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The development of Chinese characters

Unit2 Project. The development of Chinese characters. What are these?. Chinese characters. How did Chinese characters develop?. How did Chinese characters develop?. What is the article about? Who invented Chinese characters?

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The development of Chinese characters

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  1. Unit2 Project The development of Chinese characters

  2. What are these? Chinese characters

  3. How did Chinese characters develop?

  4. How did Chinese characters develop?

  5. What is the article about? Who invented Chinese characters? How many types of Chinese characters are talked in the article?what are they? What did Chinese government do in the 1950s? The development of Chinese characters. Cang jie Two,pictographs and pictophonetic characters. The Chinese government introduced simplified Chinese characters . Skim the article and answer the following questions

  6. 1.The Chinese language differs from many Western languages because Western languages use characters which have meanings and can stand alone as words. 2.Cang jie invented the first Chinese characters which used shapes or pictures to represent different objects. 3.The first real Chinese characters were picture-words which turned into standard forms and became more complex over time. 4.Pictographs indicate meanings while pictophonetic characters only indicate pronunciation. 5.The simplified Chinese characters are widely used in mainland China. Read the passage quickly and do the T/F questions. F T F F T

  7. Read the passage again and find out the main idea of each paragraph Para1.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.

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

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

  10. Homework Read the passage more and try to retell the passage.

  11. Goodbye, everybody !

  12. Useful expressions differ 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． turninto 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

  13. 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. • 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! from differs over time According to

  14. 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

  15. Pictographs

  16. Pictophonetic characters • Chinese is a pictophonetic language. Pictophones are composed of two parts,the meaning part and the sound part. The former part tells readers its meaning while the latter part tells readers its pronunciation. 淋 忠 园

  17. Thank you ! Bye!

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