Unit 18 Inventions

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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
What Will You Think of Next?
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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
Strategies
Make connections
Keep trying
Take another look at it
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• Bionics(???) 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?

Try to connect new and old ideas in as many
different ways as possible
Compare and connect ideas and objects in new
ways

• Think of new applications and solutions

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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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Examples

• Mozart 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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Task5
ideas/thought
intentions
possibilities
applications
ways/solutions
What the author wants to emphasize is
that_________.
Creativity has much to do with new ideas.
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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?

Creativity Great thinkers How to solve
problems Connections
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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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Thank You !
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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.

Rephrase a problem to allow for creative
solutions
Try impossible or crazy solutions
Failure also helps move towards solutions
Break away from old thought patters and explore
new possibilities
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• What does box refer to?
• A. impossible or crazy
• B. a complete answer
• C. the old thought patterns
• D. 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 cant jump.
3. It is leaking( ?? ) everywhere in the office
on a rainy day, why nobody has got wet?
Nobody is in.
4. Mikes 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
Looking in as many ways as possible
From invisible to visible
Try different attempts even false starts to
understanding.
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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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