Unit 3 Tomorrow’s world Project Writing a science fiction story

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Brainstorming  What do you imagine the future will be like?  Have you ever read any science fictions? Which one is your favorite one?

Reading Skimming Which story sounds the most/least interesting to you? Why?

Scanning Fill in the form NovelWriterYearPlot Journey to the Center of the Earth The Time Machine Flying to Centaurus Jules Verne1864 professor/nephew/ take a journey to H G Wells1895 scientist/invented/ In the future Zheng Wenguang 1978 adventure/spaceship/ planet

Reading in detail: For the first summary:  Where do the German professor and his nephew travel to?  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, ancient Animals that have disappeared in the world. A volcano in southern Italy brings them back to the Earth.

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

For the third summary:  What has happened to the three young people?  How do they come back to the earth? They are trapped in a lost spaceship. They teach themselves astrophysics and with the help of force from a black whole, they are able to guide the lost spaceship safely back to the Earth.

Jules Verne( )  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( )  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.

Zheng Wenguang( ) He is regarded as the father of Chinese science fiction.

Post-reading discussion (group work) Try to make up your own science fiction story.

Finish project (group work)  Planning  In the groups of four, choose a topic for their group’s science fiction story.(eg. Future education)  Preparing  Take notes of the story:  Time and place(setting): eg. In 2050, in No.4 Middle School  Storyline: What will happen in an interesting English class?  Characters: English teacher(or robot) and students

 Producing  Make it in turns to write the story. Each group member should write one paragraph.  Presenting  Put your story up on the display wall of the classroom for everyone to see and let the class vote for their favourite.

Homework  Finish the WB exercises(B1, B2, D1, D2)  Revise some language points of this period.  Finish the Group’s work----- writing a science fiction story.