Unit 1 Science Fiction Reading and Thinking 课件 -2021-2022学年高中英语人教版选择性必修第四册

UNIT 1 SCIENCE FICTION Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact. ---Isaac Asimov 1. Look at the title of the unit and tell: what is science fiction? Science fiction, SF or sci-fi for short, is a form of fiction that deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals. （科学幻想，科幻） It is also a type of book, film/movie, etc. that is based on imagined scientific discoveries of the future, and often deals with space travel and life on other planets （科幻小说或影片等） Open page Nineteen Eighty-four (《1984》) George Orwell Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (《仿生人会梦见电子羊吗》) Philip K. Dick Foundation (《基地》) Isaac Asimov The Time Machine (《时间机器》) H. G. Wells 《三体》 (The Three-Body Problem) 刘慈欣 《流浪地球》 (The Wandering Earth) 刘慈欣 2. How do you understand this quote? The quote can be paraphrased to mean what we read about in science fiction sotries today will become reality in the future. 3. What do you know about Issac Asimov? Isaac A