Unit2 Project

What are these?

How did Chinese characters develop?

How did Chinese characters develop?How did Chinese characters develop?

Skim the article and answer the following questions

What is the article What is the article about?about?

Who invented Chinese Who invented Chinese characters?characters?

How many types of How many types of Chinese characters are Chinese characters are talked in the article?talked in the article?what are they?what are they?

What did Chinese What did Chinese government do in the government do in the 1950s1950s??

The development of ChineThe development of Chinese characters.se characters.

Cang jieCang jie

Two,pictographs and pictTwo,pictographs and pictophonetic characters.ophonetic characters.

The Chinese government iThe Chinese government introduced simplified Chinntroduced simplified Chinese characters ese characters . .

Read the passage quickly and do the T/F questions.

1.The Chinese language differs from many Western lan1.The Chinese language differs from many Western languages because Western languages use characters whicguages because Western languages use characters which have meanings and can stand alone as words.h have meanings and can stand alone as words.

2.Cang jie invented the first Chinese characters which us2.Cang jie invented the first Chinese characters which used shapes or pictures to represent different objects.ed shapes or pictures to represent different objects.

3.The first real Chinese characters were picture-words w3.The first real Chinese characters were picture-words which turned into standard forms and became more comhich turned into standard forms and became more complex over time.plex over time.

4.Pictographs indicate meanings while pictophonetic char4.Pictographs indicate meanings while pictophonetic characters only indicate pronunciation.acters only indicate pronunciation.

5.The simplified Chinese characters are widely used in m5.The simplified Chinese characters are widely used in mainland China.ainland China.

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Read the passage again and find out the main idea of each paragraphPara1.Brief introduction of Chinese characters .Para2.Origin of Chinese characters.Para3.The first Chinese Character-pictograph.Para4.Examples of pictographs.Para5.Characters are used to express ideas.Para6.Characters are used to express directions or numbers.Para7.Pictophonetic characters.

Para8.Simplified Chinese characters.

Read the report again and complete the chart in your papers. If there are no examples in the report,you can give some exa

mples of your own.

Listen to the tape Listen to the tape and fill the blanks and fill the blanks according to the according to the passage.passage.

HomeworkRead the passage more and try to Read the passage more and try to

retell the passage.retell the passage.

Goodbye,

everybody !

Useful expressionsdiffer from 与．．．不同in that 　 因为over time 　 多年来as a whole 总体来说develop from …into… 从．．发展成．turn 　 into 变成this way 用这种办法in the 1950s 在二十世纪五十年代according to 根据

Fill in the blanks with the phrases from the box below.

over time according to differ fromin that this way turn…into as a whole develop …into1. Old English _______ greatly _____ the

modern English we use today.2. Life on the island has changed __________

because of the growing number of tourists. 3. ______________ the tickets, the train will

leave at 8:30. We’d better hurry to get to the station on time!

differs from

According to

over time

4. She said it was the teacher’s praise and encouragement that ______ her ______ a good student.5. Write your homework carefully.You will avoid making spelling mistakes __________.6. Considering your idea ____________, I think it will contribute to the development of the company. However, it may cause some problems as well.7.I was lucky _________ I was able to find what I wanted.

turned into

this way as a whole

in that

Pictographs

Pictophonetic characters

Chinese is a pictophonetic language. PictChinese is a pictophonetic language. Pictophones are composed of two parts,the mophones are composed of two parts,the meaning part and the sound part. The formeeaning part and the sound part. The former part tells readers its meaning while the lr part tells readers its meaning while the latter part tells readers its pronunciation. atter part tells readers its pronunciation.

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