Unit3Tomorrow’sworldproject“Writingasciencefictionstory”Teachingobjectives:Sswilllearnwhatasciencefictionstoryislikeandhowtowriteasciencefictionstory.Teachingprocedures:Step1lead-inPresentamovie“X-Files”totellSsthiskindofmovieisbasedonthesciencefictionstory.BrainstormingWhatdoyouimaginethefuturewillbelike?Whatdoyouthinkwouldmakeaninterestingsciencefictionstory?Step2readingSkimmingFillintheformnovelwriteryearplotJourneytotheCenteroftheEarthTheTimeMachineFlyingtoCentaurusMoreinformationaboutthethreewriters:JulesVerne(1828-1905)AsapopularFrenchwriter,JulesVerneisregardedasthefatherofsciencefiction.Hisfamoussciencefictionstoriesare:JourneytotheCenteroftheEarth;TwentyThousandLeaguesUndertheSea,AroundtheWorldinEightyDays,FiveWeeksintheBalloon,andFromtheEarthtotheMoon.HGWells(1866-1946)AsanEnglishnovelist,HGwellsiswellknownforhissciencefictionstories,amongwhichareTheTimeMachine,TheInvisibleMan,TheWarintheAirandThewaroftheWorlds.ZhengWenguang(1929-2003)HeisregardedasthefatherofChinesesciencefiction.Discussion:Haveyoureadanyofthestoriesmentionedinthereading?Whichstorysoundsthemost/leastinterestingtoyou?Why?IIScanningForthefirstsummary:1.WheredotheGermanprofessorandhisnephewtravelto?2.Whatdotheyseeduringtheirjourney?3.Howdotheycomebacktotheworldabove?Forthesecondsummary:1.Whathasthescientistinvented?2.WhatdoeshefindwhenhetravelstoyearAD802,701?3.Whatistheworldthirtymillionyearsintothefuturelike?用心爱心专心116号编辑Forthethirdsummary:1.Whathashappenedtothethreeyoungpeople?2.Howdotheycomebacktotheearth?Step3GroupWork(finishproject)1.PlanningInthegroupsoffour,chooseatopicfortheirgroup’ssciencefictionstory.(eg.Futureeducation)2.PreparingTakenotesofthestory:Timeandplace(setting):eg.In2050,inNo.4MiddleSchoolStoryline:WhatwillhappeninaninterestingEnglishclass?Characters:Englishteacher(orrobot)andstudents3.ProducingMakeitinturnstowritethestory.Eachgroupmembershouldwriteoneparagraph.(iftimedoesn’tpermits,Ssmaywritejustoutlines.)4.PresentingPuttheirstoryuponthedisplaywalloftheirclassroomforeveryonetoseeandlettheclassvotefortheirfavourite.Step4Homework1.FinishtheWBexercises(B1,B2,D1,D2)2.Revisesomelanguagepointsofthisperiod.3.FinishtheGroup’swork-----writingasciencefictionstory.用心爱心专心116号编辑