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visit teacherloop.co.uk.uk.uk.uk. UK. Okay. that I'm doing doing in which I'm reading extracts from the classic science fiction

story War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells and let me just check that the audio is

working the audio appears to be working.

So let's begin, I'm going to put my headphones on, whoops,

so I can monitor the sounds that I'm recording.

Okay, so here we go. So this is part three of the War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. I'm not reading the entire story, just extracts of it. And yes, this is the third and final part so please make sure that you have

watched or listened to parts one and two before you check this one out okay

links for the other two if you're watching this on YouTube you'll find links to the other two. If you're watching this on YouTube, you'll find links to the other two parts of this story in the description.

So obviously you've got to check out parts one and two before this one. All right, so let's carry on and I'm just going to give you a recap of the story so far.

Okay, just to keep you, just to bring you up to speed.

So basically, without realizing it, the people of Earth have been attacked by an aggressive

alien species from Mars, with the intention of colonizing our planet while escaping their home planet

which has become uninhabitable.

The Martians are vastly superior to us in terms of their intelligence and technology.

They're also unfriendly, very unfriendly. Humans are now reduced to the status of

mere animals or insects in the presence of these things. Human society has quickly turned

to chaos and destruction as the Martians begin their campaign to take our planet.

The aliens first landed in a cylinder which fell from space with a green flash.

After the cylinder opened, revealing the visitors to be awkward and clumsy in our atmosphere,

their technology proved to be devastatingly powerful.

They are armed with a heat ray which they've used to clear out all life surrounding the

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