1. Objectives for today: Complete activities on the sheet in order to: Understand an information text about speculative fiction. Be able to state: 1) What speculative fiction is. 2) What you like about it. 3) What makes it so popular. Be able to list some examples of speculative fiction.

2. Speculative fiction. A fantastic genre!

3. What is it? Speculative → Speculate → to think or ask ‘what if?’ Speculative fiction is the name given to games, stories, movies or other forms of entertainment that change the rules of reality. Speculative fiction is the most popular type of fiction. Works of speculative fiction usually begin with the question: What if?

4. For example: What if humans colonised different planets and were attacked by a bunch of religiously fanatical aliens?

5. For example: What if kids went to a school where they were educated about potions, spells and the history of the world of magic?

6. For example: What if we could create life from different parts of dead bodies?

7. For example: What if mutant spiders became conscious and tried to destroy all humans?