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UNIT 1
SCIENCE FICTION
Using Language:
Write a sci-fi short story
What can you see in the picture?
Can you guess what are they doing?
warming-up
Time machine and time traveling
夏洛特烦恼 Goodbye Mr. Loser
3
If you could take a time travel, which time would you like to go? Who would you like to meet? What would you like to do?
The film Goodbye Mr. Loser is about a man who went back to the his senior years and started his new life in a totally different way .
1. Look at the portrait, do you know who he is ?
He is H.G.Wells, a famous science fiction writer who wrote The Time Machine. Sometimes referred to as “The Father of Science Fiction”, Herbert George Wells (1866 — 1946) was an English novelist, teacher, historian and journalist.
Before reading
2. Look at the pictures on pages 8 and 9. What does the time machine look like? How is it different from what you expected?
the starting lever
the leather seat
The main panel
It looks like a chair.
3.According to the title, can you predict what the story will talk about?
The text mainly talks about ____________________ ____________________
in the Time Machine.
the Time Traveler's experiences and feelings
Activity 1
1. Scan the story, find out how many times the Time Travelers started the machine.
2. read the story again and answer the four questions in Activity 3 on Page 9
1. Scan the story, find out how many times the Time Traveller started the machine.
I pushed the
starting lever on
the main panel forwards an inch then immediately
backwards again.
l drew a breath, gripped the lever and pushed it forwards.
I pushed the lever further.
Like an impatient tool, I pulled the lever
backwards hard.
The Time Traveller started the machine twice.
Para 1
Para 2
Para 2
Para 4
1. check answers to the tasks in self-learning
2. present orally
(1) How does the Time Traveller first know he has travelled through time?
He saw the clock move forwards.
Activity 2 Listen and read the story carefully and answer the questi