Writing a science fiction story

1. M4U3 Project Writing a science fiction story 仪征中学高一英语备课组

2. Step1 Lead-in • Do you know what science fiction is? Science fiction is a type of writing based on fantasy and imagination. Science fiction writers often write about what will happen in ‘tomorrow’s world’. • Do you know any science fiction stories/films? Can you give us some examples? • Have you ever heard of Jules Verne or H.G. Wells ?

3. 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

4. H G Wells(1866-1946) • As an English novelist, H.G. Wells is well known for his science fiction stories. • The Time Machine • The Invisible Man • The War in the Air • The War of the Worlds

5. Zheng Wenguang(1929-2003) • He is regarded as the father of Chinese science fiction. • Famous works: 飞向人马座 大洋深处 神翼 战神的后裔

6. Step 2 Journey to the Centre of the Earth First reading 1863 the centre of the Earth a professor, his nephew and a guide They travel to the centre of the earth through a volcano and experienced a lot of unusual things there.

7. Second reading 1. Professor Lindenbrock made the journey with his nephew Aexl and Hans, the guide he hired in Ireland. 2. They went to the centre of the Earth. They went there in the boat they built. 3. They saw many strange things——a large ocean in a vast room, huge mushrooms, two dinosaurs fighting each other, huge insects and many strange creatures, including a man, who was at least four meters tall. 4. They made a bomb to blow up the rocks and their boat rushed wildly forward into a large hole. 5. The two dinosaurs rose to the ocean suddenly and fought each other. 1. With whom did Professor Lindenbrock make the journey? 2. What was the destination of the journey? How did they go there？ 3. What did they see during their journey？ 4. How did they go out of the exit？ 5. Which do you think was the most frightening experience during their journey? Why?

8. speak of get…packed hire a guide on the shores of this ocean be filled with gas give out light set sail all of a sudden be sunk by be blocked by rush wildly forward into hold on to the boat in terror reach the bottom of the hole Language points • 提及 • 把……打包 • 雇佣一个向导 • 在海滨 • 充满气体 • 发出光 • 起航 • 突然 • 被……击沉 • 被……堵塞 • 向前冲 • 紧紧抓住船 • 惊恐地 • 到达洞地底部

9. Step 3 The Time Machine Analyze the structure of the article Part 1 §1 Here is my Time Machine Part 2 §2-5 A travel to the _______ Part 3 §6 Back to the ________day future present

10. Part 2 §2-5 A travel to the future handle foggy • As I pulled one ______, the world became ______. Time _______ by and everything changed quickly. Finally, I arrived in an old and _________city. • In the year AD 802701, mankind had ________into two races. The Eloi were small and like children ________ the Morlocks looked like white beasts. • I found that I had the wrong ______________. The Morlocks were the real _________. They took care of the Eloi in order to kill and eat them. • In order to ________ from being killed by the Morlocks, I traveled 30 million years into the future. However, there was no life or __________ at all. zipped worn evolved while impression masters escape movement

11. Step 4 Writing • If you have a chance to travel in the time machine, where will you go and what will happen? • Please write down your own science fiction story according to what we learned above.

12. Step 5 Revising your story • Exchange your science fiction story with your partner. • Discuss it and make some changes.

13. Step 5 Revising your story Planning • Time and place: • Characters: • Things you met: • Plot : Producing

14. Step 6 Presentation

15. Step 7 Homework • Find out some language points in the second article. • Exchange your story with your classmates and enjoy them.