课件18张PPT。Genius is 1% inspiration and
99% perspiration.
---Thomas Alva Edison
How can you divide 13 oranges
between 9 children fairly?Make orange juiceWarming up Creativity.How to be a good inventor?Creative
Education
Hard-working
Practical skills
Determination
Patience …
A discovery An invention= =A discovery An inventionA discovery is__________________
________________________________
______. already existing in nature but not yet knownfinding out somethingby human beings (2) An invention is __________________
______________.something that createdElectricity1. Systems of delivering electrical light and heating to homes and offices
2. Household machines for washing, ironing, keeping food cold, etc
3. Computers, telephones, television, etcThe movement
of air1. Airplane jet engines
2. Air balloons, etc Machines to help people with serious disease The circulation of the blood X-raysBody scanners to see whether you are ill
2. Machines to treat illnesses (like cancer)Stephenson’s “Rocket”An amphibious carDNA１２３DNAPre-reading 1.2.You must go through the following stages before you can have you invention approved , please work out a suitable order. Applying for a patent
2. Finding a problem
3. Doing research
4. Testing the solution
5. Thinking of a creative solution
6. Deciding on the invention First reading1.The purpose of the text is __________.
A.to show us how to trap the snakes but not to kill them
B.to tell people how to apply for a patent of the
writer’s new idea
C.to introduce the writer’s new idea of trapping the
snakes and her application for a patent
D.to tell the readers how to get a new idea and make
it a patent
2.The writer were successful to catch the snakes
in ________ attempt.
A.the First B.the second C.the third D.everyCC3、How did the writer catch the snakes? ( )
A. using something the snakes were interested to attract them into a trap.
B. taking their habitat to another place.
C. placing the snakes at a low temperature for them to sleep and then caught them.
D. All the above. CC4、Why did cooling the snakes make them less active? ( )
A. Because snakes are warm-blooded animals.
B. Because snakes like high temperature.
C. Because snakes are cold-blooded animals and they usually hibernate(冬眠) in winter.5.Which statement is the true according to the text?
A.The snakes were so sleepy in the second
attempt that they couldn’t bite the write at all.
B.your product must be different from everybody
else’s if you want to receive a patent.
C.The writer decided to send her invention to the
patent office the moment she succeeded in catching
the snakes.
D.If an application for your product proves to be
valid, you can get a patent immediately.6.According to the text,which subject do you
think can be given a patent?
A.A new star discovered by a scientist.
B.A new novel written by Yao Ming.
C.A new way to make dirty water clean.
D.A new kind of grass found in a mountain which
can be used as a medicine.Check the order you wrote above to see whether it follows the correct stages in producing an invention.Second Reading Applying for a patent
2. Finding a problem
3. Doing research
4. Testing the solution
5. Thinking of a creative solution
6. Deciding on the invention Find a problemThe snakes must be removed but not harmedDo researchLook for methods of removal; the habits of snakes3. The stages in making an invention.Test the solution several times
Try three times to make it work efficiently Apply for a patentThis means the solution is recognizedThink of a creative solutionIdentify three possible approaches: choose oneFind the following phrases and words in
the reading passage (include the Pre-reading)Third reading go through approve think of
decide on call up now and then
get rid of feel proud distinguish oneself
There seemed to be set about
be prepared with cover… with
get down to pick up in expectation that
prove to be pressed release
Homework: 1.Read the text again and again.
2.Fishish the exercises in Learning
about Language on Page 23.
