Unit 4

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Unit 4

• Creativity

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Teaching objectives

• In this unit you will
• -know what creativity is and how to develop
  creativity
• -read a passage about the approaches schools and
  parents adopt to encourage creativity
• -read two passages about what prevent children
  from being creative
• -develop reading skills like identifying
  pronouns, text expansion by means of illustration
• -enlarge your vocabulary

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Warm-up activities

• Task 1
• Defining creativity
• Task 2
• Creative drawings on page 132and signature
• Shygirl wants to write a letter to her friend and
  she wants a creative signature. Please design one
  for her.

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• Task 3
• Optical illusion and imagination
• Looking inside
• Looking forward
• Looking flat
• Looking from the upper side

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In-class Reading

• Pre-reading
• Did your parents involve you in family decisions?
  If yes, what kinds of decisions are they?
• Thoughts or ideas?

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Discourse level text structure

• Thesis statement( para1)
• What is creativity (para. 2-5)
• How to encourage creativity (6-10)
• The present problem (para. 6).
• What can schools do (para. 7)
• What can parents do (para. 8-10)

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Mini-skills development---identify pronouns

• It is a strategy that more and more companies are
  employing and one that experts around the country
  say we ought to be following .

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Sentence level

• The feeling is that (l 13)
• It is up to sb. to do (l 42).
• There are things that (l 47)

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Word study

• Approach (line 16.line 32)
• We approached the birds quietly and watched them.
• His word is approaching perfection.
• I approached him about filling the managers job.
  ??,??
• All the approaches to the airport were blocked by
  the police.??
• I made approaches to her to join the club.??,??

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Be up to

• ?????Its up to him to decide it.
• ????????? fit for , fit to do
• She is not up to the job.
• Do you feel up to going out, or do you still feel
  sick?
• (??)do sth. secret or bad.
• I see what you are up to.

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sacrifice

• Fall a sacrifice to ?????
• Make sacrifices for ????
• Offer a sacrifice????
• At the sacrifice of
• She sacrificed her life to save her child.
• I wont sacrifice my health in pursuit of wealth.
• Sacrifice ones career for the family.

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Nature

• By nature ??,??,??
• Cats are by nature very clean.
• In nature ???,???,???
• His problem was personal in nature.

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Useful expressions

• An essential step towards
• Develop the thoughts into workable ideas
• There is no risk in doing
• Cross conventional boundaries
• Break patterns
• Make order out of confusion

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Post-reading discussion

• Is creativity a skill or a personal quality?
  Justify your answers.

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Assignment

• Read after-class reading passages and try to
  answer the following questions.
• What different reactions do Americans and Chinese
  have for the key-slot anecdote? What
  adult-children relationship is reflected in it?
• What do Americans value in kids growth process?
• What are the two approaches to education? Explain
  them in your own words.

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Key to vocabulary exercises

• ?
• 1,confused, confusion 2. intelligence,
  intelligent, 3 humorous, humor, 4, strategy,
  strategic, 5, motivated, motivation.
  6,combination, combined, 7, creation,
  creative, 8, pursuit , pursuing, 9,
  multiplication, multiply 10, employ, employment,

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• 2
• Perfected,
• Approaching
• Value
• Functions
• Approach
• Perfect
• Honor
• Function
• Honor
• value

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• 3)
• Dismiss
• Consequently
• Promoting
• Applies
• Vital
• Scorned
• Conventional
• Original

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• Consciously
• Innovative
• Unconsciously
• Determines
• Imagination
• Aware
• Control
• Created
• Extension
• Technique
• Vulnerable
• Unfolding
• Joyful
• Gain
• Apply

• At the behest of
• At ones behest
• Have/exercise dominion over

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Further development

• What do they stand for?
• Letter of the alphabet
• Wonders of the ancient world
• Arabian nights
• Signs of the zodiac
• Cards in the deck with the jokers
• Planets in the solar system
• Piano keys
• Hours in a day
• Players on a football team
• Days in February in a leap year

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letter to Shirley

• Shirley is a quiet girl but her roommates are
  active in the dormitory bull sessions before
  sleep(?????). She is very tired of this. Now
  write a letter in the name of Shygirl to
  provide a creative solution to her . Dont forget
  your creative signature.

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Continue the story-(story-making)

• One day there were three people. Their names
  were Manners, Trouble, and Shut up. .

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Solution

• One day they were playing hide and seek. Manners
  got a tummy ache??? so he went to the toilet.
  Trouble was hiding. Shut up was finding Trouble
  when he met a police man.
• The policeman what is your name?     Shut up
  shut up!     The policeman Are you looking for
  trouble?     Shut up Yes!     The policeman
  Where are your manners?     Shut up In the
  toilet.

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Cloze

• Mean
• Include
• Break
• Invent
• Strike
• Limited
• Able
• Not
• Average
• Reason
• that

• Examining
• Another
• Play
• Regard
• Sound
• Because
• Disapproved
• Satisfaction
• but

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On education

• What are the two approaches to teaching
• mimetic approach
• transformative approach
• Which should be emphasized , knowledge or
  creativity?
• facts and skills, favor .over, go out of date,
  update,

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Translation

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• ????????????,???????????
• ???????,???????,????????????
• ????????,???????????
• ??????????????????????????
• ??????????????????????????????????????????????????