1. Unit18 Inventions

2. Humorous inventions

14. Brain storm!

15. A cat passed by a mouse without even looking at it. Why?
Blind cat/ dead mouse/ electronic mouse
Who is the king of all animals?
The zookeeper
Which two English letters are the ones that people like to listen to the most? CD
How to divide 13 oranges between 9 children fairly?
Make orange juice

16. A tree can’t jump. Why can a frog jump higher than a tree?
Who never goes to see a doctor, even when he is ill ?
A blind man.
It is leaking( 漏水 ) everywhere in the office
on a rainy day, why nobody has got wet?
Nobody is in.

17. Read the passage carefully and try to answer the following questions
What is the text about?
The text is about the thinking strategies that creative thinkers use and explain how these strategies work.

18. How many thinking strategies does the passage talk about? What are they?
Four
Think outside the box
Take another look at it
Make connections
Keep trying

19. Strategies 联想 框外思维 长期试验 换个角度看问题 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. 联想
框外思维
Take another look at it
Keep trying
Look at a problem in as many ways as possible.
Have a long process
of trial and error.
长期试验
换个角度看问题

20. Find out the answers to the following questions.
What is creativity in the writer’s opinion?
How do we think outside the box?
How do we take another look at it?
How do we make connections?
What conclusion can we get from the last paragraph?
Creative thinking, a matter of habits
Failure is the mother of success.

21. Try “impossible” or “crazy” solutions
Try new ways to solve a problem:
Rephrase a problem to allow for creative
solutions
Try “impossible” or “crazy” solutions
Failure also helps move towards solutions
Break away from old thought patterns and
explore new possibilities

22. A change in perception:
Looking in as many ways as possible
From invisible to visible
Try different attempts even false starts to
understanding

23. Think of new applications and solutions
New idea is always connected to what we already know:
Try to connect new and old ideas in as many
different ways as possible
Compare and connect ideas and objects in
new ways
Think of new applications and solutions

24. Get out of your box!

25. Think outside the box

26. Can you only see a Are the eyes of the pot? same height? Two faces.

27. Of course we can see an old man. Look more carefully
Of course we can see an old man. Look more carefully! What else can you see?

29. Para.3 If we look at problems in as many ways as possible, we may
A. find solutions that would otherwise remain invisible
B. have different attempts and false starts
C. improve our understanding
D. make our ideas visible

30. This is a successful TV commercial for a cold medicine.
☺ Good solutions and new ideas are often the result of a change in perception.

31. Forget about the numbers…
Let’s draw!
Example Albert Einstein, who changed the world of physics with his Theory of Relativity, preferred images to numbers.

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

33. +
video phone
heating wire
electric blanket +

34. +
fork-lift truck +
roller-skate
whcow

35.                                       
                                      
Example
Bionics(仿生学) is a science based on biological behavior that can be applied to machine designs and human development.

36. 1. We can get the conclusion from the fifth paragraph that ____
Exercises for Para 5
1. We can get the conclusion from the fifth paragraph that ____
A. to be clever can lead to success
B. he who laughs last laughs best
C. failure is the mother of success
D. never too old to learn
2. The sentence “ good ideas are no accident” means the following except that ____
A. Good ideas never come by chance.
B. The accident is not caused by good ideas.
C. To be successful needs many trials and errors.
D. Failures can also help us move towards a better solution.
3. Another proper title for the text is probably ____
Creativity B. Great thinkers
C. How to solve problems D. Connection

37. Genius (天才) is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration(汗水).
Example I
Thomas Edison made a rule saying that he had to make an invention every ten days.
Genius (天才) is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration(汗水).
---- Thomas Alva Edison

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

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

40. Tick the sentences that are true according
to the text and correct the false ones
1 ( ) Most inventors have a high IQ.
2 ( ) The things we know can sometimes make it more
difficult for us to understand new ideas.
3 ( ) It is impossible to learn how to be creative.
4 ( ) The best way to find a good solution is to look for
one good answer.
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.
7 ( ) Most good ideas are the result of a long process of
trial and error.
Not all inventors
possible
as many answers as possible
know that failure is a necessary
part of the thinking process

41. habits
Creativity is a matter of _____. In order to be more creative, we should think about how we think and _______ good thinking strategies.
To “ think outside the box” is a conscious ______ to break away from old thought ______ in order to _______ new possibilities. A change in ________ to take another look at the problem----may lead to good solutions and new ideas.
Great thinkers are ______of “making connections” and try to ______ new and old ideas in as many ______ ways as possible. By _______ and connecting ideas and objects in new ways, creative thinkers are able to think of new _________and solutions.
Good ideas are no _______.They are the result of a long _____ of trial and_____. If we want to develop our creativity, we can try using these thinking strategies to find new ways to _____ our life.
practicing
effort
patterns
explore
perception
aware
combine
different
comparing
applications
accident
process
error
improve