Teaching Plan for Unit 8: Birth of Bright Ideas, Ways of Increasing Creativity

Teaching Plan for Unit 8

Section A
    Birth of Bright Ideas
Section B
Ways of Increasing Creativity

Objectives:

To memorize new words and phrases in this unit

To master the grammatical structure —“the more…the more…”

To improve students’ reading skill of scanning and predicting

To learn to develop a paragraph of contrast

To get to know that imagination is more important than knowledge

To improve the listening skills for rents and charges

To learn to deny and admit

Time Arrangement:  

Contents:

I. Key words and useful expressions: 

1.       Section/Text A: satisfactory, flash, individual, compose, contrast, combine, enthusiasm, representative of, be occupied with, seek for, take shape, at work, arrive at

2.       Section/Text B: convince, potential, evaluate, associate, transfer, principle, enhance, act upon, come one’s way, take advantage of, set sth. in motion, take up

3.       Section/Text C: aspirator, vacuum, complain, water-proof, oven, popcorn, patent, zipper, find out, either…or…, experiment with, figure out, do away with

II. Sentence Patterns

1.       Creative thought depends on what was unknown becoming known.

2.       It is easiest to examine it in the great creative personalities, many of whom experienced it ….

3.       …, and the more highly insightful the person, the sharper and more dramatic the signals become.

4.       Falling into a sleeplike condition, he suddenly felt as though.…

III. Text study

1. Summary

2. Discourse analysis