高二年级 英语

授课者：蒋立耘

What will you think of next?

( Reading )

2.How do people come up with ideas for new inventions? In how many ways?

1. What is creative thinking?

It is one of skills and habits.

Fast Reading:

By practicing good thinking strategies. Four.

Think outside the box

Take another look at it

Make connections

Keep trying

Find out what the thinking strategies mean.

Think outside the box.

Take another look at it.

Make connections.

Keep trying.

Try new ways to solvea problem.

Look at a problem in as many ways as possible.

Try to combine new and old ideas in asmany different waysas possible.

Have a long processof trial and error.

True or False on P.60.

1. What does the underlined part “Think outside the box” refer to?

A. “ impossible” or “ crazy”

B. a complete answer

C. the old thought patterns

D. partial solutions and failures

Reading comprehension:

C

2. If we connect new information only with what’s “logical” or “ normal”, we______.

A. limit our creativity

B. discover new possibilities

C. have good thinking strategies

D. come up with ideas for new invention

Reading comprehension:

A

Reading comprehension:

3.To be creative, we must do the following EXCEPT ___.A. combine new and old ideasB. think about how we think and practice good thinking strategiesC. avoid different attempts and false startsD. go through many failures

C

Reading comprehension:

4. Another proper title for the passage is probably ____.

A. Creativity B. Great ThinkersC. How to Solve ProblemsD. Connection

A

Reading comprehension:

5. We can’t get the conclusion from the last paragraph but one that ______.A. failure is the mother of successB. he who laughs last laughs bestC. to be clever can lead to successD. never too old to learn

A

Test your creative thinking *A plane crashed. Why was nobody in the plane injured?

All the people in the plane died.

Think outside the box

* A cat passed by a mouse without even looking at it. Why?

Blind cat / dead mouse/ electronic mouse.

Test your creative thinking

* It is leaking everywhere in the office on a rainy day, why nobody has got wet?

Nobody is in.

* How to divide 13 oranges between 9

children fairly?

Make orange juice.

Test your creative thinking

* Which two English letters are the ones that people like to listen to the most?

Test your creative thinking

CD

* Why can a frog jump higher than a tree?

A tree can’t jump.

Test your creative thinking

* Who never goes to see a doctor, even when he is ill ?

A blind man.

Take another look at it

Are the eyes of the same height?Yes!

What’s in the picture?A pot & two faces.

A romantic story from the rubbish

blanket

heating wire

Make a new connection and introduce it.

storage battery

electrical machinery

+ video phone

+heating wires electric blanket

Make connections

++pump

fire engine

ladder

Make connections

+

storage battery

electrical machinery

electrically operated bike

+

Make connections

It took Edison 15 years to invent light bulb.

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

Yuan Longping has been keeping improvingrice to contribute to agriculture.

Although disabled, Stephen Hawing has always been kept doing his scientific research.

1 The following examples have been fixed up. Can you place them in the right pagagraph?

1) According to Leonardo da Vinci, problems which had seemed impossible could be solved if he changed the way he described the problem.

Think outside the box.

2) Thomas Edison made a rule saying that he had to make an invention every ten days.

3) Mozart, who lived in Austria, wrote more than 600 pieces of music.

Keep trying.

Keep trying.

4) Einstein, who changed the world of physics forever with his Theory of Relativity, preferred images of numbers.

5) Samuel Moorse, the man who invented the telegraph, got his idea by watching a riderexchange a tired horse for a new one.

Take another look at it.

Make connections.

6.Newton discovered the Theory of Gravity after noticing an apple fall down onto the ground.

7.Deng Xiaoping put forward the idea of “One State, Two systems”

Make connections.

Think outside the box.

8.Su Dongpo’s poem : 远看成岭侧成峰 ,远近高低各不同 .

Take another look at it.

2. How do you understand the title of the passage?

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 .

1. Read the text carefully.2. Finish t6he exercises in the Reference Book.