Project(1): Writing a science fiction story教学设计内容推荐

M4U3Project 导学案

Teaching aims:

To learn what a science fiction story is like and how to write a science fiction story.

Teaching important and difficult points:

How to make students understand the science stories better.

How to write a science fiction story.

Teaching procedures: Step 1 lead-in

Step 2 Reading

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Read the first story written by Jules Verne. Then answer the following questions.

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.

Which do you think was the most thrilling experience during their journey, why？

1.Professor Lindenbrock made the journey with his nephew Axel and Hans, the guide he hired in Iceland.

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 metres tall.

4.The two dinosaurs rose to the surface of the ocean suddenly and fought each other. Because they didn’t expect that they would see dinosaurs there, since dinosaurs died out millions of years ago.

Time machine

1.

Lead to the second science fiction story.

•

Have you ever read about or seen a film about a time machine?

•

What do you think a time machine can be used to do?

•

Many people are interested in such a machine. Can you think of the reason(s)?

2.

Ask them to read the story and think about the following questions.



What did the writer decide to see using the time machine the writer had made?



Which year did the writer go to? What did the writer find there?



The writer described a picture about the future. What is his idea about the future of the world? What is your opinion about the future?

Step 3 Consolidation

Step 4

DiscussionTask based reading. English weekly: Issue46

Edition 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 5 Homework

1.Finish the WB exercises (B1, B2and D1, D2)

2.Finish writing a science fiction story.

Language points

1. In my opinion , it is about time we had new computers.

在我看来，我们应该有新的电脑了。

It is (high / about ) time (that)后面的从句谓语动词通常用过去时表示现在或将来，有时也用“should +动词原形”（should不可省略），

其意为“（早）

该干……事了”。

拓展：It is time (for sb.) to do sth.

到了（某人）做某事

的时间了

It is time for sth.

该做某事了

某人第几次做……

It / This / That is / will be

+ the first / second … time (that)+ sb have done sth

It / This / That was + the first / second … time (that)+sb had done

Exercise: 1) I think it’s time (that) you went to bed.

------ I think it’s time ________________________.

2) I used to go camping a lot , so it won’t be the first time ____________________.(睡帐篷)

3）It’s high time the government ___________ measures to help the graduates.

A. takes

B. took

C. will take

D. has taken

for you to go to bed

I have slept in a tent

B

2. At first , I thought that the Eloi had forced the Morlocks to do all of the work so that the Eloi could

play. 一开始，我认为爱罗伊人强迫摩洛克人去做所有的工作，以便于爱罗伊人能够玩耍。

so that 在句中引导目的状语从句。

so that 用作连接词，有以下两种用法：

1）

引导目的状语从句，意为“以便”，常与can / could / may 等情态动词连用。

Please speak clearly so that _________________________________.(他们能听清你的话)

2) 引导结果状语从句，意思是“因此、以致”

He was badly hurt so that ___________________________________(他只好被送往医院)

拓展：

so +形容词或副词+ that …. 引导的结果状语从句，

意思是“如此……以致……”

When the football fans saw Beckham , they got so excited that they cried out.

____________________________________________

Exercise:

He drank too much yesterday evening _________ he ran into another car while driving home.

A.

so that

B. in fact

C. as a result of

D instead

they may understand you

he had to be taken to hospital

当球迷们看到贝克汉姆的时候，他们如此激动以至于大喊大叫。

A

巩固训练

一．单词拼写

1.

The ______ (功能) of the ear is to listen.

2.

We don’t want to ______ (雇用) inexperienced worked.

3.

The ______ (编辑) remarked that article was well written.

4.

She is _______ (不断地) changing her mind.

5.

Don was appointed the _______ (主要的) engineer of the project.

6.

He emphasized the ________ (重要性) of careful driving.

7.

Her gentleness has given me a deep ______ （印象）。

8.

There wasn’t enough water to __________ (漂浮) the ship.

9.

Steve and I managed to _______ (逃脱) unharmed.

10. The plane flew _______ (向上) and out of sight.

1.function

2. hire

3. editor

4. constantly

5.chief

6.importance

7.impression

8.float

9. escape

10.upwards

二．单选

1.

As you ______ new words in context, it is a very good method for you to guess their meanings.

A.

come about

B. come across

C. come out

D. come up

2.

His father ordered him to _____ and go if he was always crazy about the Internet games and smoking.

A. pick up

B. make up

C. bring up

D. pack up

3. ----Do you know this coastal city at all?

----- No, this is the first time that I ____ here.

A. was

B. have been

C. came

D. coming

4. John shut everybody out of the kitchen ______ he could prepare his grand surprise for the party.

A. which

B. when

C. so that

D. such that

5. The young man acted strangely during the interview. He made a bad ______ on the employer.

A. impression

B. expression

C. experience

D. opinion

6. His wife is ______ finding fault with him, which makes him very angry.

A. constantly

B. consequently

C. extremely

D. consistently

7. Henry escaped ______ by admitting his mistake.

A. being punished

B. having been punished

C. having punished

D. punishing

8. The new research

team was led by the ______ engineer.

A. main

B. major

C. chief

D. primary

9. ______ seemed as if nobody knew anything about the matter.

A. This

B. That

C. It

D. One

10. How can the students carry on with the listening test with all that loud noise _____?

A. going on

B. goes on

C. went on

D. to go on

11. He appeared _______ with our team’s performance.

A. satisfying

B. to be satisfying

C. to satisfy

D. satisfied

12. On the eve of the Spring Festival, parents always _______ lucky money to their children.

A. give up

B. give in

C. give out

D. give off

13. You should ______ your old furniture, because it will be useful some day.

A. hold back

B. hold on to

C. hold up

D. hold out

14. The lawyer listened with full attention, _______ to miss any point.

A. not trying

B. trying not

C. to try not

D. not to try

15. It was a really _____ experience. Afterwards everybody was very _____.

A. terrifying; shocking

B. terrified; shocking

C. terrifying; shocked

D. terrified; shocked

16.The school advisers help you talk through your

problems but they don’t give you any direct __________.

A. solution

B. target

C. measure

D. function

17. Henry escaped _______ by admitting his mistake.

A. being punished

B. having been punished

C. having punished

D. punishing

18. It was a really ____ experience .Afterwards everybody was very ___.

A. terrifying ; shocking

B. terrified ; shocking

C. terrifying ; shocked

D. terrified ; shocked

19. As a candidate , you must make a good ___________ on everyone you meet if you want to win the election.

A. decision

B. situation

C. impression

D. position