Warming-up Discussion

1. Where and when did the scene happen?

2. What’s the audience response to the moving picture? Why?

3. How did the Chinese boy save the crisis?

4.. How does movie influence people’s life since its creation?

5. Please describe your first encounter with a new thing in your life?

6. Do you think Chinese people are lacking in creativity. Why?

Pre-text Discussion

The author begins the essay with an anecdote. What’s content of the anecdote?

From the anecdote, the author gives his thoughts. What are his thoughts mainly about?

What conclusion does the author reach? Do you agree with him on his point?

Post-text discussion

Do you agree that both Chinese and Americans take an extreme view of creativity? What do you think would be a more rational way to strike a balance between creativity and basic skills

Creativity cannot be taught

Creativity cannot be taught or enhanced through tools, books or toys. Exposure to existing content, art, media or literature may shade or even inspire creativity, but does not power the ability to pull concepts from the unknown.

Necessity is the only ignition for creativity. It is born in a vacuum, nurtured by ignorance of process.

Creativity can be taught

It is said that the human being only uses a tiny fragment of his/ her mind. Some people use the left brain predominantly, some use the right brain predominantly and many people concentrate on conscious thinking and neglect the fact the subconscious mind is a rich storehouse of creative thinking. Here are some exercises to get us to use parts of the brain that we often overlook. The 10 exercises are introduced by Dr Lawrence Katz.

1.Brush your teeth with your other hand.2.Listen to a new radio station on the way to work. 3.Move your watch to your other arm. 4.Sit in a different seat in meetings or at the dining table. 5.Mix and match your clothes combinations. 6.Drive to/from work a different way.

7.Use the mouse with your other hand. 8.Start a new hobby. 9.Read aloud to your friend. 10.After reading, use your imagination.

Arts- liberal arts\humanitiesFine art, music, theatre, film. Literature,

language, history, philosophy --- Professional skills

1. The most telling factor in their success was their sufficient and reliable supplies.

2. Eventually the ping pong champion’s greater experience began to tell and he won easily in the end.

他们在众议院进行游说，希望减少国防开支。

They lobbied in the house of representatives for a reduction in defense spending.

他们的产品只有一种在伊藤出售。Only one of their products found its way into Ito .

Throw light on

Does this incident shed/throw light on the sickness of society.

may well

His appearance has changed so much that you may well not recognize him.

She may well refuse to speak to you because she’s in a very bad mood.

May(might) as well

If there is noting more to do, we may as well to to bed.

You may as well tell us- we’ll find it sooner or later.

Middle class

Bobos:Bourgeoisies proletariat Bourgeois proletarian Utopian socialist

Facile while she made her facile achievement

overnight, he had to spare no efforts to obtain his success.

She made her achievement with great facility.

In beautifully landscaped settings, this unique zoo is great fun for all the family.

Is the meeting held in the informal comfort of the staff room or is the setting a more formal arrangement?

The island was used by Dickens as the setting for Oliver Twist.

the setting of the sun.

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departure for I saw Simon shortly before his departure

for Russia.departure of There was a delay in the departure of our

plane.departure from Mozart's departure from Paris is in

September 1778.

departure fromHe refused to discuss his departure from the

government.

departure[countable]a way of doing something that is

different from the usual, traditional, or expected way.

departure fromTheir new designs represent a departure

from their usual style.radical/major/significant etc departure

(=a big change) This would be a radical departure from the

subsidy system.

alliteration

She sells seashells by the seashore.Superb, superfluous and superior. The cause of any Russian fighting for his

hearth and home is the cause of free men and free peoples in every quarter of the globe.

Peter piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.