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Using Language
Write a sci-fi short story
Book7 Unit 1 SCIENCE FICTION
Teaching objectives
By the end of this period, you will be able to:
1. Know the story of The Time Machine written by H.G. Wells;
2. Analyze the structure and rhetorical devices 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.
01
Lead-in
1. Do you know anything about Isaac Asimov and his famous Three Laws of Robotics?
2
Have you ever seen any films about time travelling?
Back to the future
《回到未来》
Terminator
《终结者》
2
Have you ever seen any films about time travelling?
Hi , Mom
《你好,李焕英》
The time machine
《时间机器》
Free talk
In groups, discuss what you would do if you could time travel?
If I could time travel, I would like to:
see my old actual self.
see my beloved ones who have passed away.
experience my childhood life again.
be able to predict the future or decide my future.
see what life/ the world/earth will be like in millions of years to come.
see the wonders of the world in the near or distant future.
The film The Time Travel was adapted from H.G. Wells’ novel written in 1895. The famous science fiction writer H.G. Wells (1866 — 1946) who was referred to as “The Father of Science Fiction”, was an English novelist, teacher, historian and journalist.
02
Reading
Look at the title and picture and guess what the text mainly talk about?
Prediction
A man’s expriences in the Time Machine.
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the starting lever
the leather seat
The main panel
It looks like a chair.
What does the time machine look like?
The Time Traveler's feelings through time travel.
The Time Traveler stopped the machine and went somewhere.
The Time Traveler sat in his laboratory to test out his machine.
The Time Traveler's first experience of travelling through time by his machinThe Time Traveler's feelings through time travel.
The Time Traveler stopped the machine and went somewhere.
The Time Traveler sat in his laboratory to test out his machine.