Project(2): Writing a science fiction story教学设计第一课时

Imagination can lead us beyond the grasp and vision of the past. 想象力能带领我们超越以往范围的把握和视野。

M4U3 Project

Writing a science fiction story The Time Machine Teaching goals: By the end of the class, students can: 1.Get the main information of this passage. 2.Create a short science fiction story with imagination. 3.Learn how to cooperate with others. 4.Develop the ability of further thinking. Teaching Key Point & Difficult Point: Help Ss create a short science fiction story with imagination and develop the ability of imagination & further thinking.

Teaching methods:

Task-based Method; Communicative Method; Cooperation and group work.

Teaching steps: Step 1 Lead in T: Last night I dreamed that I had a time machine and it took me to the year AD 1 million. I saw many robots working hard on the Mars, and suddenly a strange beast shouted at me and made me join the robots. Then I worked till this morning, I was really tired. Luckily this is just a dream! Then if the time machine took you to the far future, what life would be

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Imagination can lead us beyond the grasp and vision of the past. 想象力能带领我们超越以往范围的把握和视野。

like? Can you imagine? Step 2 Reading 1.

In what order is this passage written? 2.

Look through the passage and finish the mind map below.

3.Read the key paragraphs 3&4 and answer these questions quickly: 1)What did they look like? 2)Where did they live? 3)What did they do? 4)Had the Eloi forced the Morlocks to do all of the work? 5)What’s the truth?

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Imagination can lead us beyond the grasp and vision of the past. 想象力能带领我们超越以往范围的把握和视野。

Step 3 Game: Story Solitaire

The whole story has to be coherent and logical. Beginning: The time machine took me to the year AD 10,000, ...

Step 4 Group work Work in groups to write your own science fiction story, and each group member must write at least 1 sentence. Organize your story from the following aspects: time, place, characters and what happened. Step 5 Further thinking If in our real life there is a time machine for people to travel into the future or the past, do you think it's good? Why or why not? Step 6 Summary T leads Ss to know the significance of imagination. Step 7 Homework 1) Draw a mind map about this passage in your own way; 2) Try to make your science fiction stories better.

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