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UNIT 1 SCIENCE FICTION
Period Three Using Language
二、Match each paragraph with its main idea.
Para. 1: a. I was thrown through the air when I stopped the Time Machine.
Para. 2: b. I had a try on the machine.
Para. 3: c. I had a strange and unpleasant feeling of time travelling.
Para. 4: d. I found myself in the rain in some mud.
Para. 5: e. I began the experience of time travel.
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预习检测
一、判断正(T)误(F)。
( ) 1. I pushed the panel forward and the machine began to move.
( ) 2. After the Time Machine moved, time went very fast.
( ) 3. I pushed the lever forwards, and the Time Machine rushed out of the laboratory.
( ) 4. As the speed grew higher, the laboratory walls fell down.
( ) 5. It is dangerous to slow down the Time Machine.
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【答案】1-5 FTFFT
Read the text again and answer the questions.
1. How does the Time Traveller first know he has travelled through time?
2. How does the Time Traveller feel when travelling through time? What rhetorical devices does the writer use to describe his feelings.
He saw the clock indicate a time in the future. (Para. 1, the last two sentences)
It felt strange and unpleasant. The writer uses all kinds of
rhetorical devices, such as simile and overstatement.
3. Why is the Time Traveller worried about stopping the machine?
4. Where does the Time Machine arrive when the man finally stops it?
If he stopped and the same space was being occupied by something else, they would be forced together and explode like a bomb.(Para. 4, Sentence 4)
In the rain in some mud next to the machine. (Para. 5, Sentence 2)
Learning Objectives
At the end of the class, you will be able to:
1. know the story of The Time Machine written by H. G. Wells.
2. analyse the structure of a sci-fi story.
3. share different ideas of what might happen next in the story.
4. write a story about a time machine.
Read the statement of Activity 2 and the title, and answer the questions:
Who wrote The Time Machine ?
A