Unit 1 Science Fiction Period 7 Using language Writing 教学设计-2025-2026学年高中英语人教版选择性必修第四册

Teaching and Learning Design Book4 Unit1 Science Fiction 教学设计 Period 7 Teaching and learning contents: Using Language—Writing Comprehensive teaching and learning objectives: By the end of this period, the students will have been able to: 1) Discuss what you would do if you could time travel; 2) Practice writing a sci-fi short story; 3) Evaluate each other’s writing. Teaching and learning important points: 1) Practising writing a sci-fi short story; 2) Evaluating each other’s writing. Teaching and learning difficult points: 1) Practising writing a sci-fi short story; 2) Evaluating each other’s writing. Teaching and learning procedure: Step 1 Revision and Leading in Activity 1 Revision and Leading in 1. Review the main content of the text and language items learned in the previous period. 2. Introduce the learning objectives of the period. Step 2 Discussion and sharing Activity 2 Discussion and sharing 1. Work in groups. Discuss what might happen next in the story. Use the following questions to help you and make brief notes. 1) What date do you think it is when the Time Traveller finally stops? 2) What do you think is different about that time from the time he left? 3) Who or what do you think the Time Traveller will meet? 4) What adventures do you think he will have in the future? 5) Do you think he will ever return to his own time? 2. Read the sample for inspiration and then share your idea or story. A sample: The Time Traveller stops in the year 802701. The whole earth looks like a garden with beautiful, happy people called Eloi who play all the time, but this hides a horrible truth; there is a whole world of people called Morlocks who live underground in a dark, mechanised society who use the Eloi as a source of food. The Time Traveller meets an Eloi woman and falls in love with her. The Time Traveller and the Eloi woman are attacked by Morlocks. He is able to escape, but he loses contact with the woman and perhaps she is killed. The Morlocks then steal the Time Machine and use it as bait to capture and kill the Time Traveller. However, once he is in the Time Machine, he pulls the lever and begins to travel in time again and is able to make his escape. He travels 30 million years into the future to see the sun cool and the earth turn into a lifeless planet. He then travels back to the time from where he started out, only to find that three hours have passed. Step 3 Writing guidance Activity 3 Writing guidance 1. Present the writing requirements: write your own story about a time machine you will invent, and your journey through time. 2. Use the story of The Time Machine and the guide below to help you. 1) Think about what your machine will look like. Is it a vehicle or a machine? 2) How does your time machine work? What do you have to do to make it work? 3) What period in time do you want to travel to? Think about interesting things and people you would like to see there. 4) Imagine what it might feel like to travel through time. Think of words to describe this and make your story as vivid as possible. 5) Include rhetorical devices in your story, like metaphors, similes, overstatements, etc. 3. Talk about the organization of a sci-fi short story and attention. Organization: Beginning → Developing → Climax → Ending Matters needing attention: 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。此类写作需要大胆发挥想象力，但应以现实为依据，以科学为依托，想象要合情合理，而不是胡思乱想一通。 4. Read the sample writings for inspiration and reference. Sample writing: I thought this summer vacation at Aunt Jenny’s would go as boring as watching paint dry. Hers was an old house, built before time began, it seemed. One hundred years ago it was often filled with people coming to stay for the summer ― it was such a large, grand house that there would be thirty or forty guests at a time, and the host barely knew who some of them were. Then there was the host himself― my great grandfather. He was widely thought of as the smartest, funniest man of his age, and people would come from all over the world to see him. But that was all in the past. Now the only person who lived here was Aunt Jenny, who lived in one small part of the house and kept the rest closed up. Then I caught the sun shining in my eyes from a tall mirror in the hallway. “How pretty! It must be a hundred years old. If only I could go back and see my great grandfather!” I said, cleaning the dirt off the mirror with my hand. Suddenly, the shiny mirror became a sea of clouds and I felt myself being pulled inside it. The world began to spin, and I felt confused. Then, just like that, everything stopped. I looked around, and there I was with the mirror and in the same hall, but things were different. The family photos on the wall were now replaced by paintings of people I did not recognise. The furniture all looked new but old-fashioned at the same time. “I must be one hundred years into the past!” I thought to myself. Then a woman wearing old- fashioned clothing came down the hall. Drawing near, she frowned and said, “Oh, that won’t do! The party starts in twenty minutes and you are still in casual clothes! What? You didn’t bring anything? I’ve got a lovely dress you can borrow. I think it will just fit.” She led me away to her room and helped me get dressed like I was an old friend, and then together we went down to the parlour, which was filled with people dressed in fine clothes gathering around my great grandfather, listening to every word he said. I spent the summer there, pretending to be a distant cousin from the city who was there on holiday. No one seemed to mind or care, as my great grandfather was quite wealthy and always had lots of guests. I tried to spend as much time as possible with my great grandfather and his friends, and it was the most wonderful time of my life. Then when the end of summer drew near, I went back to the mirror and rubbed it with my hand again. I found myself back in the same hall, but in modern time, not a minute had passed. Then I realised that I still had a full summer ahead at boring Aunt Jenny’s. “Now what am I going to do?” I asked myself. Step 4 Writing practice Activity 4 Writing practice Practice writing the first draft in class, using the above information. Step 5 Writing evaluation Activity 5 Writing evaluation 1. Exchange drafts with a partner and revise each other’s draft. 2. Choose a few (2-3) students to read their writing to the class or present their writing and give feedback. Step 6 Summary and evaluation Activity 6 Summary Summarize the main contents of this period briefly by emphasizing how to write a sci-fi story. Activity 7 Self-evaluation Guide the students to reflect on their learning of this period by considering the following aspects. 1. How is your writing performance? (Good/Fairly good/Moderate/Just so so/Poor) 2. How is your writing evaluation? (Good/Fairly good/Moderate/Just so so/Poor) 3. What will you do to improve your writing after class? Homework: 1. Revise the writing. 2. Complete the vocabulary and grammar exercises in Assessing Your Progress. 3. Complete some more exercises in the reference book. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $