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Unit 5 What an adventure
Developing and Presenting
ideas
by Ada
Developing ideas
Read the short introduction to Jules Verne and answer the questions.
1 Who was Jules Verne?
2 What was Jules Verne famous for?
3 How did people call him?
4 What was special about Jules Verne?
儒勒·凡尔纳
He was a French writer.
He was famous for his adventure stories.
He was called the “Father of Science Fiction”.
He described in his stories technology and inventions years before they became realities.
Developing ideas
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French writer best known for his adventure stories. Often called the “Father of Science Fiction”, Verne described in his stories technology and inventions years before they became realities. Verne’s most famous books are Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
“科幻小说之父”
《地心之旅》
《海底两万里》
《八十天环游世界》
TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES
UNDER THE SEA
Developing ideas
Read the passage and underline the key sentences of each paragraph.
Find out what the author intends to tell us.
Para 1:Words are not enough to relate such wonders!
Para 2:The light, which lit the soil thirty feet below the surface of the ocean...
The author intends to tell us the amazing scenery under the sea.
Developing ideas
In 1866, a terrible sea creature is seen by several ships. Biologist Professor Pierre Aronnax and his servant, Conseil, join a ship to find and kill the creature. After a long journey into the Pacific Ocean, the creature is finally seen. While attacking from the ship, Aronnax and Conseil, along with the whale hunter Ned Land, fall into the sea, and discover that the “creature” is actually a submarine. They are captured and taken inside the submarine, where they meet the man in charge, Captain Nemo. Ahead of its time, the submarine is also a secret from the rest of the world. In order to keep this secret, Captain Nemo tells his three newest passengers that they are not permitted to leav