Unit 1 Science Fiction Using Language (II) 课件 2023-2024学年高二英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第四册

Unit 1 Period 4 Using Language ( ) Write a sci-fi short story 1.通过阅读,掌握语篇在修辞和语言上的特点,能学会用修辞加强细节描写和语言感染力; 2.能够结合科幻小说的特征,写一则短篇科幻故事。 学习目标 新 课 导 入 Time Machine 课 堂 学 习 Pre-reading Discuss what you would do if you could time travel. If I could time travel, I could see the results of my actions or other people’s actions, and if the results were bad, I could travel back to the present time, too, and then take another course of action that had a better outcome. But I must learn not to depend on time travel and “cheat” every time when I failed or met something bad. I will choose the most important moment to return and not to change others fates without consideration. Skimming 2 The Time Machine was written in 1895 by famous science fiction writer H.G. Wells. Read an extract from this story, and find out how many times the Time Traveller started the machine. P1 I pushed the starting lever on the main panel forwards an inch then immediately backwards again. P2 I drew a breath, gripped the lever and pushed it forwards. P2 I pushed the lever further. P2 Like an impatient fool, I pulled the lever back hard. The Time Traveller started the machine twice. Scanning 3 Read the text again and answer the questions. 1 How does the Time Traveller first know he has travelled through time? “Then I saw the clock. A moment before, it was a minute or so past ten; now it was nearly half past three!” He saw the clock move forwards. 2 How does the Time Traveller feel when travelling through time? What rhetorical devices does the writer use to describe his feelings? “It is hard to explain the strange and unpleasant feeling of time traveling.” “It felt like I was being driven fast on a winding road. …” “I calculated that I was being pushed through time at hundreds of years a minute.” Similes, overstatements n.夸张 3 Why is the Time Traveller worried about stopping the machine? “I had thought about the risk of stopping the Time Machine many times. … But if I stopped and the same space was being occupi