Unit18Inventions.doc

Unit 18 InventionsThe second periodBackground Information:Teacher: xxxCourse: Unit 18 InventionsTextbook: 40 Senior English for China Students Book 2 B Text: What will you think of next?Students: 40 Senior high school students, Grade 2Type of the lesson: Reading Time duration: 45 minutesDate: 2011-5-8Teaching Objectives：By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:1. Learn and master the useful expressions2. Train the students reading ability3. Learn about creativity and thinking strategiesKey points 1. How to get the main idea of each paragraph2. Let students understand the four thinking strategies of the text3. Appeal students to pay attention to the importance of creativity and thinking creativelyTeaching Methods: 1. Discussion to arouse the students interest in the text2. Fast reading to let the students get the general idea of the text 3. Careful reading to get the detailed information4. Question-and-answer activity to let the students understand the text better Teaching Aids: 1. Blackboard 2. Chalk 3. PicturesTeaching Procedures:Step Lead-in (2 minutes)1) Greetings Greet the whole class as usual.2) Use picture to lead in the topic.Step Pre-reading (6 minutes)Discuss the questions in pairs or groups.1. Are some people born creative, or is it possible to learn how to be creative?2. Do you have to be very intelligent to be an inventor?3. How do people come up with ideas for new inventions?Step While-reading (30 minutes)1. Fast readingRead the text quickly, then get the main idea of each paragraph and answer questions. Main idea of each paragraph:Para 1 By thinking about the way we think and practicing good thinking strategies, we can become more creative.Para 2 To “think outside the box” is to try new ways to solve a problem.Para 3 Good solutions and new ideas are often the result of a change in perception.Para 4 Every new thought or idea has to be connected to what we already know.Para 5 Good ideas are the result of a long process of trial and error.Questions: Q1.How many thinking strategies do the text talk about? FourQ2. What are they? thinking outside the box taking another look at it making connections keeping trying2. Detailed readingRe-read text carefully and understand the text better by answer questions from each paragraph, then learn some useful phrases.Questions in each paragraph:Para 1:Q1. What is creativity according to the text?Creativity is not about getting high test scores, having a high IQ or being smart. Q2. How can we become more creative? By thinking about the way we think and practicing good thinking strategies.Para2:Q1. What is “think outside the box”? Try new ways to solve a problem.Q2. Why should we “think outside the box”?Knowledge and learning are important but what we know and what we have learnt may also limit our thinking.Q3. Whats the authors opinion about partial solutions and failures?Partial solutions, and even failures, give us more information and clues that help us move towards a better solution. Para 3:Q1. If we look at problems in as many ways as possible, we may do what?a. find solutions that would otherwise remain invisibleb. have different attempts and false startsc. improve our understanding d. make our ideas visibleQ2. Whats the writers opinion about different attempts and several false starts?Different attempts even false starts lead to better understanding.Para 4:Q1. Why should thinkers combine new and old ideas in many ways?It is easy to limit the possibilities of a new idea by connecting it to only one area of our previous knowledgeQ2. How do creative thinkers usually think of new applications and solutions?By comparing and connecting ideas and objects in new waysPara 5-6:Q1. Why did some great inventors force themselves to develop new ideas even when they were tired or did not feel inspired?They all knew that for each new invention that works, there are at least ten (inventions) that do not (work).Useful phrases:1. come up with：find or produce an answer/ idea or a solution2. have something in common：share interests，characteristics3. allow for：provide opportunity for4. get stuck：be trapped in5. as with：like6. be aware of：know or realize7. trial and error：trying various solutions and learn something from ones failure (Ask students to use these phrases make sentences)Step Post-reading (5 minutes)Read the passage again and finish exercise 1 in page 60.1. Most inventors have high IQs. (F)2. The things we know can sometimes make it more difficult for us to understand. (T)3. Its impossible to learn how to be creative. (F)4. The best way to find a good solution is to look for one good answer. (F)5. Inventors try to avoid failure. (F)6. The more ways we hav