1、Be an inventor!TranslationI was doing my homework at 8 last night.1.昨晚八点我正在做家庭作业。昨晚八点我正在做家庭作业。2.昨晚八点你在做家庭作业吗？昨晚八点你在做家庭作业吗？Were you doing your homework at 8 last night?3.昨晚八点你在做什么呢？昨晚八点你在做什么呢？What were you doing at 8 last night?4.你给我打电话的时候，我正在洗澡。你给我打电话的时候，我正在洗澡。I was taking shower when you called me.
2、2023-5-2Page 4Be an inventor The biggest secret about inventing is that anybody can do it!Perhaps this sounds crazy,but its true.秘密秘密疯狂的疯狂的Maybe you have the wrong idea about inventing,so read on to discover the truth.发现发现2023-5-2Page 5 Wrong idea number 1:An invention has to be something completely
3、 new.Well,inventing means creating something“new”,but the idea could come from something that already exists.完全地完全地存在的存在的2023-5-2Page 6 The Wright brothers,for example,got the idea for buiding a“flying machine”from watching birds.2023-5-2Page 7 Wrong idea number 2:inventors are born,not made.There a
4、re a lot of factors that make innovation possible.因素因素Take Mozart,for example.He was born with a unique talent for musical composition.独特的独特的乐曲乐曲创新、革新创新、革新2023-5-2Page 8 But other factors were also important for his creativity.His father was a music teacher,and Mozart practised for hours every day,f
5、rom the time he was in kindergarten.创造力创造力幼儿园幼儿园2023-5-2Page 9 Thomas Edison said that being an inventor was 99%hard work and 1%inspiration!Very successful creators dont give up when they get something wrong.灵感灵感创作者创作者2023-5-2Page 10 As one inventor said,“A failure is the right answer to the wrong q
6、ueston!”失败失败2023-5-2Page 11 Wrong idea number 3:inventors are always old people.Dont believe that you cant invent something when you are young.Here are two examples of young inventors:Louis Braille went blind when he was a child.2023-5-2Page 12 When he was 15,he invented a system of reading and writ
7、ing for blind people that is still used in most countries today.系统系统2023-5-2Page 13 As a young man,George Nissen was watching trapeze artists in a circus.He watched how they fell into the safety net and then bounced back up again.荡秋千荡秋千演员演员马戏团马戏团反弹反弹This gave him an idea and he invented the trampoline.蹦床蹦床1、secret /sikrt/秘密秘密2、crazy /krez/疯狂的疯狂的3、discover /dskv/发现发现4、exist /gzst/存在的存在的5、factor /fkt/因素因素6、unique /junik/独特的独特的7、creativity /,krietvt/创造力创造力8、inspiration /nspren/灵感灵感9、failure /felj/失败失败10、system /sstm/系统系统
