Unit 4

1. Unit 4 Creativity

2. 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

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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)

7. 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 ….

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

9. 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 manager’s job. 交涉，接洽 • All the approaches to the airport were blocked by the police.入口 • I made approaches to her to join the club.奉承，取悦

10. Be up to • 由。。决定It’s up to him to decide it. • 通常用于疑问或否定 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? • (口语）do sth. secret or bad. I see what you are up to.

11. sacrifice • Fall a sacrifice to 成为牺牲品 • Make sacrifices for 为而牺牲 • Offer a sacrifice献供祭品 • At the sacrifice of • She sacrificed her life to save her child. • I won’t sacrifice my health in pursuit of wealth. • Sacrifice one’s career for the family.

12. Nature • By nature :生就，圣来，本来 • Cats are by nature very clean. • In nature: 本质上，现实上，事实上 • His problem was personal in nature.

13. 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

14. Post-reading discussion • Is creativity a skill or a personal quality? Justify your answers.

15. 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.

16. Key to vocabulary exercises • 一： • 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,

17. 2: • Perfected, • Approaching • Value • Functions • Approach • Perfect • Honor • Function • Honor • value

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

19. Consciously Innovative Unconsciously Determines Imagination Aware Control Created Extension Technique Vulnerable Unfolding Joyful Gain Apply At the behest of At one’s behest Have/exercise dominion over

20. 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

21. letter to Shirley • Shirley is a quiet girl but her roommates are active in the dormitory bull sessionsbefore sleep（寝室夜谈会）. She is very tired of this. Now write a letter in the name of “Shygirl” to provide a creative solution to her . Don’t forget your creative signature.

22. Continue the story-(story-making) • One day there were three people. Their names were Manners, Trouble, and Shut up. ….

23. Solution • One day they were playing hide and seek. Manners got a tummy ache肚子疼 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.

24. Mean Include Break Invent Strike Limited Able Not Average Reason that Examining Another Play Regard Sound Because Disapproved Satisfaction but Cloze

25. 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,

26. Translation • 一个具有独创性的人没有难题，只有发挥独创性的机会。 • 我一直在做力所不能及的事，那是为了学会如何去做。 • 存在是为了改变，改变是为了成长，成长是为了不断创造自我。 • 想要创造性地生活，我们必须不再害怕犯错。 • 创造性就是发明、试验、成长、冒险、犯规、犯错和游戏。 • 我总是想着创新。我的未来始于每天清晨睡梦初醒之时。每天我的都在自己的生活中找到富有创造性的事情来做。