because daylight was their enemy,
and their great fear. They could only live in darkness.
And so we continued to live in the lush
gardens oflittle people
like prisoners, like men who are dead though
they still walkearth. Becausetime
machine was locked away behind great brass doors and we could never
leave.
Then one
day, Weena told us ofold
building,ancient building
that had survived through many ages and was filled with
many strange and unusual objects.
GEORGE:museum! That's what it must be!museum, David! Perhaps from
some earlier time!
DAVID: I'm in no mood to go looking at museum.
GEORGE: Don't you see? Perhaps
there are things, weapons, machinery. Something we can use!
DAVID: Yes! Yes of course! If we could find some dynamite or gunpowder
or something!
GEORGE: We could blast those doors! We could get in!
DAVID: Where is this place, Weena? This old building that no one ever
goes near?
WEENA: I will take you, it is not far.
DAVID:chance, old man!small
one butchance, nonetheless!
[DAVID DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED NEXT]
DAVID: All day we wandered throughgreat
ruined halls.building
had been deserted, unused for perhapscentury.
It was late afternoon and growing dark when we came tochemical
section. We had found nothing useful to us until then. Now cameworst
disappointment of all.
GEORGE: And it's dust. All of it. It's been dust for centuries. It's
hopeless. We were out of our minds to hope that explosives would survive
forhundred-thousand
years.
WEENA: Can we go now? If nothing is here?
GEORGE: Wait, justmoment. There's something in this case.
DAVID: Well, you can break it with your lever.
GEORGE: Stand backlittle.
[SOUND OF GLASS BREAKING]
GEORGE:box of matches. Sealed
inglass jar.
DAVID: Wait, let me see. Why they're perfect! They're not even damp !
GEORGE: What should we do with them? We can't burn down brass
doors.
DAVID: Well, you'd better keep them, you never know when you might need
them.
GEORGE: David!
DAVID: What.
GEORGE: On floor,
you see them? Small, narrow footprints leading away intodarkness at end
of this passage!
WEENA: George!
DAVID: We'd better go!
GEORGE: Pick Weena up and carry her. We're going to have to makerun
for it!
DAVID: Now, don't be frightened, my dear!
[SOUNDS MADE BY MORLOCK ARE HEARD
DAVID: It'll be alright.
GEORGE: Go on ! Run!
[DAVID DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED NEXT]
DAVID: We came out ofgloom of that place intodeeper
gloom of dusk, and suddenly we saw. We were trapped, that we couldn't escape! All
around us wereMorlock.
They were there bythousands!
Surrounding us and coming closer.long
even line of deathly white, their eyes blinking and their
tiny mouths alive with hunger.
GEORGE: David!matches frommuseum!
DAVID: I havematches.
GEORGE: Lightfire here.forest
is dry. Hurry man! We'll havehuge fire
here in minute!Morlock don't like light, or heat.
[DAVID DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED NEXT]
DAVID:fire leaped high insky andcountry side was
on fire.Morlock turned in fear,
blinded bylight. Some of them,
not being able to see, ran intoflames.rest
just ran away in all directions and disappeared from view.
George and I ran downlong
corridor betweenflames. We ran towardssafety ofcommunity
oflittle
people,Eloi.
As we ran, we passedhuge
monument with its great bronze doors
that were locked tight. And
suddenly, in light
ofdistant fire, we saw
something that made us quickly stop.
GEORGE: They're open! David --doors are open!
WEENA: No! Don't go in ! George,
no!
DAVID: It'strick! They're
waiting for us inside!
GEORGE: Waiting or not, we're going in !
DAVID: George, it's suicide!
GEORGE: Ifmachine is okay, it'll take me one minute to screwlevers on again,
then I touch them and we're away!
DAVID: Alright, I'll try to give you your one minute.
GEORGE: Good boy!
WEENA: No! Don't go! Don't leave me!
DAVID: (still carrying Weena) Now you, you my dear, you hold me tight
around my neck. You're coming home with us.
GEORGE: Alright. Let's go! Oh! Look atmachine!
They haven't harmed it!
DAVID: I don't see them, yet.
GEORGE: Come on now, quickly!
[LOUD SOUND]
DAVID:doors, George! They're closed!
GEORGE: Ah, get in seat. I'll be ready in moment.
[DAVID DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED NEXT]
DAVID: I waited forsound oftime machine starting. There in darknessMorlock were
finally upon us. I could feel cold fingers over my body. Holding my arms
and legas and trying to pull me
away frommachine.
I held tight to Weena and
tried to kick them away with my feet.
WEENA: David, David!
DAVID: Hurry, George, hurry!
GEORGE: I must fix these levers quickly or we're done!
[SOUND OF TIME MACHINE STARTING]
GEORGE: There, David, we're away, we're gone!
DAVID: Yes, yes, we made it!
GEORGE: Are you alright!
DAVID: I'm alright!
GEORGE: Good. And Weena?
DAVID: Weena isn't with us.
GEORGE: What happened?
DAVID: They pulled her from my hands.last
minute. They got her. I tried to save her, I couldn't. I still havepiece
of her tunic here in my fist.little
piece of her pink tunic, George. Nothing else.
[DAVID DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED NEXT]
DAVID: And so we came home again. Back intovery
minute in which
we had left. Back 9:23 onnight of December 31, 1899.
We were in George's laboratory again,
motionless. Sitting on ridiculous
contraption which he has called "The Time Machine".
Was it
alldream?
Did any of it happen? Could any of it happen? Of course not. How stupid.
But what about this? What about this piece of thin, pink silk
I hold in my hand?
The End
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