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Unit 4 Creativity

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Teaching objectives In this unit you will -know what creativity is and how to develop creativity -read a passage about the approaches schools and parents adopt to encourage creativity -read two passages about what prevent children from being creative -develop reading skills like identifying pronouns, text expansion by means of illustration -enlarge your vocabulary

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Warm-up activities 1. Task 1: Defining creativity 2. Task 2 Creative drawings on page 132and signature Shygirl wants to write a letter to her friend and she wants a creative signature. Please design one for her.

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Task 3 Optical illusion and imagination Looking inside: Looking forward Looking flat Looking from the upper side:

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In-class Reading Pre-reading Did your parents involve you in family decisions? If yes, what kinds of decisions are they? Thoughts or ideas?

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Discourse level text structure Thesis statement( para1): What is creativity (para. 2-5) How to encourage creativity (6-10) The present problem (para. 6). What can schools do (para. 7) What can parents do (para. 8-10)

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Mini-skills development---identify pronouns It is a strategy that more and more companies are employing and one that experts around the country say we ought to be following .

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Sentence level 1. The feeling is that (l 13) 2. It is up to sb. to do (l 42). 3. There are things that (l 47)

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Word study Approach (line 16.line 32) 1. We approached the birds quietly and watched them. 2. His word is approaching perfection. 3. I approached him about filling the managers job. 4. All the approaches to the airport were blocked by the police. 5. I made approaches to her to join the club.

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Be up to 1. Its up to him to decide it. 2. fit for, fit to do She is not up to the job. Do you feel up to going out, or do you still feel sick? 3. ( do sth. secret or bad. I see what you are up to.

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sacrifice Fall a sacrifice to Make sacrifices for Offer a sacrifice At the sacrifice of She sacrificed her life to save her child. I wont sacrifice my health in pursuit of wealth. Sacrifice ones career for the family.

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Nature By nature : Cats are by nature very clean. In nature: His problem was personal in nature.

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Useful expressions 1. An essential step towards 2. Develop the thoughts into workable ideas 3. There is no risk in doing 4. Cross conventional boundaries 5. Break patterns 6. Make order out of confusion

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Post-reading discussion Is creativity a skill or a personal quality? Justify your answers.

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Assignment Read after-class reading passages and try to answer the following questions. 1. What different reactions do Americans and Chinese have for the key-slot anecdote? What adult-children relationship is reflected in it? 2. What do Americans value in kids growth process? 3. What are the two approaches to education? Explain them in your own words.

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Key to vocabulary exercises 1,confused, confusion 2. intelligence, intelligent, 3 humorous, humor, 4, strategy, strategic, 5, motivated, motivation. 6,combination, combined, 7, creation, creative, 8, pursuit, pursuing, 9, multiplication, multiply 10, employ, employment,

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2: Perfected, Approaching Value Functions Approach Perfect Honor Function Honor value

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3) Dismiss Consequently Promoting Applies Vital Scorned Conventional Original

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Consciously Innovative Unconsciously Determines Imagination Aware Control Created Extension Technique Vulnerable Unfolding Joyful Gain Apply At the behest of At ones behest Have/exercise dominion over

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Further development What do they stand for? 1. Letter of the alphabet 2. Wonders of the ancient world 3. Arabian nights 4. Signs of the zodiac 5. Cards in the deck with the jokers 6. Planets in the solar system 7. Piano keys 8. Hours in a day 9. Players on a football team 10. Days in February in a leap year

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letter to Shirley Shirley is a quiet girl but her roommates are active in the dormitory bull sessions before sleep . She is very tired of this. Now write a letter in the name of Shygirl to provide a creative solution to her. Dont forget your creative signature.

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Continue the story-(story-making) One day there were three people. Their names were Manners, Trouble, and Shut up. .

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Solution One day they were playing hide and seek. Manners got a tummy ache so he went to the toilet. Trouble was hiding. Shut up was finding Trouble when he met a police man. The policeman: what is your name? Shut up: shut up! The policeman: Are you looking for trouble? Shut up: Yes! The policeman: Where are your manners? Shut up: In the toilet.

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Cloze 1. Mean 2. Include 3. Break 4. Invent 5. Strike 6. Limited 7. Able 8. Not 9. Average 10. Reason 11. that 12. Examining 13. Another 14. Play 15. Regard 16. Sound 17. Because 18. Disapproved 19. Satisfaction 20. but

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On education 1. What are the two approaches to teaching mimetic approach transformative approach 2. Which should be emphasized, knowledge or creativity? facts and skills, favor .over, go out of date, update,

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Translation 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.