1. It was Jinyun ______ I was born.2. It was in Jinyun_______ I was born.3. It was Jinyun _________ I visited last year.4. It was in Jinyun ________ there is a beautiful place named Xiandu ________ I was born.5. It was Lihua ________ graduated from Jinyun____ _______told me the story.The Father of Science FictionPRE-READING1.Ask the students to look at the three pictures and guess when these inventions were made. Picture 1: The first electric railway was built by the German Werner von Siemens in 1879.Picture 2: The electric light bulb was invented in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison in the United States.Picture 3: in 1769 James Watt built a steam-powered boat. JULES VERNEBorn in:_________Died in:__________Nationality:_________Interested in:__________________Remembered as:_________________Famous novel:___________________ _________________________ 18281905Frenchbotany and applied sciencethe father of science fiction20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Journey to the Center of the EarthJules VerneFast reading Read the passage fast and then try to summarize the main idea of each partPart 1(para 1):Part 2(paras2-5):Part 3(para 6):General information about Jules VerneInformation about his famous novel---20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.Information about another novel---Journey to the centre of the Earth.Careful reading1.To make a living, what did Jules Verne have to do?2.How did he write his books?3.How did Verne lay the foundation of modern science fiction?Part 1: Paragraph 11.To make a living, what did Jules Verne have to do?To make a living, Jules Verne had to write and sell stories.2.How did he write his books?He spent many hours in Paris libraries studying botany, applied science and many other subjects. He used the latest ideas and...
