You won’t feel unfamiliar with the following characters. Can you tell where they come from and what these films share in common?

终结者

骇客帝国 异形

a literary genre in which scientific development is predicted, often based on present-day results

Fiction: type of literature describing imaginary events and people

Novel: book-long story in prose about either imaginary or historical characters

Pre-reading

• Have you ever read any science fiction stories?

• Can you name some famous science fiction writers?

Jules Verne H G Wells Zheng Wenguang

Jules Verne

Who is the father of science fiction?

Jules Verne

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Famous novels:

1828 1905

French

theatre

20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, the Children of Captain Grant, the Mysterious Island, 80 Days around the World .

botany, applied science

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

Is science fiction only imaginary stories? What effects do you think it has on the scientific development?

What does the inside of the earth look like?

The earth on which we live is a big ball of very hot rock, which consists of three parts: the earth’s crust, the earth’s mantle and the earth’s core.

The temperature inside is very high. It’s hot inside but cold outside. It has a shell just like an egg. There are some cracks in the shell of the earth in some places.

Hot water shoots into the air through those cracks and steam comes up from pools of hot water.

Journey to the Center Of the Earth

Jules Verne

First reading:

What do the two men do in the adventure of going to the centre of the earth?

Pick out the main words in the description of the story.

Journey to the Center of the Earth

During the journey, they see a big underground ocean, a beautiful forest, ancient animals that have already disappeared in the world above.

What do they see during their journey?

A volcano in southern Italy brings

them back to the Earth’s surface.

How do they come back to the world above?

The Time Machine1.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?

1. What has the scientist invented ?

He has invented a machine that can take him into the future.

2.What does he find when he travels

to year AD 802,701? He finds two kinds of creatures---the Eloi and the Morlocks.

The Eloi are gentle and lazy people who are served by the Morlocks.

The Morlocks are a group of people who work very hard and come out in the evening to eat the Eloi.

3.What is the world thirty million

years into the future like?

The sun no longer shines in that

world, so it is cold and scary.

Flying to Centaurus

1.What has happened to the three young people?

They are trapped in a lost spaceship which is traveling towards the planet Centaurus, at a speed of 40,000 kilometres per second.

2.How do they come back to the Earth?

They teach themselves astrophysics and after this, with the help of force from a black hole they are able to guide the lost spaceship safely back to the Earth.

Let’s write our own science

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DiscussionStep 1

1.Have you read any of the stories mentioned in the reading?

2.Which story sounds the most/least interesting to you? Why?

3.What do you imagine the future will be like?

4.What do you think would make an interesting science fiction story?

1.base. vt. base …on/upon: 建立于……之上，以……为根你把希望建立在他的承诺上真是太愚蠢了。 You’re foolish enough to base your hopes upon his promise. 税收一般取决于收入。 Direct tax is usually based on income.

2.base vt. 把基地设在 ; 以…为基地The computer company based its ten branches in ten different countries.这个电脑公司在 10 个不同的国家设立了分部 .Can you tell me where the company is based?你能告诉我这个公司总部在哪儿吗 ?3. base n. 基础 , 根基 ; 基地 , 基地 , 总部 ;After we had reached to the top of the mountain, we returned to our base camp.到达山顶之后 , 我们便返回基地 .Karl Marx made London a base for his revolutionary work.马克思将伦敦变成革命根据地 . a military/naval/cruise missile base 军事基地 / 海军基地 / 巡航导弹基地

come across meet by chance 偶遇 The man I came across on board the plane te

n years ago is now my best friend.

What are the meanings of “come phrases” in the following sentences?1.When your friends come over for tea, you should greet them at the door.2.The song comes down to us from the 10th century.3.The meaning of his speech doesn’t come out well.4.I came out first in the examination.

phrases of COME: come about 发生，出现 come at 扑向 come down 下跌 / 落 / 降传下来 come in/ into 进来 come into (sight/being/existence/use/notice/effect) come on 来临 / 快点 ( 表激励 )/ 得了 ( 表厌烦 ) come out ( 书被 ) 出版， ( 消息 , 秘密被 ) 传出 come along 一道来，赶快 come to 达到 (an end/an agreement/a stop/a conclusion), 苏醒，合计，总共是 come over 走过来 come up 走近 , 被提出 ( 讨论 ), 长出 come up with 某人提出… , 想出 come across 偶然碰到 come back 回想起 come from 来自，源自

1) How did it come _______ that you both got lost? I thought you had a map. 2) It suddenly came ______ to me where I had seen the boy before. 3) Come ________ now, or else we shall be late. 4) He came ________ me like a tiger. 5) The price of petrol has come _______ since the beginning of this year. 6) The word came _______ use many years ago. 7) When the examination result came ______, he had already got a job. 8)The bill came _______over a thousand dollars. 9) He came up to me and told me that the issue security came_____ at the meeting just now. 10)The truth has come out that her new book will come______ soon.

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Scared and cold, the Time Traveller starts back towards the present. 又惊又冷，时光旅游者踏上了回到现在的旅程。 scared, cold 是形容词作伴随状语。形容词和形容词短语都可作伴随状语，表示主语实施谓语动作时伴随的状态。

• 一位妇女躺在床上，没有睡着，静听着那急急的风声。

• One woman was lying in bed, awake, listening to the rushing winds.

• 他们强行冲进叔父的卧室，发现那个男人躺在地板上，已经死了。

• They broke into the uncle's bedroom and found the man lying on the floor, dead.

After this,with the help of force from a black hole,they are able to… force n. 力 , 力量 , 自然力 ; 武力 , 暴力 ; 军队1.The three kids took the money from the old man by force. 三小子武力抢走了老人的钱2.The force of the explosion broke all the windows in the building. 爆炸力震碎了窗玻 .3.land and sea forces 陆军和海军force vt. 强行 , 强迫 ; 勉强 , 强作 .4.She won’t do it unless you force her to(do it).5.They forced their way into the house(got in by force).强行闯入6.We had to force our way through the crowd. 强行通过7.Though the little girl was in great pain,yet she forced a smile and spoke to us. 强作欢笑