Project(1): Writing a science fiction story板书设计及意图

Teaching plan of project “Writing a science fiction story”

Teaching objectives: Ss will learn what a science fiction story is like and how to write a science fiction story. Teaching procedures: Step 1 lead-in Present a movie “X-Files” to tell Ss this kind of movie is based on the science fiction story.

Brainstorming

What do you imagine the future will be like?

What do you think would make an interesting science fiction story? Step 2 reading 

Skimming Fill in the form novel writer year

plot

Journey to the Center

of the Earth The Time Machine Flying to Centaurus

More information about the three writers: 

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. 

Zheng Wenguang(1929-2003) He is regarded as the father of Chinese science fiction. 

Discussion: 

Have you read any of the stories mentioned in the reading? 

Which story sounds the most/least interesting to you? Why? II Scanning For the first summary: 1.

Where do the German professor and his nephew travel to? 2.

What do they see during their journey? 3.

How do they come back to the world above? For the second summary: 1.

What has the scientist invented? 2.

What does he find when he travels to year AD 802,701? 3.

What is the world thirty million years into the future like? For the third summary: 1.

What has happened to the three young people? 2.

How do they come back to the earth?

Step 3 Group Work(finish project) 1.

Planning In the groups of four, choose a topic for their group’s science fiction story.(eg. Future education) 2.

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

3.

Producing Make it in turns to write the story. Each group member should write one paragraph.( if time doesn’t permits, Ss may write just outlines.) 4.

Presenting Put their story up on the display wall of their classroom for everyone to see and let the class vote for their favourite.

Step 4 Homework 1.

Finish the WB exercises(B1, B2, D1, D2) 2.

Revise some language points of this period. 3.

Finish the Group’s work----- writing a science fiction story.