Extension

Oral Work

1.Group Discussion

1) How do you understand Verne's statement "What one man can imagine, another man can do" ?

2) Give a brief account of what our life would be like in the 22nd century.

3) Give your comment on H. G. Wells’ statement: "For Man there can be no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest of this little planet, its winds and ways and all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him then the planets about him and at last out across immensity to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deeps of space and all the mysteries of time--still he will be but beginning... "

2. Debating

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

●To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. --- Albert Einstein

●Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. --- Albert Einstein

●Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. ---Oscar Wilde

●The view that life is getting worse is fuelled by concern about contemporary social problems: criminality, drug use, labor dispute, ethnic trouble, rising divorce rate and political terrorism, etc.

●The man who has no imagination has no wings. ---Muhammad Ali

●It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. ---Henry David Thoreau

●You cannot depend on your judgments when your imagination is out of focus. ---Mark Twain

●Imagination rules the world. ---Napoleon Bonaparte

●Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. ---Jules Verne

●We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better. --- J. K. Rowling

●Quiz

1. The sports meet, originally due to be held last Friday, was finally _______ because of the bad weather.

A) set off    B) broken off

C) worn off      D) called off

2. Jane was hit on the head by the robber and was knocked______

　 A) mindless      B) unaware　　

C) brainless　      　D) unconscious

3. The students was just about to _____ the questions, when suddenly he found the answer.

A) arrive at      B) submit to

C) work out      D) give up

4. Being out of work, Jane can no longer _______ friends to dinners and movies as she used to.

A) urge      B) treat

C) appeal      D) compel

5. I don't know whether what she said is true, but I' 11 try to __ it.

　 A) conform      B) confirm

C) confess      D) confine

6. Only a few people have _____ to the full facts of the incident.

A) access      B) resort

C) contact      D) path

7. They were ________admission to the military exhibition because they were foreigners.

A) denied      B) declined

C) deprived      D) rejected

8. He always did well at school _______having to do part-time jobs every now and then.

A) in spite of      B) regardless of

C) on account of      D) in case of

9. The manager urged his staff not to _____ the splendid opportunity.

A) drop      B) miss

C) escape      D) slide

10. The chairman was blamed for letting his secretary ________too much work last week.

A) take to      B) take out

C) take away      D) take on

Fill in the blanks with the proper form of the given words.

1. "Par in parem imperium non habet" is an legal_________ maxim in the world. (dispute)

2. He felt an _________impulse to rush into the room. (resist)

3. His music is a haunting mix of guitar, __________, oriental gongs and bells. (synthesis)

4. It's not an agreement as such, but it will have ________ the same effect as one. (virtue)

5. I had ________ scientists as bearded old men. (vision)

6.They ________ hackers breaking into their information vaults. (vision)

7. A number of institutions ________and respected in earlier times have become Aunt Sally for the present generation. (revere)

8. His plan got a lukewarm ________ from the committee. (receive)

9. In comparison with the disastrous damage made by the earthquake, my personal loss is _________.(neglect)

10. She's always ________ about her mother's health. (fidget)

●Writing

Write a composition on either of the following topics.

●Schools of the 22nd Century

●New Inventions of the Future

●Listening Lab

Impossible Dream

To dream the impossible dream

To fight the _______________

To bear with ___________ sorrow

To run where the brave dare not go

To right the unrightable wrong

To love pure and chaste from ___

To try when your arms are too _____

To reach the __________star

This is my _____, to follow that star

No matter how hopeless, no matter how far

To fight for the right, without question or _____

To be willing to march into Hell, for a heavenly _____

And I know if it'll only be true to this ______ quest

That my heart will lie peaceful and ____when I'm laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this

That one man _______ and covered with scars

Still _____ with his last ounce of courage

To reach the unreachable star