Project(1): Writing a science fiction storyppt配套的教学设计方案

Module 4

Unit 3

Project(2) Writing a science fiction story Teaching aims: 1. Students are required to understand the story. 2. Students know the basic elements of science fiction stories . 3. Students feel positive about future. Teaching important and difficult points: 1. The basic elements of science fiction stories. 2. Students feel positive about future. Teaching procedures: Step one

Lead-in 1. Brainstorming: (1). Have you ever read about or seen a film about a time machine? (2). What do you think a time machine can be used to do? (3). Many people are interested in such a machine. Can you think of the reason(s)? Step Two

Fast Reading 1. The introduction of author and his writings. 2. Questions: (1). What did the writer decide to see using the time machine the writer had made? (2). Which year did the writer go to? What did the writer find there? (3). What has the scientist invented?

(4). What is the world thirty million years into the future like?

Step There

Careful Reading 1.

Fill in each blank with only one word according to the text. How it

1.functions/works It has two white 2.handles,one taking you to the future and the past, the other 3.bringing you back in the present day. ●In the year AD 802,701, there were two 5.races —

the Eloi and the Morlocks, and the Eloi were at 6.play all day, while the Morlocks kept machines running to 7.feed the Eloi and make them happy.

What the traveller saw with the 4.aid/help of ●He then travelled 30 million years into the the Time Machine

future; there was neither wind nor waves, and there seemed to be little life.

●He travelled even 8.further into the future, and found the sun grew larger, redder and darker, and the Earth became cold and covered in 9.frost with no 10.life at all.

Step Four Activity

Discussion: 1.

If you had a time machine, what would you like to see, the future or the past? Why? What would you expect to see there?

Step Five language points 1.

some important phases: (1).speak of

提到；谈及

(2).be filled with

充满……

(3).give off

发出，放出(气味、热、光等) (4).set sail

启航

(5).all of a sudden

突然

(6).come across

发现；偶遇

(7).in the distance

在远处

(8).blow up

爆炸；引爆

(9).hold on to

紧紧握住

(10).in a flash

刹那；转眼间

(11).a secret message

机密信息；密电

(12).wander around

徘徊

(13).sit against a tree

靠着一棵树坐着

(14).at least four metres tall

至少四米高

(15).in terror

惊恐地

(16).travel into the future or the past

穿越未来或过去

(17).have the wrong impression

产生错误的印象

(18).on a beach

在海滩上

(19).in the present day

在现在

(20).explore the forest

探索森林

2. language points: (1). (教材P59) However, later I came to see that I had the wrong impression ... 然而，后来我逐渐意识到我产生了错误的印象……

impression n．印象，感想

have an impression of

对……有印象

leave/make an impression on

给……留下印象

impress vt.

给某人留下深刻的印象；使铭记

impress sth.on/upon sb.

使某人铭记某事

impress sb.with sth.

用某物给某人留下深刻印象

be impressed by/with

被……深深打动，对……印象深刻

(2).The Morlocks even tried to catch and kill me, but luckily I was able to use the Time Machine to escape. (P59,) escape vi./vt. 逃跑，避开，被遗忘

escape doing sth

He narrowly escaped being killed. 他险些丧命。

escape n. I had a narrow escape.=I was lucky to have escaped. 我是死里逃生。

Step Six Summary & Homework 1. Finish the WB exercises (B1, B2and D1, D2)

2. Finish writing a science fiction story.