Unit4 A Glimpse of the Future Developing ideas Writing 课件-2023-2024学年高二英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第三册

Read the story and answer the questions. What happened to the prison and what was the cause? What kind of job do you think Carolyn has? Are there any sentences that might foreshadow what will happen next? Underline them. There was a prison breakout,caused by faulty robotics. She might be a prison governor. And in a maximum-security prison like yours,one small error could cause a lot of problems. It was not until an hour later that he noticed that Carolyn had left her emergency call device on the breakfast table. What does a sci-fi story usually include? sci-fi story Characters Setting Plot Ending time place weather background ... humans robots UFOs aliens ... beginning development climax conflict ... common ending miserable ending win-win ending mysterious ending ... 3 Think about what will happen next, based on the examples of foreshadowing you have underlined. Complete the notes to plan the rest of the story. Setting Time:_ Place:_ Characters _ Plot _ Ending _ Carolyn had a long commute to the prison, even by aircar. When she arrived, everything seemed normal, except for a robot lying at the front gate, motionless. It’s an old model, she thought. They broke down now and again. She passed through the gate, noting that everything else was apparently in order. But just as she closed her office door behind her, a loud alarm sounded. Carolyn’s blood froze. She had only ever heard that sound during drills. It can’t be! She thought. A general systems failure! She looked out of the reinforced glass of her office window into the prison below. Sure enough, the robots were out of control. Most had stopped moving at all. Some spun aimlessly around and around. 5 But others were randomly operating things, including the cell gates, and she could see prisoners rushing out to freedom. “Grab the robots’ weapons and run!” shouted the prisoners. Carolyn opened her bag and reached for her emergency call device. Her heart sank as she realised she had left it at home. I need to call in the police, she thought. But how? Without the device, she couldn’t communicate. Nothing in the prison would work properly now. There was a voice behind her. “Looking for one of these?” Carolyn gasped. “Julius!” There was her second-in-command, holding an emergency caller in his hand. “What are you doing in my office?” “It should be my office!” snarled Julius. “I’ve worked here for forty years ... and the City Commissioners gave you the job as prison governor! But now you’ll pay. You’ll all pay! I can make every robot in every prison in the city go crazy. The prisoners will escape, and the city will burn!” Then the door burst open, and the room was suddenly flooded with riot police. And there was ... Todd! “I took the aircar over here to bring you this,” he said quietly, winking as he pushed the emergency call device secretly into her hands. “I could see there was trouble, so I activated it to call in the police.” “It was Julius,” said Carolyn, watching the police bundle Julius out of the door. “He’s gone mad.” “Sure,” said Todd. “But now we know how easy it is to cause a mass robot breakdown. You’ll have to write a report. Make some recommendations to upgrade the robots.” “I know.” Carolyn slid from Todd’s hug and walked towards the door. She could see the police rounding up the prisoners. “But right now, I’ve got a prison to run.