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2. What did Time Traveller show to his friends?
3. What did he explain to his friends, when he came into the dining-room in the middle of the dinner?
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Task 5
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1. Read the extract from "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells, part II.
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THE TIME MACHINE Part II
I took the starting lever with both hands and pressed it. The laboratory became dark. Mrs. Watchett came in and walked without seeing me, towards the garden door. I suppose it took her a minute to cross the room, but it seemed to me that she shot across the room like a rocket. I turned the lever to its extreme position. Night came at once, and in another moment came tomorrow. Tomorrow night came at once, then day again, night again, faster and faster. The laboratory disappeared and I saw the sun moving very quickly across the sky, every minute marking a day. I supposed the laboratory had been destroyed, and I had come into the open air.
The speed of the Machine became greater and greater. I could not see the sun any more, the change of the day and night had turned into one continuous greyness.
I was still on the hillside, on which this house now stands. I saw trees growing and changing the colour: now brown, now green, as the seasons changed; they grew, then became old and died. I saw how huge buildings appeared and disappeared.
On my Machine I had dials with hands, which registered my speed.
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disappear — зникати
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destroyed — зруйнований
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dials with hands — циферблат зі стрілками
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