2. 高二年级 英语 授课者：蒋立耘

3. What will you think of next? ( Reading )

4. 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.

5. Think outside the box Take another look at it Make connections Keep trying Find out what the thinking strategies mean.

6. Think outside the boxThink outside the box. Take another look at itTake another look at it. Make connectionsMake connections. Keep tryingKeep trying. Try new ways to solve a problem. Look at a problem in as many ways as possible. Try to combine new and old ideas in as many different ways as possible. Have a long process of trial and error.

7. True or False on P.60.

8. 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

9. 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

10. 3.To be creative, we must do the following EXCEPT ___. A. combine new and old ideas B. think about how we think and practice good thinking strategies C. avoid different attempts and false starts D. go through many failures C

11. Reading comprehension: 4. Another proper title for the passage is probably ____. A. Creativity B. Great Thinkers C. How to Solve Problems D. Connection A

12. Reading comprehension: 5. We can’t get the conclusion from the last paragraph but one that ______. A. failure is the mother of success B. he who laughs last laughs best C. to be clever can lead to success D. never too old to learn A

13. Test your creative thinking *A plane crashed. Why was nobody in the plane injured? All the people in the plane died. Get out of your box! Think outside the box

14. * 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.

15. * How to divide 13 oranges between 9 children fairly? Make orange juice. Test your creative thinking

16. * Which two English letters are the ones that people like to listen to the most? Test your creative thinking CD

17. * 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.

18. Take another look at it

19. Are the eyes of the same height? Yes! What’s in the picture? A pot & two faces.

20. A romantic story from the rubbish

21. blanket heating wire Make a new connection and introduce it. storage battery electrical machinery

22. + video phone + heating wires electric blanket Make connections

23. + + pump fire engine ladder Make connections

24. + storage battery electrical machinery electrically operated bike + Make connections

25. It took Edison 15 years to invent light bulb.

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

27. Yuan Longping has been keeping improving rice to contribute to agriculture.

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

30. 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.

31. 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.

32. 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. Take another look at it. Make connections.

33. 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.

34. 8.Su Dongpo’s poem : 远看成岭侧成峰, 远近高低各不同. Take another look at it.

35. 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.

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