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21世纪大学英语第二册 Unit 7 Thinking: A Neglected Art Part I (1st-2nd period) Warm-up activities 1. General Introduction: Your brain is the greatest “personal computer” you’ll ever have. Consider the huge variety of activities it’s capable of: observing, learning, dreaming, wondering, feeling, imagining, comparing, calculating, creating, remembering (and forgetting!). But how often do you think about thinking? The three texts in this unit invite you to do just that. While the author of the first article argues that we don’t value thinking and thinkers highly enough, the second offers some ideas for teaching children or ourselves to think more critically, creatively and effectively. 2. Introduce the discussion questions: —How would you define thinking? —When was the last time you took some time to think ? —How often is the case that when a friend asks you what are you thinking? and you answer nothing ? 3. Break Ss into groups; and have them discuss for about five minutes; and after the group presentation, sum up the discussion and get down to the text. Text-related Information 1. Carolyn Kane Carolyn kane, PhD. Graduated from the Department of Culture and Communication of New York University, and is a professor in the field of education. 2. PTA (Parent-Teacher Association) PTA is an organization of local groups of teachers and the parents of their pupils that works for the improvement of the schools and the benefit of the pupils. The stated purposes of the PTA are to bring the home and school into closer relationship so that parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the training of the child, and to develop between educators and the general public such united efforts as will secure for every child the highest advantages in mental, social, and physical education. 3. Yellow Pages A classified telephone directory (通讯录), or section of a directory, listing subscribers (用户,订户) by the type of business or service they offer, usually printed on yellow pa