Project(1): Writing a science fiction story课堂实录【3】

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project Teaching design

Teaching aims Improve the students’ writing skills Help the students learn about the science fiction stories Improve the students’ reading skills Teaching students’ writing skills step 1

lead in

Have you read some science fiction stories? Please match the items. •

The War of the Worlds

时间机器

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The Time Machine

地下城

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The Underground City

世界战争

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Journey to the Centre of the Earth

海底两万里

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Around the World in Eighty Days

环游世界八十天

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20000 Leagues Under the Sea

地心历险记

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Avatar

月光宝盒

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Harry Potter

流浪地球

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Just Another Pandora’s Box

哈利波特

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The Wandering Earth

阿凡达

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What is science fiction ?

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Science fiction is a type of writing based on fantasy.

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Science fiction writers often write about what will happen in ‘tomorrow’s world’.

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Step 2 Please enjoy the video

about Harry Potter?

Can you use some words to describe this short video? Step 3 skipping and fast reading

Please skip the passage and find out the whole structure. A

P1

P2

P3

P4

P5

P6

B

P1

P2P3 P4 P5

P6

Listen to the passage and answer following questions:

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

A. To Iceland

B. To Italy

C. To the Centre of the Earth

D. To Ireland

2. What do they see during their journey ?

A. They see a big underground valley, a beautiful forest and some ancient creatures.

B. They see a big underground ocean, a beautiful park and some ancient creatures.

C. They see a big underground ocean, a beautiful forest and some ancient creatures.

D. They see a big underground valley, a beautiful park and some ancient creatures.

3. How do they come back to the world surface ?

A. A volcano in southern Italy brings them back to the surface.

B. It is the strange animals that drive them up to the surface.

C. They come back to the surface, crossing the exit of the cave by themselves.

D. They come back with some Itlians helping them.

Step 4 Careful reading: Fill in the blanks.

Journey to the

Center of the Earth was written __1___ Jules Verne.

Place 1

Where

What hA vast room with large There wocean

and hug(mushroPlace 2

On a boat __4__ (make) Two dinby themselves

rose an(fight) Place 3 In the forest They sastrange__6__aman___against Place 4 At the exit They m_7___ btheir bo(wild). forward

Place 5 From __9_ bottom of world The wathe hole to the outside ____10

Step 5 exercises Exercise1 T or F

1

Professor Otto Linderbrock found a secret message in a new book.

2

Axel was willing to go for the trip with his uncle.

3

The professor hired Hans to go for the trip with them.

4

A small boat was made by themselves. 5

They noticed a man who was 3 metres tall. 6

The exit was blocked by rocks.

Exercise2

Please use the following

phrases

to retell

the story. speak of

come to

be filled with

give off

all of a sudden

too…. to

in terror

hold on to

come across

Possible version :

This passage speaks

of a trip to the centre of the earth. At the

beginning ,the three men came to the volcano in Iceland. Many days

later, they were wandering around the ocean where the sky was filled

with gas that gave off light like the sun. They continued to set sail. All of a sudden, they saw two dinosaurs fought each other. Then they

explored the forest, in which they came across huge insects and many

strange creatures. When they arrived at the exit,

the boat floated

down with the water. It was too fast for them to escape. They could

only hold on to the boat in terror. Finally, a volcano in southern Italy

brought them back to the surface.

Step 6 writing

Science fiction is a kind of story, so what are the basic elements of stories?

a certain time period

a place

main characters

a plot

a problem to be solved

a surprise ending

step 7 homework

Writing

Write a passage about future transportation, future education ,future farming……

into the