Mission﹕Start a time travel!

A Wrinkle in Time, written by Madeleine L'Engle, is the best-selling title of Amazon Children's Time Travel Books. It is about a girl travelling in an adventure through time and space with her younger brother to rescue their scientist father.

【明報專訊】The Smarties have discovered that they cannot avoid fighting with Eason even they are on a time travel journey. How sad it is!

Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the following words.

element / escape /desire / character

Do you love the idea of (1)______________ to another place in time? If you do, you would surely love reading time travel novels. Time travel is a common (2)______________ of fiction. For instance, it is included in A Christmas Carol and Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban.

In these novels, there are usually devices which help their (3)______________ to travel to the past or future. They may step through a magic door or wardrobe like the characters in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe or make use of a machine which take them to the places they (4)______________ to go to.

■English highway-words and collocations

"For instance" has the same meaning as "for example".

e.g. He's not a punctual person. For instance, he was an hour late for the meeting yesterday.

■Vocab Cards

Collect them all!

journey (n) 旅程

amazed (adj) 感到驚奇

time machine (n) 時光機

forward (adv) 向前

■Glossary

in time (prep phr) 及時

device (n) 器具

best-selling (adj) 暢銷的

rescue (v) 營救

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