湖南省茶陵县高中英语Unit3Tomorrow’sWorldProject教案牛津译林版.docx

Unit 3 Tomorrows worldProjectWriting a science fiction storyTeaching Aims:To learn what a science fiction story is like and how to write a science fiction story.Teaching Important and Difficult Points:How to make students understand the science stories better.How to write a science fiction story.Teaching Approaches:Asking-and-answering activity.Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class. Teaching Aids:Multimedia and a blackboard Teaching Procedures:Step 1 Lead-inl Have you ever read any science fiction stories? Do you like them?l Do you know about some science fiction writers? Who are they?l Have you ever heard of Jules Verne or H. G. Wells?Show them the pictures of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, tell them about these two persons briefly.Step 2 Readingl Journey to the Centre of the EarthRead the first story written by Jules Verne. Then answer the following questions.1. With whom did Professor Lindenbrock make the journey?2. What was the destination of the journey?3. How did they go there?4. What did they see during their journey?5. Which do you think was the most thrilling experience during their journey, why？l Time machine1. Lead to the second science fiction story. Have you ever read about or seen a film about a time machine? What do you think a time machine can be used to do? Many people are interested in such a machine. Can you think of the reason(s)?2. Show them a video about time machine.3. Ask them to read the story and think about the following questions.l What did the writer decide to see using the time machine the writer had made?l Which year did the writer go to? What did the writer find there?l The writer described a picture about the future. What is his idea about the future of the world? What is your opinion about the future?4. Ask them to discuss. If you had a time machine, what would you like to see, the future or the past? Why? What would you expect to see there?Step 3 Writing a science fiction story (Group Work)Ask them to discuss the questions on page 59.l What interesting science fiction stories have you read?l Which one do you like best? Why?l What would be a good setting for a story?l Who will be your main characters?l What do the main characters do?l How many paragraphs will your story have?l Who will write each paragraph?l Who will read