Unit 18 reading What will you think of next?

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What kind of person can be an inventor ? Read Para one What kind of person can be an inventor ? ( ) He / she has a high IQ . ( ) He / she is creative & imaginable . ( ) He / she must be a top student at school . ( ) He / she is smart . How do they come up with ideas for new inventions ?

Scanning Find out what the following ways mean. Think outside the box Make connections Try new ways to solve a problem. Try to combine new and old ideas in as many different ways as possible. Take another look at it Keep trying Have a long process of trial and error. Look at a problem in as many ways as possible.

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For some questions, if we think out of the usual way, we can get the answers easily. A plane crashed. Why nobody in the plane was injured? All the people in the plane died. When we cut a corner from a square-shaped desk with four corners, how many corners are left? Three/ four/ five Why can a frog jump higher than a tree? A tree can’t jump.

Can you only see a pot? Pay attention to the dark! Are the eyes of the same height? Two faces!

Is there only a yellow triangle? Pay attention to the blue? Of course we can see an old man. Look more carefully! What else can you see?

+ + + We have successfully made many inventions, using connection. Here are some examples: + + electrical machinery (电机） electrically operated bike storage battery + video phone

+ + pump fire engine + heating wire electric blanket

Will these inventions be possible? + Plike whcow

Madame Curie worked hard all her life to discover Polonium and Radium. It took Edison 15 years to invent light bulb.

Yuan Longping has been keeping improving rice to contribute to agriculture. Although disabled, Stephen Hawing has always kept doing his scientific research.

Think outside the box Keep trying The following examples have been fixed up. Can you place them in the right titles of the passage? 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. Think outside the box Keep trying

Keep trying Take another look at it Make connections 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 of 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

True or False F T F F F T T 1 Most inventors have high IQs. The things we know can sometimes make it more difficult for us to understand. F 3 It’s impossible to learn how to be creative. F The best way to find a good solution is to look for one good answer. F 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. T T 7 Most good ideas are the result of a long process of trial and error.

Language points: 1） be born+ adj./n. He was born blind. She was born a singer. 2） come up with Can scientists come up with ways of predicting tsunami（海啸）？

3） allow for 考虑到; 顾及 It will take you half an hour to get to the station, allowing for traffic delays. allow of 容许，允许 The situation allow of no delay. 情况不允许我们耽误。

The car got stuck in the mud. 4 ） get/be stuck The car got stuck in the mud. 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 Taiwan is part of China. It can’t break away from China.

7） be aware of / that-clause Are you aware of your mistake? She became aware that something was burning.

8）otherwise ①连词 否则，要不然(or else= if not) You should go now, otherwise you’ll miss the bus. ②副词 在其他方面，除此之外 He is noisy, but otherwise a nice boy. ③形容词 另外的，别样的 Some are wise, some are otherwise.

9) once 句中是连词 “一……就” Once I make up my mind, no one can persuade me. 一旦我下定决心，没有人能说服我。

If we want to be creative, we should follow these rules--- 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

Homework Write a passage to tell what rules you should have if you want to be creative, which one is the most important and explain the reasons.