unit 3 tomorrow’s world project writing a science fiction story

Unit 3 Tomorrow’s worldUnit 3 Tomorrow’s world

Project Writing a science fiction story

Teaching aims: 教学目标：

1. know about a science fiction story

2.Improve our writing ability. 3.do teamwork and learn to

cooperate with each other.

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Is it possible for us to live so long now?

It is a type of writing based on

fantasy

imagination

Science fiction writers often write about

what will happen in ‘Tomorrow’s World’.

Have you ever read any science fictions?

Which one is your favorite one?

Star wars

The alien

Names:

众神之黄昏 师士传说 仙之机甲 骄阳 戒指传奇 星航 基地系列 星空战纪 星河有泪 文明 未火之来

Reading: Fill in the form

Novel Writer Year Plot

Journey to the Center of the Earth

The Time Machine

Jules Verne 1864professor/nephew/take a journey to

H G Wells 1895 scientist/invented/In the future

Where do the German professor and his nephew travel?

What do they see during their journey?

How do they come back to the world above?

To the center of the earth.

They see a big underground ocean, a beautiful forest, ancientAnimals that have disappeared in the world.

A volcano in southern Italy brings them back to the Earth.

For the first summary:

For the second summary:

What has the scientist invented?

What does he find when he travels to year AD 802,701?

What is the world thirty million years into the future like?

A machine that can take him into the future.

Two kinds of creatures-the Eloi and the Morlocks.

The sun no longer shines in that world, so it is cold and scary

Science fiction is a kind of story, do you still remember the basic elements of stories? What are they?

a certain time period

a place

main characters

a plot

a problem to be solved

a surprise ending

What features does science fiction have?

Science fiction is a type of writing

1. based on fantasy .

2. often write about what will happen

in ‘tomorrow’s world’.

Language points:

Line7: come across the Central Sea

phrases of COME: come about 发生，出现 come at 扑向 come down 下跌 / 落 / 降传下来 come in/ into 进来 come into (sight/being/existence/use/notice/effect) come on 来临 / 快点 ( 表激励 )/ 得了 ( 表厌烦 ) come out ( 书被 ) 出版， ( 消息 , 秘密被 ) 传出 , 结果是 come along 一道来，赶快 come to 达到 (an end/an agreement/a stop/a conclusion), 苏醒，合计，总共是 come over 走过来 come up 走近 , 被提出 ( 讨论 ) come up with 某人提出… come across 偶然碰到 come back 回想起 come from 来自，源自

1) How did it come _______ that you both got lost? I thought you had a map. 2) It suddenly came ______ to me where I had seen the boy before. 3) Come ________ now, or else we shall be late. 4) He came ________ me like a tiger. 5) The price of petrol has come _______ since the beginning of this year. 6) The word came _______ use many years ago. 7) When the examination result came ______, he had already got a job. 8)The bill came _______over a thousand dollars. 9) He came up to me and told me that the issue security came_____ at the meeting just now. 10)The truth has come out that her new book will come______ soon.

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Line 24: Scared and cold, the Time Traveller starts back towards the present. 又惊又冷，时光旅游者踏上了回到现在的旅程。

scared, cold 是形容词作伴随状语。形容词和形容词短语作伴随状语 , 表主语实施谓语动作时伴随的状态。一位妇女躺在床上，没有睡着，静听着那急急的风声。 One woman was lying in bed, awake, listening to the rushing

winds. 他们强行冲进叔父的卧室，发现那个男人躺在地板上，已经死了。They broke into the uncle's bedroom and found the man lying on

the floor, dead.

Let’s write ourown science

fiction

characters

time

place (setting)

storylinetopic

Time : In 2050

Topic :Future education

Storyline: What will happen in an interesting English class?

Characters: English teacher (or robot) and students

Place (setting) :in HongXiang Middle School

Homework

Finish the WB exercises(B1, B2, D1, D2) Revise some language points of this period.

Jules Verne(1828-1905) As a popular French writer,

Jules Verne is regarded as the father of science fiction. His famous science fiction stories are: Journey to the Center of the Earth; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, Five Weeks in the Balloon, and From the Earth to the Moon.

H G Wells(1866-1946) As an English novelist,

H G wells is well known for his science fiction stories, among which are The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War in the Air and The war of the Worlds.

He is regarded as the father of Chinese science fiction.