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Unit 1 Science Fiction
Using Language (Reading for Writing)
Write a sci-fi short story
Learning objectives
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
read a text about time travel;
grasp the main idea of this text and its language features;
continue to write the story with the help of some questions;
write a sci-fi short story about time travel.
Lead-in
Have you ever seen these films What do they have in common
Time travelling
What would you do if you could time travel
If I could time travel, I would like to:
experience my happy childhood again;
see my beloved ones who have passed away.
see what life / the world / earth will be like in the faraway future.
H.G. Wells (1866-1946) is — along with Jules Verne — most often credited with being the inventor of the science fiction genre. He was born in Kent, England. When he was eight years old, his leg was broken in an accident, and this forced him to stay in bed for a long period of time. This was when he fell in love with books and decided to become a writer. His family suffered great financial troubles when he was young, and as a result he was not able to attend school but was forced to work. Despite this, he studied on his own and
in the end won a scholarship which allowed him to go to college. Eventually,
he received a degree in zoology from the University of London. Wells had trouble finding and keeping work until the early 1890s, when he found great success writing articles for magazines.
This led to him writing his first novel, The Time Machine, in 1895. He went on to write many
Reading
Learn the background of the text we will read.
other successful stories and novels, including The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau. There had been many writers before Wells who wrote fantastical stories of scientific advances. Wells’ contribution was the idea that all of the details in the story should be as closely grounded in reality as possible, with the exception of one element which was fantastical. By having everything else grounded in reality, audiences are more willing to accept the fantastical element as true. This philosophy is behind much of science fiction today, whereby everything in a
story must be possible according to the Laws of Physics (compared to science fantasy, where the Laws of Physics usually do not apply). Wells wrote in a number of different genres besides science fiction and was enormously popular and successful.
Look at the title and pictures. Then predict what the text will talk about.
A. The Time Traveller’s feelings through time travel.
B. The Time Traveller stopped the machine and went somewhere.
C. The Time Traveller sat in his laboratory to test out his machine.
D. The Time Traveller’s first experiences and feelings in the Time Machine.
Read the text carefully and figure out the main idea of each paragraph.
THE TIME MACHINE (Adapted)
It was at ten o’clock today that the first of all Time Machines began its career. I gave it a last check, and sat myself in the leather seat. I pushed the starting lever on the main panel forwards an inch then immediately backwards again. Looking around, I saw my laboratory exactly as before. Had anything happened I thought my mind had tricked me. Then I saw the clock. A moment before, it was a minute or so past ten; now it was nearly half past three!
Para. 1: How I got the Time Machine started _______________.
for the first time
n. 皮革；[pl.]皮衣；皮外套
n. 操纵杆；杠杆
n. 控制板；仪表盘；专家咨询组
adv. 向后；倒着；往回
I drew a breath, gripped the lever and pushed it forwards. The laboratory went hazy around me. My niece came in to fetch something, maybe her handkerchief, apparently without seeing me. It probably took her a minute, but to me she moved like a rocket! I pushed the lever further. Night came as if a lamp was being turned out, and in another moment came the day. Tomorrow night came, then skipped to day, again and again, faster and faster still.
Para. 2: _______________ while time travelling.
What happened
vt. & vi. 紧握；抓紧
adj. 模糊的；朦胧的；困惑的
n. 侄女；外甥女
vt. （去）拿来；（去）请来
n. 手帕；纸巾
n. 灯；台灯
关掉；熄灭；在场；使朝外；结果是
It is hard to explain the strange and unpleasant feeling of time travelling. It felt like I was being driven fast on a winding road. As my pace grew faster, the walls of the laboratory fell away, and I was left in the open air. The sun and moon looked as if they were being thrown across the sky, but soon there was division between night and day. Around me I saw trees growing like puffs of smoke; they grew, spread, and died in moments. I saw huge buildings rise up, then disappear like in a dream. The whole surface of the earth was being changed, melting and flowing before my eyes. I calculated that I was being pushed through time at hundreds of years a minute.
Para. 3: _______________ while time travelling.
