UNIT 8 BIRTH OF BRIGHT IDEAS

1、 Unit 8 Birth of Bright Ideas By lin Haiying Teaching AimsHelp students to catch the main idea of the text, to understand the structure of the text, to analyze some difficult sentences, to master the use of some key words and phrases, to do some oral practice about the text. Teaching StepsI. Warming

2、 up questions1. Where do good ideas come from according to the author? What does “the unconscious” mean to psychologists?2. Is it just the great creative personalities who have experienced the sudden arrival of a new idea?3. What state was Richard Wagner in when he arrived at the hotel?4. What did h

3、e recognize in his mind when he fell into a sleeplike condition?5. what does the Wagner story tell us?II. Text understanding1. They burst into the mind, glowing with the beat of creation.它们猛然间跃入人人的脑海，闪烁着创意的光芒。2This is reasonable, for psychologists use this term to describe mental processes which are

4、 unknown to the individual.这是有道理的，心理学家就是用这一术语来描述不为人知的思维过程。3All of us have experienced this sudden arrival of a new idea, but it is easiest to examine it in the great creative personalities, many of whom experienced it in an intensified form and have written it down in their life stories and letters.

5、我们都有过灵机一动突然有了新想法的经历，而这在那些富有创造性的天才人物身上最显而易见。我们中的许多人对这种经历有着强烈的感受，并在回忆和信函中将其记录下来。4All truly creative activities depend in some degree on these signals from the unconscious, and the more highly insightful the person, the sharper and more dramatic the signals become.一切真正创造性地活动似乎都在某种5Then at last the mira

6、cle happened for which his unconscious mind had been seeking for so long.这时候，他的潜意识长期以来一直在寻找的奇迹发生了6In this example, the conscious mind at the moment of creation knew nothing of the actual processes by which the solution was found.在这个事例中，意识在创造的时候对发现答案的实际过程一无所知。7But in creative thought the unconscious

7、is responsible for the production of new organized forms from relatively disorganized elements.然而，在创造性思维过程中，正是潜意识使得相对无序的成分变成新的有序形式。III Language points1. .to explain how to form a good idea.eg. He found it hard to form an original opinion.2. forget it, maybe sleep on it.Eg. He will sleep on the matte

8、r and tell us the decision later.3. 。in an intensified formEg. Efforts to reach the injured man have been intensified because of a sudden turning for the worse in the weather.The enemys breakthrough intensified, as there was no hope for their reinforcement.4. All truly creative activities depend in

9、some degree on these signals from the unconscious,eg. Production of fruit and vegetables has also risen in varying degrees. He was not in the slightest degree interested.5. Wagner had been occupied with the idea of the “Ring” for several years.Eg. She was occupied with the cleaning of the big house.

10、 I am afraid that you wont be able to see the doctor for he is fully occupied with appointments this afternoon.6. .yet had never been able to put into form. Eg. Now that you understand the problem, you have to think about how to put it into form to make yourself understood. 7. .he could almost feel

11、them pushing against one another.Eg. The rain beat against the windows.Waves were striking against the shore.8. .in the world of books; in the world of men.Eg. the world of money; the book world the world of sports the scientific worldIV. Text structure analysis In the reading passage we have examin

12、ed how the writer is trying to present through contrast different ways of forming big ideas: one is the conscious mind knows nothing abut the process of idea forming while the other is the conscious mind observes the process of idea forming. By making a contrast, the writer is, in fact, telling us h

13、ow big ideas are formed. It is quite natural that we are making contrasts or comparisons every day. Through contrasts and comparisons, we make our won choices, express different ideas or just tell others there are different ways. Who hasnt compared summer with winter, husbands with wives, residences

14、 with apartments? To make a contrast, the things you are to make a contrast with must have something in common. People will not likely make a contrast between the duties of a university with the rules of playing football. In the reading passage, the common base for making a contrast is some ways of

15、forming big ideas. Just as we have shown the elements of this structure, both of them have a subject, a process and a result.V. DiscussionWhat do you learn from the text?VI. AssignmentParagraph writing P.183gfT;YsOIE89NK;v_Gj5UlMA7jLMq_HoItO4G7YR2Uys5Cx_4Sz_ce0db69_TLbkBO3xqdttVrnpJRxMx|f5eG43iSt6VmKZkQMrYqMteFq8y=EhWVWoDT7DUG7G5kIZxe;Wf4vJLiq67RBvdwnik67YUqKSx=9kP=atW0zhonj:OjyebbkjS=F2bSca_|4ZiM:2TAd8vyWX0pcn=1?ISgwDweRMWCusyctZ?YtZNTsW0HMesnT2CA=f0ED;KzV2E_Qf9qdRkfu:W3=fx7tpboMUueR:jojSt6cHR:lsn7jPpLn1he7q=FFApC|bGg84wbhmtxEFsjNZLo5_okLostOW?5iElvu6tRIzcgeF0frk4S9UUitiSsc;1S4gn:9sCFi6g