Why Not Jump On Board The Time Machine This Summer?

by Michael Hartland

AS ENGLISH TUTORS, we are always looking for ways to inspire and nurture excellence - which is at the heart of the ethos of Hartland Educational Consultancy Services.

Many students are limited in their writing because they just haven’t encountered the wide range of vocabulary and sentence structures used by classic authors.  Without good models to imitate, it’s hard to write well.  

I’ve used The Time Machine by H.G.Wells with both British and international students, and teenagers find it fascinating.  After reading Chapter 1 recently, a tutee immediately started to use some of the new vocabulary like “incandescent” and “introspective”.

Here’s an extract from the novel where the Time Traveller experiences journeying into the future:

“I am afraid I cannot convey the peculiar sensations of time travelling. They are excessively unpleasant. There is a feeling exactly like that one has upon a switchback of a helpless headlong motion! I felt the same horrible anticipation, too, of an imminent smash. As I put on pace, night followed day like the flapping of a black wing. The dim suggestion of the laboratory seemed presently to fall away from me, and I saw the sun hopping swiftly across the sky, leaping it every minute, and every minute marking a day…”

Why not jump on board The Time Machine and read this great novel this summer?

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