way2go! 5, Schulbuch
157 Time travel is a popular theme in many sci-fi films. Read the film descriptions below and match them to the film posters. There is one extra description that you will not need. READING 15 a Do you know the title of the film for which there’s no poster? Guess what else might happen in these films. Talk in pairs. Paired activity: You and your partner are getting free tickets to watch one of these films. Discuss which of the films you might both want to see. Decide on two. b SPEAKING 16 17 A 19 th -century scientist has invented a time machine. He wants to change events in the past but instead travels 800,000 years into the future. There he finds humankind divided into two races, one living above ground, the other one living below ground … 1 It is the 23 rd century. Captain Kirk and his crew are on a mission to save the Earth from being destroyed. They travel back in time to San Francisco in 1986 and are surprised at what awaits them there. Their only chance to save humankind is to communicate with two humpback whales … 2 It’s the year 2029. A human-like robot is sent into the past to kill a waitress whose unborn son will lead humankind in a war against the robots. At the same time a soldier from that war is sent into the past to protect her … 3 A 15-year-old American teenager gets into a racing car that functions as a time machine. He accidentally lands in the time when his parents are about to fall in love with each other … 4 Two fun-loving teenage boys have to do a research project in history in order to pass the year. Luckily, they get help from a time traveller who lends them his time machine (a telephone booth). They travel back and forth in time, where they meet fascinating personalities such as Billy the Kid and Napoleon and survive numerous adventures … 5 Natural catastrophes make living on Earth impossible. There is only one way to make sure humankind will survive – NASA pilot Cooper will have to travel through time and space in search of a new planet that is similar to Earth. But he has to leave his family behind … 6 A B C D E Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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