蒙大综合英语课件Unit13-1-warm-up

1、Part OneWarm-upENTERContentsWarm-upFabulous World of Jules Verne Do you know?Enjoy a video clip胡志先制作Watch the video Fabulous World of Jules VerneToday, Verne is widely regarded as a prophetic writer who imagined many modern technologies decades before their times. Can you tell what modern Inventions

2、 Jules Verne foresaw?I. Fabulous World of Jules VerneTo be continued on the next page.Electric Submarines To be continued on the next page.InTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Vernes Captain Nemo travels the worlds oceans in a giant electric submarine.Aside from its organ, formal dining room, an

3、d other luxuries, theNautilusisnt all that different from some modern subs, such as the circa-1964, three-passenger Alvin(pictured), which is powered by lead-acid batteries. LikeAlvin,theNautiluswas fully powered by electricity, which at that time had a kind of magical aura,Suggested AnswersI. Fabul

4、ous World of Jules VerneNewscastsIn an 1889 article, In the Year 2889, Jules Verne described an alternative to newspapers: Instead of being printed, theEarth Chronicleis every morning spoken to subscribers, who, from interesting conversations with reporters, statesmen and scientists, learn the news

5、of the day. To be continued on the next page.I. Fabulous World of Jules VerneSolar SailsIn his 1865 science fiction classic,From the Earth to the Moon,Jules Verne speculated about light-propelled spacecraft. Today, the technology has a name: solar sails. Today, Verne is widely regarded as a propheti

6、c writer who imagined many modern technologies decades before their times.To be continued on the next page.I. Fabulous World of Jules Verne Lunar ModulesInFrom the Earth to the Moon,Verne described projectiles that could be used to carry passengers to the Moon. He imagined a big gun going off, and y

7、ou get enough force to break through gravity.To be continued on the next page.I. Fabulous World of Jules VerneVideoconferencingIn In the Year 2889 Jules Verne describes the phonotelephotea forerunner to todays videoconferencing technologies.The phonotelephote allowed the transmission of images by me

8、ans of sensitive mirrors connected by wires, Verne wrote. To be continued on the next page.I. Fabulous World of Jules VerneTaserInTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,he described a gun that delivers a strong electric jolt, much like aTaserelectronic control device. Of his device, Verne wrote: The

9、balls sent by this gun are not ordinary balls, but little cases of glass. These glass cases are covered with a case of steel, and weighted with a pellet of lead; they are real Leyden bottles18th-century devices used to store static electricityinto which the electricity is forced to a very high tensi

10、on. With the slightest shock they are discharged, and the animal, however strong it may be, falls dead.To be continued on the next page.I. Fabulous World of Jules VerneSplashdown SpaceshipInFrom the Earth to the Moon,Verne imagined a spacecraft landing in the ocean and floatingjust like this Mercury

11、 capsule.I. Fabulous World of Jules VerneThe end of Fabulous World of Jules VerneII. Do You Know Jules VerneTo be continued on the next page.When and where was Jules Verne born? Jules Verne was born on the 8th of February, 1828 in le Feydeau, in the city of Nantes, France. His full name was Jules Ga

12、briel Verne, and he was the first of five children born from the marriage between his father, Pierre Verne, a Parisian lawyer, who came from a lineage of jurists of the city of Provence and his mother, Sophie Allotte de la Fue, of Breton and Scottish origin. Which countries did Jules Verne travel to

13、? In 1859, he made a trip to England and Scotland. In 1861, Jules Verne went to Scandinavia, specifically to Norway and Denmark. In 1867, Jules Verne embarked on the Great Eastern for a journey to the United States. His impressions are given in the novel A floating city. In 1872, he visited London a

14、nd Woolwich. Between 1871 and 1873 he went to Jersey, Guernsey, and Sark (invited by Hetzel). In 1876, he made a trip to the coastal England. In 1878, Verne made a large trip on his yacht. He visited Lisbon, Tanger, Gibraltar and Algiers. To be continued on the next page.II. Do You Know Jules VerneI

15、n 1879, he sailed to England and Scotland. In 1880, he went to Ireland, Scotland and Norway. In 1881, he made a trip to the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark, on board of the Saint-Michel III. Paul Verne wrote about this trip in the short story From Rotterdam to Copenhagen. In 1884, Verne cruised the Mediterranean with his Saint-Michel III, visiting Algeria, Malta, Italy and other countries. In 1887, Jules Verne made a tour through Belgium and the Netherlands, where he read his