Museums :

• Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle (sfhomeworld.org)
  
  

Vocabulary :

• List of fictional robots and androids - 1 Theatre 2 Literature 3 Films 4 Television... (Wikipedia)
  
  

• Home-help robot revealed in Japan (CBBC Newsround)

  

• Life with a robot : WAKAMARU (mhi.co.jp)

   

Cliches :

• The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Cliches
  - A list of clichés and clichéd themes in plot, setting, characterization, and story events.
  (enphilistor.users4.50megs.com)

INTERACTIVE exercises:

• Sci-Fi Theme Music Quiz (scifiquiz.freeuk.com)
  
  
  
  
• Science fiction (British Council)
  "At the top are nine words related to science fiction.
  Below is part of Planet Zoog, a science fiction story, with gaps in it.
  Can you put the words in the right spaces?"
  
  

• Chat to a female English-speaking robot!
  "You can talk to her about any subject you want and she will respond in both text and speech." (pospieszna.com)

  

• TEACHER the robot - LIEN MODIFIE le 30/01/2008
  "has been learning to answer questions like (Steve Mound) :
  Why is.....
  What is the / a
  What is the point....
  What is the difference......
  Who/Why am I learning to reply politely to insults, personal questions
  you can tell it to "Show me a picture of..." queen, blair, bush
  think of a colour, number religion......
  ask it why the chicken crossed the road what it wants for xmas, birthday........
  It refers to me as it's "master" if you want to ask it about me......."
  
  
  

Lesson plans :

• Robots - a lesson plan (British Council)
  Theme: Domestic robots
  Lexical area: Household chores
  Cross curricular links: Science

• Wakamaru At Your Service - a lesson plan (english-4u.com) SITE PAYANT
  Level: 1
  Language function: expressing ability
  Topic: technology, gadgets, robots
  Grammar focus: modal verb 'CAN'
  - with Teacher's Notes
  
  

• Home robots on sale in Japan (Breaking News English)
  - a lesson plan with "a news article, listening (MP3 file), communication activities, pair work,
  discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises."

Webquests :

• SCIENCE FICTION PROJECT :
  TASKS 1-3 * SCIENCE FI GLOSSARY * TRANSLATE * DICTIONARY * SYNONYMS
  (Valérie Gély - Ac. Paris)
  
  
  

Cartoons :

• Let's allow a bit more time for the stuffing (off the mark)
  
  

Videos :

• Sci-Fi season on Film 4 advert - "There's a little bit of Sci-Fi in all of us."
  (YouTube)

  

Cinema :

• Darth Vader, This Is Your Life... (howstuffworks.com)
  "Who is Darth Vader really?"
  
  
  

• The Sith Explained (howstuffworks.com)

Television :

• see "HEROES"

• The Lost Room
  - "a science fiction television miniseries that aired on the Sci Fi Channel in the United States.
  The series revolves around the titular room and roughly one hundred everyday items from that room that possess unusual powers. The show's protagonist, Joe Miller, is searching for these Objects to rescue his daughter, Anna, who has disappeared inside the Room. Once a typical room at a 1960s motel along Route 66, the Lost Room now exists outside of normal time and space..."
  * 1 Characters * 2 The Room * 3 The Event
  * 4 The Objects * 5 The Cabals * 6 Episodes
  * 7 DVD Release * 8 International broadcasters
  * 9 References * 10 External links
  (Wikipedia)

  

Stories :

• "The Fun They Had" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. (1951)
  (Wikipedia)
  Read it. (users.aber.ac.uk)