1. L o g o Unit 3 Tomorrow ’ s world Project Writing a science fiction story

2. Lead in 1. What do you imagine the future will be like? 2. Have you ever read any science fictions? Which one is your favorite one?

3. Reading skimming Which story sounds the most/least interesting to you? Why?

4. Scanning NovelWriter Year YearPlot Journey to the Center of the Earth The Time Machine Flying to Centaurus Jules Verne 1864 professor/nephew/ take a journey to H G Wells 1895 scientist/invented/ In the future Zheng Wenguang 1978 adventure/spaceship/ planet

5. Reading in detail: 1. Where do the German professor and his nephew travel to? 2. What do they see during their journey? 3. How do they come back to the world above? To the center of the earth. They see a big underground ocean, a beautiful forest, ancient animals that have disappeared in the world. A volcano in southern Italy brings them back to the Earth. For the first summary:

6. 1. What has the scientist invented? 2. What does he find when he travels to year AD 802,701? 3. What is the world thirty million years into the future like? A machine that can take him into the future. Two kinds of creatures-the Eloi and the Morlocks. The sun no longer shines in that world, so it is cold and scary For the second summary:

7. 1.What has happened to the three young people? 2. How do they come back to the earth? They are trapped in a lost spaceship. 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. For the third summary:

8. Consolidation  Get to know these science fiction writers  Get the direct sense to the three novels

9. Jules Verne(1828-1905) As a popular French writer, Jules Verne is regarded as the father of science fiction. His famous science fiction stories are: Journey to the Center of the Earth; Around the World in Eighty Days, Five Weeks in the Balloon, and From the Earth to the Moon.Journey to the Center of the Earth

10. H G Wells(1866-1946) As an English novelist, H G wells is well known for his science fiction stories, among which are The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War in the Air and The war of the Worlds. The Time Machine

11. Zheng Wenguang(1929-2003) He is regarded as the father of Chinese science fiction.