How I felt
n. 速度；步伐；节奏 vt. & vi. 确定速度；调整节奏
n. 分开；分隔；差异；除（法）
n. （烟、气等的）一缕；少量；喘息
（逐渐）减少；消失
I had a strange urge to look at the random things that were being flashed before my eyes! I had thought about the risk of stopping the Time Machine many times. So long as I travelled at maximum speed, it didn’t matter. But if I stopped and the same space was being occupied by something else, we would be forced together and explode like a bomb! Like an impatient fool, I pulled the lever backwards hard. With a sudden jolt, the Time Machine was flipped on its side, and I was thrown through the air.
Para. 4: ___________________ before I stopped the Time Machine and
___________________ when stopped it.
What I thought
What happened
n. 强烈的欲望；冲动 vt. 催促；力劝；大力推荐
adj. 随机的；不可思议的
adj. 最大极限的 n. 最大量；最大限度
vi. & vt. 爆炸；爆破
n. 震动；摇晃；颠簸 vt. & vi. （使）震动；摇晃
vt. & vi. （使）快速翻转；（用手指）轻抛
I was stunned for a moment, and then heard the sound of thunder. I was sitting in the rain in some mud next to the machine. “A fine welcome,” I said, “for a man who has travelled thousands of years to be here!”
Para. 5: ___________________ somewhere in the future.
How I ended up
vt. 使震惊；使昏迷
n. 泥；泥浆
Find out how many times the Time Traveller started the machine.
I pushed the starting lever on the main panel forwards an inch then immediately backwards again.
the first time
the second time
I drew a breath, gripped the lever and pushed it forwards.
I pushed the lever further.
Like an impatient fool, I pulled the lever back hard.
He saw the clock move forwards.
It felt strange and unpleasant. He uses the simile: “It felt like I was being driven fast on a winding road.”
If he stopped and the same space was being occupied by something else, they would be forced together and explode like a bomb.
In some mud in the rain.
How does the Time Traveller first know he has travelled through time
How does the Time Traveller feel when travelling through time What rhetorical devices does the writer use to describe his feelings
Why is the Time Traveller worried about stopping the machine
Where does the Time Machine arrive when the man finally stops it
Suggested Answers
Read the text again and answer the questions.
Work in groups. Discuss what might happen next in the story. Use the following questions to help you and make brief notes. Then present your story to the class.
What date do you think it is when the Time Traveller finally stops
What do you think is different about that time from the time he left
Who or what do you think the Time Traveller will meet
What adventures do you think he will have in the future
Do you think he will ever return to his own time
The Time Traveller stops in the year 802701. The whole earth looks like a garden with beautiful, happy people called Eloi who play all the time, but this hides a horrible truth; there is a whole world of people called Morlocks who live underground in a dark, mechanised society who use the Eloi as a source of food. The Time Traveller meets an Eloi woman and falls in love with her. The Time Traveller and the Eloi woman are attacked by Morlocks. He is able to escape,
but he loses contact with the woman and perhaps she is killed. The Morlocks then steal the Time Machine and use it as bait to capture and kill the Time Traveller. However, once he is in the Time Machine, he pulls the lever and begins to travel in time again and is able to make his escape. He travels 30 million years into the future to see the sun cool and the earth turn into a lifeless planet. He then travels back to the time from where he started out, only to find that three hours have passed.
Sample Story
Think about what your machine will look like. Is it a vehicle or a machine
How does your time machine work What do you have to do to make it work
What period in time do you want to travel to Think about interesting things and people you would like to see there.
Imagine what it might feel like to travel through time. Think of words to describe this and make your story as vivid as possible.
Include rhetorical devices in your story, like metaphors, similes, overstatements, etc.
Writing
Imagine and write your own story about a time machine you will invent, and your journey through time. Use the story and the guide below to help you.
n. 夸大；夸张
Content Rhetorical device
Beginning
Developing
Climax
Ending
________ (Title)
Write your outline with the help of the following chart.
Exchange your draft with a partner and revise the draft using your partner’s comments. You can use the checklist.
Items Yes/No
Does the author include how the Time Machine works
Does the author include what happens during Time Travelling
Does the author include how the Time Traveller feels
Does the author include verb chains in the story
Does the author include rhetorical devices in the story
Is the story organized in time order
Share the story with the rest of the class.
I thought this summer vacation at Aunt Jenny’s would go as interesting as watching paint dry. Hers was an old house, built before time began, it seemed. One hundred years ago it was often filled with people coming to stay for the summer — it was such large, grand house that there would be thirty or forty guests at a time, and the host barely knew who some of them were. Then there was the host himself — my great grandfather. He was widely thought of as the smartest, funniest man of his age, and people would come from all over the world to see him.
