Unit 18 Speaking

Creative and Creative and imaginativeimaginative

Unit 18 reading & language points

InventionsInventions

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What will you think of next?

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Think outside the box

Take another look at it

Make connections

Keep trying

Strategy

Try new ways to solvea problem.

Look at a problem in as many ways as possible.

Try to combine new and old ideas in as many different waysas possible.Have a long processof trial and error.

框外思维

换个角度看问题

联想

长期试验

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Post-reading1 The following examples have been fixed up. Can you place them in the right titles of the passage?

1)According to Leonardo da Vinci, problems which had seemed impossible could be solved if he changed the way he described the problem.

2) Thomas Edison made a rule saying that he had to make an invention every ten days.

Think outside the box

Keep trying

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3) Mozart, who lived in Austria, wrote more than 600 pieces of music.

4) Einstein, who changed the world of physics forever with his Theory of Relativity, preferred images of numbers.

5) Samuel Morse, the man who invented the telegraph, got his idea by watching a rider exchange a tired horse for a new one.

Keep trying

Take another look at it

Make connections

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True or False 1 Most inventors have high IQs.2 The things we know can sometimes make it more difficult for us to understand. 3 It’s impossible to learn how to be creative.4 The best way to find a good solution is to look for one good answer.5 Inventors try to avoid failure.6 The more ways we have of looking at a problem, the more likely it is that we can find a solution.7 Most good ideas are the result of a long process of trial and error.

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Creativity is a matter of _____. In order to be more creative, we should think about how we think and _______ good thinking strategies. To “ think outside the box” is a conscious ______ to break away from old thought ______ in order to _______ new possibilities. A change in ________ ----- to take another look at the problem----may lead to good solutions and new ideas. Great thinkers are ______of “making connections” and try to ______ new and old ideas in as many ______ ways as possible. By _______ and connecting ideas and objects in new ways, creative thinkers are able to think of new _________and solutions. Good ideas are no _______.They are the result of a long _____ of trial and_____. If we want to develop our creativity, we can try using these thinking strategies to find new ways to _____ our life.

habitspracticing

effortpatterns exploreperception

awarecombine different

comparing

applicationsaccident

process error

improve

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If you want to go traveling, what kind of means of transportation will you use?

Wheel-cow

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1. 创造性和想象力

2. 想出 , 提出

3. 有许多相同点

4. 文化和背景

5. 得高分

6. 有高智商

7. 创造性思维

8. 习惯的问题

9. 练习好的思维策略

10.限制思维

11.换种方式表诉问题

12.考虑，顾及

13.遇到困难

14.分离，摆脱

15. 探索新的可能性

16. 观念上的改变

17. 正如…一样

18. 一系列不同的尝试

19. 一些错误的开始

20. 使他们的思想为人所知

21. 联系起来

22. 以前的知识

23. 意识到

24. 新的应用

25. 成功决非偶然

26. 长期实验和犯错误的结果

27. 迫使…做某事

28. 开发创造力

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Let’s think!Let’s create!Let’s invent!Let our nation be stronger!

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Discussion What word is used the most frequently? Why?

Can you find out the phrases with it?

What do you think of “Good ideas are no accident”?

“ NEW”----- new inventions, new ideas, each new

way, new possibilities, a new idea, in new ways, develop new ideas, find new ways, etc.

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Language points:1 be born+ adj./n. He was born blind. She was born a singer.2 come up with Can scientists come up with ways of predicting tsunami （海啸）？3 allow for: include sb or sth in one’s calculation 考虑到‘顾及 It will take you half an hour to get to the station, allowing for traffic delays.

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5 as with: like 正如……一样 As with drawing a picture, you should be patient and careful when you do the job. 6 break away from Taiwan is part of China. It can’t break away from China.7 be aware of/that-clause Are you aware of your mistake? She became aware that something was burning.

4 get/be stuck The car got stuck in the mud.

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Homework Homework Write a passage to tell what rules you should have if you want to be creative, which one is the most important and explain the reasons.