1、 Unit 18 What will you think of next?What will you think of next?Thomas Edison invented the electric bulb Newtonthe theory of gravityJames WattsteamerThese great thinkers have used their creativity and imagination to change the world.1.Are these people born creative?2.Do you have to be very intellig
2、ent to be an inventor?DiscussionDo you have to be very intelligent to be an inventor?Fast-ReadingRead the first paragraph and the subtitles fast and then try to find out the answers to these questions1 Are these people born creative?How can we 1 Are these people born creative?How can we become more
3、creative?become more creative?2 Do you have to be very intelligent to be an 2 Do you have to be very intelligent to be an inventor?inventor?No,we can become more creative by thinking about the way we think and practicing good thinking strategies.No.Because only some of the thinkers did well in schoo
4、l.And creativity is not about getting high scores,having a high IQ or being smart.4 thinking strategiesThink outside the box 框外思维框外思维Make connections 联想联想Keep trying 不断实验不断实验Take another look at it 换个角度看问题换个角度看问题3.Careful ReadingRead the passage more carefully and answer the following questions.1.Wh
5、at does think outside the box mean?2.Why do we need to take another look at it?What does the word it refer to?3.Why is it necessary for creative thinkers to combine new and old ideas in as many different ways as possible?4.How do you understand good ideas are no accident?1.A plane crashed.Why nobody
6、 in the plane was injured?All the people in the plane died.2.Why can a frog jump higher than a tree?A tree cant jump.Paragraph 2Paragraph 2To try new ways to solve a problem.What is“to think outside the box”?Try to answer this questions by thinking outside the box3 Why do we need to take another loo
7、k at it?What does the word it refer to?By looking at a problem in as many ways as possible,creative thinkers can find solutions that would otherwise remain invisible.Whats more,each new way of looking at a situation improves our understanding and makes it easier to discover new possibilities.It refe
8、rs to the problem.Paragraph 3 Forget about the numbersLets draw!Examples of taking another look at it4 Why is it necessary for creative thinkers to combine new and old ideas in as many different ways as possible?If we connect new ideas to only one area of our previous knowledge,it is easy to limit t
9、he possibilities of a new idea.By comparing and connecting ideas and objects in new ways,creative thinkers are able to think of new applications and solutions.Paragraph 4We have successfully made many inventions,We have successfully made many inventions,using connection.Here are some examples:using
10、connection.Here are some examples:+storage battery electrical machinery(电机电机)electrically operated bike video phoneWill these inventions be possible?Will these inventions be possible?+Plike whcow1.How do you understand Good ideas are no accident?Paragraph5-6Paragraph5-6Good ideas are the result of a
11、 long process of trial and error.Madame CurieMadame Curie worked worked hard all her life to hard all her life to discover discover PoloniumPolonium and and RadiumRadium.It took It took EdisonEdison 15 15 years to invent years to invent light bulblight bulb.Can you place the mixed examples in the ri
12、ght paragraph?1.According to Leonardo da Vinci,problems which has 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.3.Einstein,who changed the world of physics forever with his Theory of
13、 Relativity,preferred images to numbers4.Samuel Morse,the man who invented the telegraph,got his idea by watching a rider exchange a tired horse for a new one.(para 2-think outside the box)(para 5-keep trying)(para 3-take another look at it)(para 4-make connections)1.1.Read the passage Read the pass
14、age again and find out again and find out some sentences and some sentences and phrases you dont phrases you dont understand.understand.2.Retell the text with 2.Retell the text with about 120 words.about 120 words.Lets think!Lets think!Lets create!Lets create!Lets invent!Lets invent!Let our nation be stronger!Let our nation be stronger!Thank you for your attention!
