高一英语课件：The development of Chinese characters 江苏教育版.ppt

1、Welcome to Unit2,Language,Chinese characters,The development of Chinese characters,Skim through the article and answer the following questions,What is the article about? Who invented Chinese characters? How many types of Chinese characters be talked in the article?what are they? What did Chinese gov

2、ernment do in the 1950s?,The development of Chinese characters. Cang jie Two,pictographs and pictophonetic characters. The Chinese government introduced simplified Chinese characters.,Read the article carefully and divide it into several parts,Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3-6 Paragraph 7-8,Brie

3、f introduction of Chinese characters. The origins of Chinese characters. Form and development of Chinese characters. Pronunciation of Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters.,Listen to the tape and do T/F,The Chinese language differs from many Western languages because Western languages

4、 use characters which have meanings and can stand alone as words. Cang jie invented the first Chinese characters which used shapes or pictures to represent different objects. The first real Chinese characters were picture-words which turned into standard forms and became more complex over time. Pict

5、ographs indicate meanings while pictophonetic characters indicate pronunciation. The method of creating pictophonetic is still used today.,(F) (T) (F) (F) (T),Language points,differ from in that over time as a while turn into,not be the same /unlike for the reason that/because past a long time in ge

6、neral become/change into,Fill in the blanks with the phrases from the box below.,over time differ from in that turninto as a whole,Old English _ greatly _ the modern English we use today. 2. Life on the island has changed _ because of the growing number of tourists who visit it every year. 3. She sa

7、id it was the teachers praise and encouragement that _ her _ a good student.,differs,from,over time,turned,into,4. Considering your idea _, I think it will contribute significantly to the development of the company. However, it may cause some problems as well. 5.I was lucky _ I was able to find what

8、 I wanted,as a whole,in that,Use the following words and phrases to retell the article,Chinese language, differ from, represent, ideas, objects, actions, Cang jie,shapes ,picture,pictographs,drawing standard forms, pictophonetic characters,indicating,meaning showing,sound, in the 1950s,Chinese gover

9、nment, simplified,widely used,Fill in the blanks with proper words or phrases,The Chinese language _ _many Western languages _ _it uses characters which have meanings and can stand alone _a word.Chinese people invented numerous characters to represent_ , _ or _. It is said that Cang Jie invented Chi

10、nese writing which used different _or _to represent different objects.the characters have _ from drawings _ standard forms. _ indicate meanings while _ _ are composed of the meaning part and the sound part.,differs from,in that,as,ideas objects actions,shapes pictures,developed,into,Pictographs,pict

11、ophonetic characters,Thank you !,Bye!,Cang jie,Cang jie, who is believed to have invented Chinese characters,used to work as history official under the Yellow Emperor in ancient China. It is said that the inscriptions (题字) on bones and tortoise(龟) shells(外壳) were also invented by him. He has been ta

12、ken as a legendary figure(人物) in Chinese history and culture.,Pictographs,Pictographs are another from of notation(符号,标志) in transcribing(转录,抄写) linguistic(语言上的) meaning, and they are where most Chinese characters can find their origins(起源). Another example is Egyptian hieroglyphics (象形文字).,Pictopho

13、netic characters,Chinese is a pictophonetic language. Pictophones are composed of tow parts,the meaning part and the sound part. The former part tells readers its meaning while the latter part tells readers its pronunciation. It is estimated(估计) that around 90 per cent of these characters today display this symbolism(象征意义). So, by looking at the two components(成分), th