内容正文:
新人教版(2019)英语选修性必修四教学设计
Unit 1 Science Fiction
Period 5 Using language (Reading for writing)
教材分析:
该部分活动主题是“写一则短篇科幻故事”(Write a sci-fi short story) 。时间旅行是科幻作品中常见的主题,也是人类对自由穿梭于过去、现在和未来,驾驭时空的向往。读写活动要求学生阅读《时间机器》(改编)后,就时间旅行展开想象,假设自己具备制造时间机器或时间旅行的能力,会对世界进行怎样的探索。本活动需要学生在理解、赏析科幻作品的基础上,抓住时间旅行主题,结合科幻小说的特征,写一则短篇科幻故事。整个活动需要学生大胆想象、关注细节描写,是对文学作品赏析、故事续编、思维创新等多方面能力的综合训练。
学习目标与核心素养:
1.To know some famous science fiction writers.
2.To read for the main idea of the passage.
3.To discuss what you would do if you could time travel.
4.To write a sci-fi short story.
重点:
To read for the main idea of the passage and write a sci-fi short story.
难点:
To write a sci-fi short story
教学过程:
Step 1 Lead –in
1.Do you have an urge to time travel or space travel ?
2.Have you read stories or watched films about time travelling? What 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.
(Purpose:to to arouse students’ interest in the class.)
Step 2 Pre-reading
1.look at the picture, who is he ?
He is H.G.Wells, a famous science fiction writer who wrote The Time Machine.
2..Look at the pictures on pages 9, What does the time machine look like? How is it different from what you expected?
It looks like a chair.
(Purpose:to serve as a warn -up for the activities which follow.)
Step 3 While-reading
1.Scan the story, find out how many times the Time Traveller started the machine.
The Time Traveller started the machine twice.
2.Listen and read the text again and answer the questions.
1)How does the Time Traveller first know he has travelled through time?
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 felt strange and unpleasant. He uses the simile:“It felt like I was being driven