Let’s Talk About... spreads focus on a CLIL topic and explore the context of the story. Investigate Find out about time travel in films and TV series. What are the best ones? Why? Which one is your favourite? Write your answers in your Time Detective Notebook. • Alpha Centauri: nearest group of stars to us • black hole: part of space with very strong gravity • crashing: (of vehicles) hitting something violently • creation: (in the Bible) when the world was created by God • paradox: something that seems strange or impossible because it has two opposite qualities • party: (here) group; number of people • rubber: flexible material, e.g. rubber band, rubber tyres • separate: (here) different; not connected • theory: idea that explains how something works The Twin Paradox• Imagine a pair of twins in the year 2525. One twin flies to Alpha Centauri• on a super-fast spaceship, close to the speed of light. Her sister stays on Earth. When the astronaut returns, she is a lot younger than her twin. Strange but true! Weird science According to Einstein, a huge object can change space and time in the same way that a ball can change the shape of a rubber• sheet. So, travelling near a really heavy object (like a black hole•) can change our experience of time. That’s the idea behind the movie Interstellar. Another scientific idea is the ‘wormhole’. If wormholes exist (it’s a big ‘if’!), they could join one location in space-time with another. We could enter a wormhole and come out in a completely different place and time. And that’s time travel! Investigate Find out about another famous time-travel problem, The Grandfather Paradox. Write your answers in your Time Detective Notebook. From science to science fiction H. G. Wells’s classic science fiction novel The Time Machine (1895) is considered to be the first time-travel novel. His hero travels forward in time to the year 802,701 CE. However, Wells wasn’t the first author to write about time travel. That was Enrique Gaspar, and he wrote El Anacronópete eight years earlier. His hero travels back in time, finally crashing• at the moment of creation•. Unfortunately, Gaspar’s novel wasn’t a success. Ray Bradbury’s The Sound of Thunder (1952) is an excellent short story on time travel. A party• of time-travelling tourists visit the age of the dinosaurs. There are strict rules about what they can and can’t do. Unfortunately, one tourist breaks the rules and steps on a butterfly. When they return to the present, the world is very different… 11 Time travel 9783990897928_book_Out of Maze.indd 11 03/12/21 11:33 Time travellers Liam and Rose travel through time, from adventure to adventure. But could anything like this happen in real life? Well, in one way, we are all time travellers. In our lives we travel through time from day to day and year to year. However, we’re all going in the same direction (forwards) and at the same speed. Is it possible to change this? Could we ever jump through time? Let’s look at the science! Time travel for beginners Things were simpler in the past. The brilliant scientist Isaac Newton (16431727) believed that we lived in three-dimensional (3-D) space. Our bodies, like every other object in the universe, had height, width and depth. For Newton, time was unchanging and separate• from space. And everything continued like this until Albert Einstein published his Special Theory• of Relativity in 1905 and 1915. In Einstein’s theory, space and time weren’t fixed and unchanging. Measurements of space and time depended on the speed of the person doing the measuring. Also, space and time weren’t separate. For Einstein, the fourth dimension was space-time. What does this mean for time travel? Well, his theory says that the faster you travel, the slower you experience time. And because time and space are similar, maybe we can travel through both! LET’S TALK ABOUT... 10 9783990897928_book_Out of Maze.indd 10 03/12/21 11:33 RUN, LIAM, RUN! Martyn Hobbs Recording in British English Liam and Rose fall through time and space. When they open their eyes they are on the bank of the Mississippi river in America. But are they in the past, the present or the future? The two friends quickly run into trouble when they meet Mr Jackson and the Captain… the slave catchers! When Liam is captured by the slave catchers, how can Rose help him? And who can she trust? Chuck? Miss Sayer? Clara? Join Liam and Rose, ‘The Time Detectives’, on their Mississippi adventure. THE GOLDEN MAN Martyn Hobbs Recording in British English Liam and Rose can travel in time. When they find themselves in a tropical rainforest on the edge of a perfect beach, they don’t know if they are in the past or the future. Then they meet Diamond Jack and lots of other dangerous-looking men. Are they pirates? And who is the mysterious Sir Walter? Together, can they discover the true story of the Golden Man? Join Liam and Rose, the ‘Time Detectives’, on an expedition to find El Dorado. Level 2 · A1/A2 History · Time travel 84 pages ISBN 978-3-99089-791-1 Level 2 · A1/A2 History · Time travel 84 pages ISBN 978-3-99089-129-2 THE LAST VOYAGE Martyn Hobbs Recording in British English Liam and Rose are time travellers. One day, they find themselves on an enormous ship, in the middle of a party! Soon they meet Michael, a very helpful waiter who encourages them to explore the incredible ship. Everything seems perfect. But who is Prometheus? What is it about Michael that seems so strange? Is it really a ship? And is it all too perfect? Join Liam and Rose, ‘The Time Detectives’, as they try to solve the mystery of the SS Odysseus. Level 3 · A2 Adventure · Time travel 84 pages ISBN 978-3-99089-130-8 OUT OF THE MAZE Martyn Hobbs Recording in British English In the final book of the series, Liam and Rose fall through time and space once more. This time they are trapped in a huge maze, under a hot sun, and a terrible monster is looking for them. What happens when the two friends come face-to-face with the Minotaur? And what is the mystery behind Daedalus, the man who created the maze? Join Liam and Rose, the ‘Time Detectives’, as they try to tell myth from reality on the island of Crete. Level 3 · A2 History · Time travel 84 pages ISBN 978-3-99089-792-8 35 HELBLING READERS CATALOGUE 2024 FICTION THE TIME DETECTIVES
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