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Unit 18 Inventions
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Task1 Brain storm
How to divide 13 oranges between 9 children fairly?
Make orange juice
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What can you imagine when seeing this round?
round
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How do you connect all the dots with only four straight lines?
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Task2 Prediction
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Task3 Skimming
Read the text to find out the main idea.
The text describes the thinking strategies that creative thinkers use and explains how these strategies work.
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Task4 Scanning
Think outside the box
Take another look at it
Make connections Keep tryingStrategies
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Bionics( 仿生学 ) is a science based on biological behavior that can be applied to machine designs and human development.
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+video phone
++pump
fire engine
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Making connection is to combine new thoughts and ideas with what we already know.
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How do you make connections?
Think of new applications and solutions
Try to connect new and old ideas in as many different ways as possible;Compare and connect ideas and objects
in new ways;
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Read paragraph 5 and then discuss with your partner. How do you understand “Good ideas are no accident”? Give some examples.
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ExamplesMozart wrote more than 600 pieces of
music.Thomas Edison made a rule saying that he
had to make an invention every ten days.Although disabled, Stephen Hawing had
always been kept doing his scientific research.
Yuan Longping has been keeping improving rice to contribute to agriculture.
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NewNew
What the author wants to emphasize is that_________.
Creativity has much to do with new ideas.
ideas/thought
ways/solutions
intentionspossibilities
applications
Task5
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How do you really understand the title?
If we want to be creative, we should follow these rules---think outside the box, take another look at it, make connections and keep trying. These rules also work when we solve a problem.
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Would you give another title for the text?
CreativityGreat thinkersHow to solve problemsConnections
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Task6
Problem solving-- Drop an egg from
a height of 15 meters, not to
break it.
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Creativity is the place where no one else has ever been.
You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, taking risks and by keeping on trying.
What you will discover will be wonderful---
yourself.
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Read the second paragraph to fill in the chart.
What
Why
How
It is to try new ways to solve a problem.
What we know and what we have learnt may limit our thinking.
Break away from old thought patters and explore new possibilities
Rephrase a problem to allow for creative solutions;Try “impossible” or “crazy” solutions;
Failure also helps move towards solutions;
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What does “box” refer to?A. impossible or crazyB. a complete answerC. the old thought patternsD. partial solutions and
failures
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Get out of your box!
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1.Who never goes to see a doctor, even when he is ill ?
A blind man.2. Why can a frog jump higher than a tree?
A tree can’t jump.3. It is leaking( 漏水 ) everywhere in the office on a rainy day, why nobody has got wet?
Nobody is in.4. Mike’s father is a policeman. Why did
Mike recognize him among his workmates
though they were all in uniform?
The workmates are policewomen.
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Read the 3rd paragraph and find out an expression mentioned in this paragraph that can take the place of this subtitle.
How do you take another look at it?
A change in perception
Try different attempts even false startsto understanding.
Looking in as many ways as possible;
From invisible to visible;
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A romantic story from the rubbish
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Are the eyes of the
same height?
Yes!
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