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Project. What’re they?. Chinese characters. the four treasures of the study. pictographs. 万. How did Chinese characters develop?. Read the article at p.38 and answer questions. 1. How old is the Chinese writing? Thousands of years. 2. Who invented Chinese characters? Cang Jie.
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What’re they? Chinese characters. the four treasures of the study
Read the article at p.38 and answer questions. 1. How old is the Chinese writing? Thousands of years. 2. Who invented Chinese characters? Cang Jie.
3. How was Chinese writing invented? Cang Jie saw the footprints of birds and animals in the snow and he got the idea that he could use different shapes or pictures to represent objects. 4. When did the Chinese government simplified characters? In the 1950s.
True or False 1.The history of many Chinese words can be seen by looking at how their characters developed. 2.All the characters have been simplified T F Some characters have been simplified and others have been made more complex over time.
3. All the characters are used to describe objects. 4. Pictographs indicate meanings and pronunciation. F Not all F They do not show how they should be pronounced.
Please read the text carefully and find the answers to the questions 1.What does the Chinese language differ from western languages in? In that Chinese language uses characters which have meanings and can stand alone as a word.
2.Why did Chinese people invent numerous characters? They invented numerous characters to represent ideas, objects or actions 3.What were the very first Chinese characters? The shapes orpictures.
4. Are the first real characters pictographs? 5. How did the Chinese character ‘mountain’ develop from drawings into standard forms? Yes The pictograph for a mountain was originally three peaks together. This became one peak and three lines and eventually turned into the character used today.
6.How was the Chinese character ‘rest’ was made ? 7.How was the character ‘prisoner’ formed? By putting the characters for a man and a tree together. The character ‘prisoner’ was formed with the symbol for a man inside a square.
8. How did pictophonetic characters combine? They combined part of the character indicating meaning and the other showing sound.
Read the passage again and divide the passage into several parts, then give the main idea of each part. Para. 1. Para. 2. Brief introduction of Chinese characters. The origins of Chinese characters.
Para. 3-6 Para. 7-8 Form and development of Chinese characters. Pronunciation of Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters.
Useful expressions differ from in that over time as a whole develop…into turn …into this way in the 1950s
Fill in the blanks with the phrases from the box below. over time according to differ from in that this way turn…into as a whole develop …into • Old English _____ greatly ____ the modern English we use today. differs from
2. Life on the island has changed ________ because of the growing number of tourists who visit it every year. 3. ____________ the tickets, the train will leave at 8:30. We’d better hurry to get to the station on time! over time According to
4. She said it was the teacher’s praise and encouragement that ______ her ___ a good student. 5. Install this spell check software on your computer. You will avoid making spelling mistakes ________. turned into this way
6. Considering your idea _________, I think it will contribute significantly 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. as a whole in that
Homework 1.Do Parts B1 and B2 on page 93 in workbook. 2. Do Parts D1 and D2 on page 95 in workbook. 3. Review words and phrases in this unit.
