Unit 4 Creativity. Teaching objectives In this unit you will -know what creativity is and how to develop creativity -read a passage about the approaches.
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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 1. Task 1: Defining creativity 2. 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 1. The feeling is that (l 13) 2. It is up to sb.
to do (l 42). 3. There are things that (l 47)
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Word study Approach (line 16.line 32) 1. We approached the
birds quietly and watched them. 2. His word is approaching
perfection. 3. I approached him about filling the managers job. 4.
All the approaches to the airport were blocked by the police. 5. I
made approaches to her to join the club.
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Be up to 1. Its up to him to decide it. 2. 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? 3. ( 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 1. An essential step towards 2. Develop the
thoughts into workable ideas 3. There is no risk in doing 4. Cross
conventional boundaries 5. Break patterns 6. 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. 1. What different reactions do Americans
and Chinese have for the key-slot anecdote? What adult-children
relationship is reflected in it? 2. What do Americans value in kids
growth process? 3. What are the two approaches to education?
Explain them in your own words.
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? 1. Letter of the
alphabet 2. Wonders of the ancient world 3. Arabian nights 4. Signs
of the zodiac 5. Cards in the deck with the jokers 6. Planets in
the solar system 7. Piano keys 8. Hours in a day 9. Players on a
football team 10. 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 1. Mean 2. Include 3. Break 4. Invent 5. Strike 6.
Limited 7. Able 8. Not 9. Average 10. Reason 11. that 12. Examining
13. Another 14. Play 15. Regard 16. Sound 17. Because 18.
Disapproved 19. Satisfaction 20. but
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On education 1. What are the two approaches to teaching mimetic
approach transformative approach 2. Which should be emphasized,
knowledge or creativity? facts and skills, favor .over, go out of
date, update,