But that was all in the past. Now the only person who lived here was Aunt Jenny, who lived in one small part of the house and kept the rest closed up. Then I caught the sun shining in my eyes from a tall mirror in the hallway.
“How pretty! It must be a hundred years old. If only I could go back and see my great
grandfather!” I said, cleaning the dirt off the mirror with my hand. Suddenly, the shiny mirror became a sea of clouds and I felt myself being pulled inside it. The world began to spin, and I felt confused.
Then, just like that, everything stopped. I looked around, and there I was with the mirror and in the same
hall, but things were different. The family photos on the wall were now replaced by paintings of people I did not
Sample Writing
recognise. The furniture all looked new but old-fashioned at the same time. “I must be one hundred years into the past!” I thought to myself. Then a woman wearing old-fashioned clothing came down the hall. Drawing near, she frowned and said, “Oh, that won’t do! The party starts in twenty minutes and you are still in casual clothes! What You didn’t bring anything I’ve got a lovely dress you can borrow. I think it will just fit.” She led me away to her room and helped me get dressed like I was an old friend, and then together we went down to the parlour, which was filled with people dressed in fine clothes gathering around my great grandfather, listening to every word he said.
I spent the summer there, pretending to be a distant cousin from the city who was there on holiday. No one seemed to mind or care, as my great grandfather was quite wealthy and always had lots of guests. I tried to spend as much time as possible with my great
grandfather and his friends, and it was the most wonderful time of my life.
Then when the end of summer drew near, I went back to the mirror and rubbed it with my hand again. I found myself back in the same hall, but in modern time. Not a minute had passed. Then I realised that I still had a full summer ahead at boring Aunt Jenny’s. “Now what am I going to do ” I asked myself.
Night came as if a lamp was being turned out, and in another moment came the day. (P8)
夜幕降临了，仿佛一盏灯正在熄灭，转眼间，白昼就来临了。
turn out 关掉；熄灭；在场；使朝外；结果是
例句
Please turn out the lights when you leave the room.
你离开房间时，请把灯关掉。
The whole village turned out to welcome the hero.
全村人都出来欢迎这位英雄。
The games my parents taught me when I was a child turned out very useful later in my life.
在我孩提时代，我父母教给我的这些游戏在我日后的生活中证明非常有用。
Language points
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As my pace grew faster, the walls of the laboratory fell away, and I was left in the open air. (P8)
我的速度越来越快，实验室的墙壁随之坍塌，我置身野外。
pace /pe s/ n. 速度；步伐；节奏 vt. & vi. 确定速度；调整节奏
搭配
at a pace of ... / at a(n) ... pace 以……的速度
keep pace with ... 与……步调一致；与……并驾齐驱
例句
It’s predicted that temperatures will keep increasing at a steady pace every year.
据预测，气温将以稳定的速度逐年上升。
You need to pace yourself and decide which tasks are the most important.
你应该调整一下你自己，并确定哪些任务是最重要的。
2
As my pace grew faster, the walls of the laboratory fell away, and I was left in the open air. (P8)
我的速度越来越快，实验室的墙壁随之坍塌，我置身野外。
fall away （逐渐）减少；消失
例句
The sales of cold drinks usually fall away in winter.
冷饮的销售额在冬季通常是要减少的。
拓展
fall back 后退，后撤，撤退，退让 fall behind 落后；拖欠
fall off 数量减少；质量下降 fall down 跌倒；掉下；倒塌；失败
fall out 争吵；解散 fall over 倒下，摔倒
fall ill 生病 fall in love with 爱上，喜爱
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I had a strange urge to look at the random things that were being flashed before my eyes! (P8)
我有一种强烈的欲望，想看看眼前那些随机闪现的东西！
urge / d / n. 强烈的欲望；冲动 vt. 催促；力劝；大力推荐
搭配
have an urge to 有强烈的欲望做某事
urge sb to do/into doing sth 力劝某人做某事
例句
I have a strong urge to travel all over the world.
据预测，气温将以稳定的速度逐年上升。
搭配
urgent adj. 急迫的，紧急的 urgency n. 紧迫；急迫；急事
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Homework
Polish your story with the advice from your classmates and your teacher.

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