1. Unit 18
reading
What will you think of next?

2. inventors
e-dictionary
radar

3. 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 ?

4. 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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6. maglev train
palmtop

7. 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.

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

9. 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?

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

11. + +
pump
fire engine +
heating wire
electric blanket

12. Will these inventions be possible?+
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13. Madame Curie worked
hard all her life to
discover Polonium and
Radium.
It took Edison 15
years to invent
light bulb.

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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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.

18. 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）？

19. 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。

20. 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.

21. 6） break away from
Taiwan is part of China. It can’t break away from China.

22. 7） be aware of / that-clause
Are you aware of your mistake?
She became aware that something was
burning.

23. 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.

24. 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。

25. 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

26. 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.