Lesson 4_Science Fiction

These 5 images below were created by Jean-Cote and other artists between 1899 and 1910. They depict life in the year 2000, as imagined by the artists at the time.  In pairs discuss the questions that follow and note down short answers. 

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What did the images try to predict about the future?

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Do any of the ideas correspond with what life is like now?

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What do these images suggest about how people perceive the future?

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Jules Verne is widely regarded as being one of the pioneers of science fiction.

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What does this description describe:

"There is a powerful agent, obedient, rapid, easy, which conforms to every use and reigns supreme on board my vessel. Everything is done by means of it. It lights, warms it, and is the soul of my mechanical apparatus..."

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What type of sentence is the following:

"Now, look at this clock; it is electrical and goes with a regularity that defies the best of chonometers."

from Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers, 1870 Jules Verne

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What did the images try to predict about the future?

Do any of the ideas correspond with what life is like now?

What do these images suggest about how people perceive the future?

Jules Verne is widely regarded as being one of the pioneers of science fiction.

What does this description describe:"There is a powerful agent, obedient, rapid, easy, which conforms to every use and reigns supreme on board my vessel. Everything is done by means of it. It lights, warms it, and is the soul of my mechanical apparatus..."

What type of sentence is the following:"Now, look at this clock; it is electrical and goes with a regularity that defies the best of chonometers."from Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers, 1870 Jules Verne

What is Utopia and Dystopia?

What does this description describe:

"There is a powerful agent, obedient, rapid, easy, which conforms to every use and reigns supreme on board my vessel. Everything is done by means of it. It lights, warms it, and is the soul of my mechanical apparatus..."

What type of sentence is the following:

"Now, look at this clock; it is electrical and goes with a regularity that defies the best of chonometers."

from Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers, 1870 Jules Verne