The Wright Brothers

Samuel Morse

Thomas Edison

George Eastman

Alexander Graham Bell

Camera

telegraph

plane

telephone

Light bulb

Four Great Inventions of Ancient China

gunpowder printing

compass papermaking

Are you familiar with the inventions above?

maglev train

palmtopVideo recorder

Mp3 player

Mobile phone withDigital camera

Guided Discussion:

How qualified do you have to be as an inventor?Knowledge Hard work

a high IQ

Creativity

Imagination

How important is creativity to an inventor?

More questions:• 1. Are some people born creative?

• 2. Are ideas for new inventions the result of long hours of thinking?

• 3. Can we learn to be more creative?

Scanning What are the ways mentioned in the text to come up with new ideas ?1.Think outside the box 框外思维

2. Take another look at it 换个角度看问题

3.Make connections 联想

4. Keep trying 不断尝试

Put in the missing messages while listening:1. Creativity is a matter of _________.2. To think outside the box is to _____________to

solve a problem.3. By looking at a problem in as ________________

as possible, creative thinkers can find solutions that would otherwise remain invisible.

4. If we connect new information only with what is “logical” or “normal”, we limit our _________.

5. Good ideas are the result of a long process of __________________.

habitstry new ways

many ways

creativity

trial and error

More details----True or False 1 Most inventors have high IQs.2 The things we know can sometimes make it more difficult for us to understand new ideas. 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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F

F

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1. Think outside the box框外思维

the box= normal patterns of thought

Rules and modesty destroy genius and art. 规则与谦逊会

毁掉天才和艺术。 (William

Hazlitt, British essayist)

2.A plane crashed. Why was nobody in the plane injured?

3.Why can a frog jump higher than a tree?

Five.

All the people in the plane died.

1.When we cut a corner from a square-shaped desk with four corners, how many corners are left?

A tree can’t jump.

2. Take another look at it 换个角度看问题Our perception of things can also be

a limiting factor.我们对事物的直觉可能局限我们的思维。

Are the eyes of the same height?

What else can you seebesides the vase?

Yes!

Two faces!

Which appears to be the longer - A or B?

Are the red, green and blue lines on theconcentric circles bent or straight?

Are the gears moving?

Illusion

3. Make connections 联想

Creative thinkers make use of their knowledge as well as their

imagination

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You understand ?

downtown

We have successfully made many inventions, using connections. Examples:

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++

storage battery

electrical machinery( 电机）

electrically operated bike

video phone

+ +pump

fire engine

+heating wire

electric blanket

Will these inventions be possible?

+ Plike

wheelcow

4. Keep trying 不断尝试•Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. “ 天才就是百分之九十九的汗水加上百分之一的灵感 .” （ Thomas Alva Edison ）

•In order to increase your success, double your failure rate. （ Thomas Watson Sr., the founder of IBM ）

Madame Curie worked hard all her life to discover Polonium and Radium.

It took Edison 15 years to invent light bulb. He also made 10,000 attempts to perfect this invention

Although disabled, Stephen Hawing has stopped doing his scientific research.

Yuan Longping has been working hard to improve rice to contribute to agriculture.

Consolidation1 Put the following examples in the right titles

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.

Keep trying

Think outside the boxMake connections

Take another look at it

Think outside the box

Keep trying

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 to numbers.

5) Samuel Moorse, 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

Fill in the blacks according to the text Creativity is a matter of . In order to be more

creative, we should think about how we think and practising good thinking .

Creative thinkers try to _____________their normal ______ of thought. They like to explore ways to look at the problem, which may lead to good solutions and new ideas. Combining and ideas in as many different ways as possible is a possible success to new _______ as well. Good ideas are no . They are the result of a long process of and .

To develop our , we can try using some of the thinking strategies of the great and .

habits

strategies

patterns

break away from

different

new old

inventions accident

trial error

creativity

famous

1. Creativity is not about getting high test scores, having a high IQ or being smart. 创造力并不意味着考试中得高分，有高智商，或聪明。2. By thinking about the way we think and practising good thinking strategies, we can become more creative. 考虑怎样思维和应用好的思维策略，我们就会变得更有创造性。3. If we want to develop our creativity, we can try using some of the thinking strategies of the great and famous. 要发展我们的创造力，我们可尝试伟人 和名人的一些思维策略。

Language points:1 be born+ adj./n. 天生 ..... He was born blind. She was born a singer.2 come up with find or produce an answer, a solution,etc 想到或提出答案、办法 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.

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 摆脱，脱离

Taiwan is part of China. It can’t break away from China.7 be aware of/that-clause 意识到、知道、觉察到 Are you aware of your mistake? She became aware that something was burning.

4 get/be stuck 遇到困难、陷进去 The car got stuck in the mud.

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HomeworkHomework

Find out all the Attributive Clauses in the reading.