Unit Six Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Being creative ome Zooming In: An Integrated English Course- Electronic Teaching Portfolio Find the pairs of antonyms in Part 2 Part Division of the Text Further Understand in convergent divergent, extroverted introverted extroversion-introversion, humble- proud Part 1 Role-play: Part I Part 2 Role-play: Part 2 Find the pairs of antonyms in Part 2 新世纪大学英语系列教材综合教程电子⊙
Part Division of the Text Further Understanding Part 2 Role-play: Part 2 Find the pairs of antonyms in Part 2. Find the pairs of antonyms in Part 2. convergent ~ divergent, extroverted ~ introverted, extroversion ~ introversion, humble ~ proud Part 1 Role-play: Part 1
Unit Six Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Being creative ome Zooming In: An Integrated English Course- Electronic Teaching Portfolio How do creative people live and work? What are the qualities Detailed Read ing that make creative people different from others? Read the following passage and see what the author says 新世纪大学英语系列教材综合教程电子⊙
How do creative people live and work? What are the qualities that make creative people different from others? Read the following passage and see what the author says. Detailed Reading
Unit Six Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Being creative ome Zooming In: An Integrated English Course- Electronic Teaching Portfolio The Creative Personality Detailed Read ing Mihaly Csikszentmihaly I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work. If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it's complexity. ( SThey contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an"individual each of them is a"multitude Here are some traits that are often found in creative people. These traits are integrated with each other in a dialectical manner 新世纪大学英语系列教材综合教程电子⊙
I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work. If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it’s complexity. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an “individual”, each of them is a “multitude”. The Creative Personality Detailed Reading Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Here are some traits that are often found in creative people. These traits are integrated with each other in a dialectical manner
Unit Six Being creative Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Readins Zooming In: An Integrated English Course- Electronic Teaching Portfolio <e 1. Creative people have a great deal of physical energy, but Detailed Read ing they are also often quiet and at rest. They can work long hours with great concentration while remaining fresh and enthusiastic all the time. This does not mean that creative people are always active. In fact, they rest often and sleep a lot. The important thing is that they know how to control their energy, which is not ruled by the calendar, the clock or an external schedule. (S When necessary, they can focus it like a laser beam; when not, creative types immediately recharge their batteries. This is not a biorhythm inherited with their genes; it was learned by trial and error as a strategy for achieving their goals 2. Creative people tend to be smart yet naive at the same time. Another way of expressing this dialectic is the contrasting poles of wisdom and childishness. S As Howard Gardner reveals in his study of the major creative geniuses of the 20th century, a certain immaturity, both emotional and mental, can go hand in hand with deepest insights 新世纪大学英语系列教材综合教程电子⊙
Detailed Reading 1. Creative people have a great deal of physical energy, but they are also often quiet and at rest. They can work long hours with great concentration while remaining fresh and enthusiastic all the time. This does not mean that creative people are always active. In fact, they rest often and sleep a lot. The important thing is that they know how to control their energy, which is not ruled by the calendar, the clock or an external schedule. When necessary, they can focus it like a laser beam; when not, creative types immediately recharge their batteries. This is not a biorhythm inherited with their genes; it was learned by trial and error as a strategy for achieving their goals. 2. Creative people tend to be smart yet naive at the same time. Another way of expressing this dialectic is the contrasting poles of wisdom and childishness. As Howard Gardner reveals in his study of the major creative geniuses of the 20th century, a certain immaturity, both emotional and mental, can go hand in hand with deepest insights
Unit Six Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Being creative ome Zooming In: An Integrated English Course- Electronic Teaching Portfolio 4 Earlier studies on superior mental abilities show that children with very high IQs do well in life, but after a certain Detailed Read ing point, IQ does not seem to be correlated any longer with superior performance in real life. Later studies suggest that it might be difficult to do creative work with a lower IQ, but an IQ beyond 120 does not necessarily imply higher creativity 4 Furthermore, creative people seem able to use well two opposite ways of thinking: the convergent and the divergent Convergent thinking is measured by IQ tests, and it involves solving well-defined, rational problems that have one correct answer. Divergent thinking leads to no agreed-upon solution. It involves the ability to generate a great quantity of ideas; flexibility, or the ability to switch from one perspective to another; and original ity in picking unusual associations of ideas. Yet divergent thinking is not of much use without the ability to tell a good idea from a bad one and for this, we must rely on convergent thinking 新世纪大学英语系列教材综合教程电子⊙
Detailed Reading Earlier studies on superior mental abilities show that children with very high IQs do well in life, but after a certain point, IQ does not seem to be correlated any longer with superior performance in real life. Later studies suggest that it might be difficult to do creative work with a lower IQ, but an IQ beyond 120 does not necessarily imply higher creativity. Furthermore, creative people seem able to use well two opposite ways of thinking: the convergent and the divergent. Convergent thinking is measured by IQ tests, and it involves solving well-defined, rational problems that have one correct answer. Divergent thinking leads to no agreed-upon solution. It involves the ability to generate a great quantity of ideas; flexibility, or the ability to switch from one perspective to another; and originality in picking unusual associations of ideas. Yet divergent thinking is not of much use without the ability to tell a good idea from a bad one, and for this, we must rely on convergent thinking