WorksheetsPre-reading (The Third Level)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Who coined the term "time machine" to describe a mechanism used to transport a traveller through time?
Jules Verne
Mark Twain
William Shakespeare
Washington Irving
Herbert George Wells
What was the name of the television series (1996 - 2000) in which the main character receives a newspaper from one day in the future every day?
Tomorrow's Tales
The Paradox Papers
Next Day News
The Day to Come
Early Edition
In the movie The Final Countdown (1980), what travels through time?
a steam-powered train
an aircraft carrier
a passenger airplane
a battleship
a zeppelin
The genre of The Time Machine is science-fiction. What is the definition of genre?
a category of art or literature that groups works based on style or content
refers to the length of the book
refers to the time period when the book was written.
a category of art or literature that groups works based on their difficulty level.
What does this image represent?
Society
Time Machine
Status Quo
Reminiscing
What does this image represent?
Past
Research Facility
Society
Future
A word that means the same as 'escape' is
flee
run away
capture
Both 1&2
What do people want to escape?
Escape from the present to the past.
Some people want to escape from the reality of their lives.
Some people long for simpler, less stressful times.
All of the above
How do people escape?
Escape from reality by reading
Daydreaming
Losing oneself in a hobby
All of the above
(a) can be a means of escape for some people to go either to the past or the future.
