Unit+11+creativity (final).ppt

1、Unit 11: CreativitySection A,Where Do Those Bright Ideas Come From?,Unit 11 Creativity,Can you only see a pot? Pay attention to the dark !,Two faces !,Of course we can see an old man. Look more carefully ! What else can you see?,another old man with a stick,a young woman carrying a baby,an animal,Wh

2、at is creativity?,All the beautiful things in the world are the fruits of creativity. Meters,storage battery,Weve successfully made many inventions, using connections. Here are some examples,electrical machinery (电机),+,+,electrically operated bike,What do todays youth think about creative people?,Ar

3、e creative people Fun? Successful? Popular? Smart?,Eight in ten youth believe it is fun to be with creative people.,Almost eight in ten youth believe that creativity helps people succeed.,Six in ten youth think that creative people are smart.,Only one-third of youth believe that creative people are

4、popular.,Half of young people believe that creative people are happy.,Majority of young people describe themselves as creative people.,How to be a creative person ?,Knowledge Industrious To explore Confident Unremitting不懈的 Consider Attitude,He is a imagination and creativity Painter. He is the found

5、er of modern art. Style of writing to cubism立体主义 .,Example,Pablo Picasso,Example,Thomas Alva Edison,Invented the filament lamp, the phonograph留声机, improved telephones,Example,Dante Alighieri Divine Comedy 神曲 Rebirth新生 Banquet宴会,Benz Germany (1884-1929),Example,Example,Madame curie Devoted all her li

6、fe to discovering Radium镭.,Of course all of you can be inventors!,Give full scope to creativity,Safety helmet,A folding bike,fanner,Richard Wagner (1813-1883 ) : the greatest composer of German opera, who made a major contribution to the creation of music drama. Music drama combines singing, orchest

7、ra, verse (poem), story, drama and spectacle. Wagners works include “The Ring of the Nibelung”尼伯龙根的指环 (1853-1874), a set of four operas based on historical German stories.,Part Background Information therefore, I exist”, a key point in Descartes philosophy. He claimed that the only thing anyone can

8、be certain of is that s/he thinks and, therefore, s/he exists. The “I” is the mind which can exist without being extended so that it can in principle survive the death of the body.,Home,Pre-reading Activities,First reading Scan the text with the following questions in your mind. Try to answer them a

9、fter first reading. And then, write an outline of the text in Section A.,Where do good ideas come from ? How many examples or ways of getting good ideas are discussed?,Home,Outline:,Title: Where do those bright ideas come from? (The birth of bright ideas) Main idea: Good ideas come from the unconsci

10、ous mind or brain activity usually not controlled by us. It is easiest to examine it in the great creative personalities. Wagner: A sudden explosion of a new conception into consciousness. Poincare: The conscious mind observing the new combinations being formed in the unconscious. Descartes: A new i

11、dea in a dream whose content is very close to conscious thought. Conclusion: The unconscious is the source of instinctive activity,Part Text Learning accept without verification or proof vt.假定,设想,承担,(想当然的)认为,I assumed you can speak French fluently. 让我们假定这是真的,Intensify：make or become stronger （使加强，增强

12、）,翻译： 由于天气突然变得更加恶劣，援救伤员的工作加紧了步伐。,Efforts to reach the injured man have been intensified because of a sudden turning for the worse in the weather.,Key：,Back,Para. 4 Lets see the example of Richard Wagner composing the prelude (opening) to Rhinegold. Wagner said that he had been occupied with the idea

13、 of the Ring for several years, and for many weary months had been struggling to make a start with the actual composition. On September 4, 1853, he reached Spezia sick, went to a hotel, could not sleep for noise without and fever within, took a long walk the next day, and in the afternoon flung hims

14、elf on a couch intending to sleep.,Then at last the miracle happened for which his unconscious mind had been crying out for so many months. Falling into a sleeplike condition, he suddenly felt as though he were sinking in a mighty flood of water, and the rush and roar soon took musical shape within

15、his brain. He recognized that the orchestral prelude to the Rhinegold, which for a long time he must have carried about within him, yet had never been able to put it into form, had at last taken its shape within him.,Para. 5 A lot of ideas kept surging in his head; he could almost feel them pushing

16、against one another, until two of them united, so to speak, to form a stable combination. When morning came, he had established the existence of one class of Fuchsian functions.,Chinese,句型提炼： When morning came, he had established the existence of one class of Fuchsian functions.,到了早晨，他已经确证了一类富克斯函数的存

17、在。,The world “come” is not only used to talk about a persons or an animals action but also an event or time.,翻译: 经过多次失败后才获得成功是常有的事。,It often happens that success comes after many failures.,Back,Para. 6 A third type of creative experience is exemplified by the dreams which came to Descartes at the ag

18、e of twenty-three and determined the path he was to follow for the rest of his life. Descartes tells how he had unsuccessfully searched for certainty, first in the world of books, and then in the world of men. Then in a dream on November 10, 1619, he made the significant discovery that he could only

19、 find certainty in his own thoughts, cogito ergo sum (I think; therefore, I exist). This dream filled him with intense religious enthusiasm.,Chinese,Exemplify : show by example,The rooms style exemplifies his ideal of beauty and plainness.,Back,翻译： 这间房子的风格表明了他对美与质朴的憧憬(可以作为的例证） 。,翻译：我敬慕我的父亲，我对他的工作充满了

20、好奇。,fill sb. with ：make sb. experience (that feeling),I admire my father and his work filled me with curiosity.,Key：,Back,Para. 7 Wagners, Poincares, and Descartes experiences are representative of countless others in every field of culture. The unconscious is certainly the source of instinctive act

21、ivity and therefore sometimes in conflict with the demands of reason, as Freud emphasized. But in creative thought the unconscious is responsible, not for conflict, but for the production of new organized forms from relatively disorganized elements.,Chinese,be representative of ：be like or common to

22、 others of the same class,翻译：他根本不能代表那起意外事故的受害者。,He was in no way representative of those who suffered from the accident.,Key:,Back,Main Idea and Devices for Developing the Text,Main idea of the text ?,Good ideas come from the unconscious mind or brain activity usually not controlled by us. It is eas

23、iest to examine it in the great creative personalities.,Devices for developing it?,举例法,时空法,对比法,Home,Exemplification 举例法,Back,1）Take the example of Richard Wagner composing the opening to “Rhinegold”. (Para. 4) As a contrast, we may consider a famous story: the discovery by Henri Poincare, , of a new

24、 mathematical method called the Fuchsian functions. (Para. 5) 3) A third type of creative experience is exemplified by the dreams which came to Descartes at the age of twenty-three and determined his life path.(Para. 6),Sequence of Time and Space 时空顺序法,Back,You think about a problem until youre tired, forget it, maybe sleep on it, and then flash! When you arent thinking about it, suddenly the answer arrives as a gift from the gods. (