Project:Science Fiction StoriesBrainstormingBrainstorming Have you ever read any science fictions? What are they? ReadingReading SkimmingSkimming Which story sounds the most interesting to you? ScanningScanning Fill in the form Novel Writer Year PlotJourney to the Center of the Earth The Time Machine Flying to Centaurus Jules Verne1864professor/nephew/take a journey toH G Wells1895 scientist/invented/In the futureZheng Wenguang1978adventure/spaceship/planet Listening and Reading in Listening and Reading in detail:detail:For the first summary: Where do the German professor and his nephew travel to? What do they see during their journey? How do they come back to the world above? To the center of the earth.They see a big underground ocean, a beautiful forest, ancientAnimals that have disappeared in the world. A volcano in southern Italy brings them back to the Earth. For the second For the second summary:summary: What has the scientist invented? What does he find when he travels to year AD 802,701? What is the world thirty million years into the future like? A machine that can take him into the future.Two kinds of creatures-the Eloi and the Morlocks.The sun no longer shines in that world, so it is cold and scaryFor the third summary:For the third summary: What has happened to the three young people? How do they come back to the earth? They are trapped in a lost spaceship.They teach themselves astrophysics and with the helpof force from a black whole, they are able to guide thelost spaceship safely back to the Earth.Jules Verne(1828-1905) As a popular French writer, Jules Verne is regarded as the father of science fiction. His famous science fiction stories are: Journey to the Center of the Earth; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, Five Weeks in the Balloon, and From the Earth to the Moon. H G Wells(1866-1946) As an English novelist, H G wells is well known for his science fiction stories, among which are The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War in the Air and The war of the Worlds. Zheng WenguangZheng Wenguang(1929-(1929-2003)2003) He is regarded as the father of Chinese science fiction. Let’s write yourown science fictionStep 1 Divide the whole class into groups, each group choose a topic for your group’s science fiction story. (e g:Future school; Future city; Future factories; Future libraries; Future life; Future transportation; Future home; Future health and medicine problem; Future environment…)topictimeplace (setting)storylinecharactersStep 2Presenting Ask the students to read out their own stories. They may put their story up on the display wall of the classroom for everyone to see and let the class vote for their favorite. Step 3HomeworkHomework Finish the WB exercises(B1, B2, D1, D2) Finish the Group’s work----- writing a science fiction story.
