(共21张PPT)
Unit 5
Science fiction
Using Language (2)
Teaching Objectives
By the end of the period, students will be able to:
1. know the story of The Time Machine written by H. G. Wells.
2. analyse the structure and rhetorical devices of a sci-fi story.
3. share different ideas of what might happen next in the story.
4. write a story about a time machine.
Teaching Procedures
1. Lead in
2. While-reading
3. Writing
4. Summary
5. Homework
a leather seat
a starting lever
the main panel
Lead in
Lead in
What can we do about time machine
We can travel through time with it.
If time travel is possible, which time do you want to go to Why
I want to go to the future to see what will happen to me.
Can you try to leave yourself a message then What message do you want to want to tell yourself
I want to leave myself a message to make my life easier than it is supposed to be.
Watch the video and answer the questions.
1 How does the Time Traveller first know he has travelled through time
He saw the clock move forwards.
2 How does the Time Traveller feel when travelling through time
What rhetorical devices does the writer use to describe his feelings
It felt strange and unpleant.
He uses the simile: “ It felt like I was being driven fast on a winding road.”
While-reading
Read the text and answer the questions.
3 Why is the Time Traveller worried about stopping the machine
If he stopped and the same space was being occupied by something else, we would be forced together and explode like a bomb!
4 Where does the Time Machine arrive when the man finally stops it
In some mud in the rain.
While-reading
While-reading
1. Read the story of The Time Machine written by H.G.Wells and answer the following questions.
(1) What did the time machine look like
How did the Time Traveller operate the machine (P1)
There was a lever on the main panel. There was also a seat.
appearance + operation
While-reading
1. Read the story of The Time Machine written by H.G.Wells and answer the following questions.
(2) What happened when the Time Traveller first pushed it forwards (P1)
experience
While-reading
1. Read the story of The Time Machine written by H.G.Wells and answer the following questions.
(3) What happened when the Time Traveller pushed it forwards the second time (P2)
experience
While-reading
1. Read the story of The Time Machine written by H.G.Wells and answer the following questions.
(4) What did it feel like during time travelling (P3)
feeling
While-reading
1. Read the story of The Time Machine written by H.G.Wells and answer the following questions.
(5) What happened when the Time Traveller pushed it backwards？（P4）
feeling
According to the questions above, can you summarise how to write a story of a time machine
While-reading
appearance
operation
experience
feeling
2 Read and identify the language features
Identify the rhetorical devices to write a story of a time machine.
While-reading
1. Simile 明喻
He drove as if possessed by the evil. 他着魔似的驾车狂奔。
2. Metaphor 隐喻/暗喻
He has a heart of stone. 他铁石心肠。
3. Personification 拟人
Failure is the mother of success. 失败是成功之母。
4. Overstatement 夸张
The old man lived a year in a minute. 老人度日如年。
5. Pun 双关
I'm only friends with 25 letters of the alphabet. I don't know Y.
我只认识25个字母，不知为什么。
2 Read and identify the language features
Identify the rhetorical devices to write a story of a time machine.
1. What's the meaning of “she moved like a rocket”
It is an expression of overstatement, which means she moves very fast.
2. Can you find out other similar expressions in Para.3
It felt like I was being driven fast on a winding road.
The sun and moon looked as if they were being thrown across the sky.
I saw huge buildings rise up, then disappear like in a dream.
While-reading
Writing
Writing
Para.1
Here is my machine _________________________________________________.
Para.2
When I get to the right time in the right place, I ______________________________.
Para.3
It feels as if _________________________________________________.
Writing
Here is my time machine which looks like a drone.With all the shining lights indicating the time I will travel into, my machine can do an awesome job to get me to any place at any time. For me, I want to go back to tell me then that I want to choose more wisely in college, so that I can do better now.
When I get to the right time in the right place, I am so obsessed with all the surroundings I was familiar.My teachers, my family and my friends are just like before, which brings me a sense of warmth. Surely I want to stay here forever, enjoying all the vigorous and energetic life as before.
It feels as if I never left. I fit quickly into the life here like a fish never rid itself from water. All of this is too real for me; however, I am also aware of my purpose here, which is to find me then and leave me a message to help me choose a better major in college. After I do that, I have to go back to the future.
Summary
Let's revise what we have learnt today:
1. The 4 aspects to write a story of a time machine.
2. Some useful rhetorical devices:
(1) Simile
(2) Metaphor
(3) Overstatement
3. Stimulate our imagination by writing our own sci-fi.
Homework
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Write a story of a time machine
THANK YOU
