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Book 3 Unit Four Imagination and Creativity Objectives Students will be able to: grasp the main idea of Text A (Einstein was a child of his time.); appreciate the various techniques employed by the writer (using a question as the title of the text, illustrating his answer with various supporting facts, use of subheadings, use of quotations, etc.); master the key language points in Text A and learn how to use them in context; understand the cultural background related to the content; express themselves more freely on the theme of Imagination and Creativity after doing a series of theme-related reading, listening, speaking and writing activities; write an essay using comparison and contrast. Teaching Methods: 1. Task-based teaching method 2 Communicative teaching method Teaching Steps Step 1: Warming up Introduction of Einstein and his achievements. Debate----- Einstein used to say “Imagination is more important than knowledge” while some other experts attach more importance to knowledge. What’s your opinion? Argument for: ⑴Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand while imagination helps us venture beyond the unknown and opens up new worlds and possibilities. ⑵Imagination can help knowledge seekers discover new frontiers which may be the basis of undiscovered knowledge. ⑶Knowledge is simply a tool. Without imagination that tool could be sitting idle forever. Argument against: ⑴Knowledge is a stepping stone to imagination. ⑵Knowledge without imagination can be productive while imagination without knowledge can lead us nowhere. ⑶Knowledge helps restrain imagination from developing into daydreaming. Have Ss do the theme-related Cloze exercise to know more about imagination. Then move on to the study of Text A Step 2: Global Analysis of Text A 1. Organization of the Text: Draw Sss attention to the use of subheadings in Text A. Then ask them to do Text Organization exercise 1, p.100 Parts Para(s) Main Ideas 1 1~3 A young husband and father, Albert