[00:00.00] unit 8

[00:02.77]Creativity

[00:06.12]Part Two

[00:09.29]Listening-Centered Activities

[00:13.64]Listening I

[00:17.32]Exercise 1

[00:20.81]Directions:

[00:24.30]Listen to the passage and fill in the following table.

[00:29.70]In China, education is considered a race

[00:35.28]Students have to begin as early as possible

[00:40.03]and have to proceed as quickly as possible along the trace

[00:45.61]The education system is considered to be successful

[00:50.98]when many students have reached the finish line as quickly as possible

[00:57.38]In America, we recognize the race too

[01:02.93]but we feel that the students should have a chance to wander much more

[01:09.59]even if not all of them reach the finish line

[01:14.70]As a result of their wandering,

[01:19.06]some of the participants may have more to offer by the end of the race.

[01:24.89]The advantage of the Chinese way

[01:29.14]is that more students become proficient and reach the finish line

[01:35.29]The disadvantage is that they have less to say or to show once they get there

[01:42.56]The disadvantage of the American way is that many students never finish the race

[01:50.27]The advantage is that some who do go "all the way"

[01:56.39]have very interesting and original things to say when they get there.

[02:03.44]Exercise 2

[02:06.76]Directions:

[02:10.14]Listen to the passage again and discuss the following question.

[02:16.33]Listening II

[02:20.22]Exercise 1

[02:23.71]Directions:

[02:27.60]Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks.

[02:32.50]Many people mistakenly think that creativity

[02:38.90]is the ability to think thoughts that no one else has ever thought

[02:46.03]In fact, creativity is just a way of looking at the ordinary in a different way

[02:55.36]Alex Osborn, one of the pioneers in the study of creativity and imagination,

[03:03.82]discovered that almost everyone is more creative than he thinks

[03:11.30]We usually don't recognize our good ideas as creativity in action

[03:19.80]For example, in a large mid-western city

[03:25.20]a group of thieves had invented a very efficient system

[03:31.36]They could go into a clothing store,

[03:36.76]take all the clothes away and be out of the store before the police arrive

[03:43.06]Then a young man had an idea

[03:47.56]He told stores to change the way they hung the clothe

[03:53.71]He told them to place some hangers with the hook facing in

[04:01.02]and some with the hook facing out

[04:05.52]The next time the police arrived,

[04:09.37]they found the young thieves removing the clothes one at a time

[04:15.42]Everyday creativity is just looking at things from a new point of view.

[04:23.16]Exercise 2

[04:26.58]Directions:

[04:30.00]Listen to the passage again and discuss the following questions.

[04:36.84]1)What do you think of the young man's solution?