M3U2-Project--the-development-of-Chinese-characters.ppt

1、M3U2 Project,Passage 1,万,Can you make out any of these Chinese characters?,贞(会意),今(会意),疾(会意),夕(象形),雨(象形),其(象形),How did Chinese characters develop?,The development of Chinese characters,1、What is the article about? The development of Chinese characters 2、Who invented Chinese characters? Cang Jie 3、Ch

2、inese characters are developed from or for _? Drawing of objects, two or more characters, directions and numbers 4、What did Chinese government do in the 1950s? The Chinese government introduced simplified Chinese characters .,Main idea of each part. Paragraph ( ) Paragraph ( ) Paragraph ( ) Paragrap

3、h ( ),The origins of Chinese characters. Pronunciation and simplification of Chinese characters. Form and development of Chinese characters. Brief introduction of Chinese characters.,1,2,3,4-5,Detailed Reading,Task 1 : Read the passage 1 carefully and try to answer the following questions. 1. Accord

4、ing to the passage, the main difference between the Chinese language and many Western languages should be that _ A. Western languages are usually formed by combining and mixing many different languages from different countries. B. The characters the Chinese language uses have meanings and can work a

5、lone as words, while Western languages cant C. The Chinese language has a long history than western languages. D. The Chinese language is easier to be understood that Western languages.,2. Which is the correct explanation about the forming of the character “休”? A man is lying on the ground with his

6、arms crossed. A man is lying against the tree. A man is running A tree is lying beside a man.,Task 2： Fill in the blanks,different,because,Called/named,drawings,standard,combined,Others,distinguish/tell,pronounced,simplified,Passage 2,The story of Braille,Louis Braille and Braille 1、At the age of th

7、ree, Braille lost his eyesight as a result of an injury 2、When Braille was ten, he went to a school for the blind in Paris. 3、When Braille was twelve, a soldier showed him a system for passing messages at night during the battle. 4、At the age of fifteen, he created a system with pattern of six raise

8、d dots representing each letter.,Read the passage 2 carefully and try to answer the following questions. 1.In those days, books for blind people _ A. were made by different characters. B. Were formed by letters. C. Were developed by pressed paper. D. Used paper pressed against metal wire to form let

9、ters. 2.How many books for blind people were there in the school library at that time? A. Ten B. Eleven C. Fourteen D. Many,True or False 1、Braille was born blindly. 2、The school Braille went to had a library with only 14 books for the blind. 3、There were twenty-six patterns and twelve dots in each

10、pattern in the soldiers system. 4、There were only six raised dots for each letter in the system created by Braille. 5、The blind can easily write in ink with the help of the system created by Braille. 6、Different language has different version of Braille for the blind to use. 7、The soldier and Braill

11、e invented the system for the blind together.,Forms and development of Chinese characters,Pictographs 象形字,Ideographs 会意字,Indicatives 指事字,pictophonetic 形声字,Characters made by combining two or more elements together,The form of the characters which are used to indicate directions and numbers,Character

12、s consisting of the semantic (语意的) radical and phonetic (语音的) radical,The first real Chinese characters,Translate the following sentences into English, using the words or phrases in the brackets.,1.你知道大学与高中有什么不同吗？ (differ) Do you know how college differs from high school? 2. 字母表中的字母代表读音。 (represent) Letters of the alphabet represent sounds.,3. 整体来看，这本书值得一读。(as a whole) As a whole, the book is worth rea