The Time Machine. Машина времени. Адаптированная книга на английском

I stopped the lever.

I sat in flowers. It was rainy and I was wet[9 - wet – [wet] – мокрый]. There was a big monument of sphinx near me and my time machine. I also saw some white creatures[10 - creature – [?kri?t??r] – создание, живое существо]. They had rich clothes and they looked at me.

The strange creatures came to me. They said something but it wasn't English. They touched[11 - touch – [t?t?] – касаться] my hand – they were so soft[12 - soft – [s?ft] – мягкий]! They had big eyes, small mouths and were smaller than normal people.

They smiled at me.

Maybe they were fools? But it was 802 701 year and I thought people or creatures[13 - creature – [?kri?t??r] – создание, живое существо] would be very clever in this future.

The creatures took me to their house. We all sat and they started eating fruits. There was a big room and around 200 creatures were in it. They all looked at me with interest.

After we ate, I tried to teach[14 - teach – [ti?t?] – научить] them English.

They said words after me, but then they became very tired[15 - tired – [?ta??d] – уставший]. I decided[16 - decide – [d??sa?d] – решить] that our lessons should be very short because these creatures were very lazy and they got tired very fast.

Soon I understood that these people of future were alike[17 - alike – [??la?k] – похожи]. Men and women were alike too. And they were weak[18 - weak – [wi?k] – слабый]. They had an easy life, there was no need to be strong. The fruits were better and bigger.

There weren't any dangerous animals and nobody was ill. They also didn't work.

Exercise 1. Choose the right word.

1) You need to believe/prove that a criminal really took your money.

2) When the doctor touches/teaches my leg and it hurt.

3) Some people explain/believe in UFO; some people don't.

4) I work sixteen hours every day, of course I am always tired/tried.

5) Greg didn't understand a math problem so he came to the teacher and asked him to prove/explain it.

6) Two days ago I decided/proved to learn English.

Chapter 3

One night I came outside. I looked at the moon. But then I looked at the sphinx and saw that my time machine wasn't there. I was scared[19 - scared – [ske?d] – напуган]. I started running to the sphinx. I thought, "Maybe they moved it behind the trees…" No, the time machine wasn't there.

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