高中英语 Unit3《Tomorrow’s World》reading课件3 牛津译林版必修4.pptVIP

* Project Writing a science fiction story I .Brainstorming Have you seen this film? Can you tell me something about these films? Are they science fiction films? Why? Have you ever read the science fiction? Let’s read summaries of three famous science fiction. Do you know what is science fiction? What do science fiction writers often write about? ---It is a type of writing based on fantasy imagination ---What will happen in ‘Tomorrow’s World’. More questions: Reading 1. Read the three summaries quickly and answer the questions: Which one do you like best? What are they mainly about? Who wrote these science fiction? Do you know something about them? 2.Reading in detail: The first summary: Where do the German professor and his nephew travel to? To the center of the earth. They see a big underground ocean, a beautiful forest, ancient animals that have disappeared in the world. What do they see during their journey? The second summary: What has the scientist invented? A machine that can take him into the future. Two kinds of creatures-the Eloi and the Morlocks. What does he find when he travels to year AD 802,701? The third summary: What has happened to the three young people? They are trapped in a lost spaceship. How do they come back to the earth? They teach themselves astrophysics and with the help of force from a black whole, they are able to guide the lost spaceship safely back to the Earth. Jules Verne (February 8, 1828—March 24, 1905) was a French author and a pioneer of the science fiction genre. Verne was noted for writing about space, air, and underwater travel long before they were possible. 3. Introduction to the writers Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. Zheng Wenguang (1929-2003) Beginning to write science fiction stories in the 1950s, he is regarded as the father of Chinese science fiction. 1. ______