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课件网) 新人教版选择性必修四Unit 1 UNIT 1 SCIENCE FICTION Write a sci-fi short story To know some famous science fiction writers. To read for the main idea of the passage. To discuss what you would do if you could time travel. To write a sci-fi short story. Do you know the man Liu Cixin He is one of the most famous science-fiction novelists all over the world. His Three Body Problem has become such an international cultural phenomenon that business and government leaders have read the books and drawn lessons from it. Three Body Problem won the Hugo Award, the first for an Asian author Barack Obama: “wildly imaginative, really interesting”. Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, said the book gave him ideas about marketing competition. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, recommends it. The Wandering Earth In the film, based on a short story by Chinese sci-fi writer Liu Cixin, the Earth is in danger of being destroyed by the dying sun. In response, humans around the world work together to build a giant engine system that will push the Earth away from the sun. Instead of abandoning the Earth, this time we’re taking it with us. Watch the video. Look at the pictures, guess what they are. In groups, discuss what you would do if you could time travel. What would you do if you could actually time travel back to 2010 Would you relive your childhood Would you make some investments Or would you spend the whole time worrying about how your unnatural presence in the 2010s could change the history The Time Machine was written in 1895 by famous science fiction writer H.G. Wells. Read an extract from this story and find out how many times the Time Traveler started the machine. 4 times I pushed the starting lever on the main panel forwards an inch then immediately backwards again. I drew a breath, gripped the lever and pushed it forwards. I pushed the lever further. I pulled the lever backwards hard. n.操纵杆 n.仪表盘 n.英寸 adv.向后;往回 vt.&vi.紧握;抓紧 Listen and read the text again and answer the questions. 1. How does the Time Traveler first know he has travelled through time 2. How does the Time Traveler feel when travelling through time What rhetorical devices does the writer use to describe his feelings 3. Why is the Time Traveler worried about stopping the machine 4. Where does the Time Machine arrive when the man finally stops it He found the time was different. 1. How does the Time Traveler first know he has travelled through time Then I saw the clock. A moment before, it was a minute or so past ten; now it was nearly half past three! Similes, overstatements 2. How does the Time Traveler feel when travelling through time What rhetorical devices does the writer use to describe his feelings It is hard to explain the strange and unpleasant feeling of time traveling. It felt like I was being driven fast on a winding road. … I calculated that I was being pushed through time at hundreds of years a minute. n.夸张 H ... ...
