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课件网) 新人教选择性必修 Book 4 Using Language II P8-9 Unit 1 Science Fiction Learning Objectives In this class, you will make a discussion about traveling through time; read the text, get the key information and answer some questions; study the organisation and language features; write an ending of the story on the Time Travel. What is the machine in the picture It's a Time Machine. Discussion How would people feel when they travel through time What would you do if you could time travel I would like to see what kind of research is going on in the future. Are there lots of many new diseases that are causing loads of problems 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 He had thought about the risk of stopping the Time Machine. 3. Why is the Time Traveler worried about stopping the machine I had thought about the risk of stopping the Time Machine many times. … But if I stopped and the same space was being occupied by something else, we would be forced together and explode like a bomb! vt.&vi.爆炸 He was in the rain in some mud next to the machine. 4. Where does the Time Machine arrive when the man finally stops it I was sitting in the rain in some mud next to the machine. n.泥 The first attempt in a _____ When the Time Machine speeded up When the Time Machine ran even faster Time Machine The lab looked like before but about _____ hours had passed. The lab went _____ and I was invisible to my _____. five and a half haze adj.模糊的;困惑的 niece n.侄女;外甥女 The walls of the lab _____ and I was left in _____, with things around me changing fast. fell away the open air 逐渐减少;消失 The Time Machine came to a stop Remarks on my time travel It was a _____ to stop the Time Machine. Eventually, it was _____ on its side. risk flipped The traveler has traveled _____ years into the future. vt.&vi.使快速翻转 thousands of How to write a good sci-fi short story Brainstorm What will your time machine look like magic school bus racing car door / portal / phone box glass elevator with ... ...
