Mr-Imagination

1、Mr. Imagination Outline Brief IntroductionMajor WorksScientific Influence Jules Gabriel Verne(8 February 1828 24 March 1905) A French novelist, poet, and playwright. Best known for his adventure novels and science fiction. Verne is the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, between t

2、he English-language writers Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He is one of the authors sometimes called The Father of Science Fiction”.Major works20,000 Leagues Under the SeaJourney to the Center of the EarthFive Weeks in a BalloonThe Children of Captain GrantThe Mysterious IslandAround the W

3、orld in Eighty DaysMichel StrogoffFrom the Earth to the Moon Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon Activity Read the brief introduction of one of these works and tell the story to the whole class after the video related with it has been shown. Match the following trailers of five different films whi

4、ch are adapted from Jules Vernes works with their correct titles. Scientific influenceThe pioneering submarine designer Simon Lake credited his inspiration to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and his autobiography begins Jules Verne was in a sense the director-general of my life.“The aviation

5、pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont named Verne as his favorite author and the inspiration for his own elaborate flying machines. Igor Sikorsky often quoted Verne and cited his Robur the Conqueror as the inspiration for his invention of the first successful helicopter. The rocketry innovators Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard, and Hermann Oberth are all known to have taken their inspiration from Vernes From the Earth to the Moon. Polar explorer Richard E. Byrd, after a flight to the South Pole, paid tribute to Vernes polar novels The Adventures of Captain Hatteras and An Anta