Unit 2 Project Designing a booklet Unit 2 Project Designing a booklet

Checking & Previewing Checking & Previewing

Listen to the tape and give the main idea of each part. Para. 1. Para. 2. Para.3 Para. 4-5 Brief introduction of Chinese characters. The origins of Chinese characters. Form and development of Chinese characters. Pronunciation of Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters.

Questioning & researching

1.How old is the Chinese writing? Read the article on page 38 quickly and answer the following questions. 2.Who invented Chinese characters? 3.How was Chinese writing invented? 4.When did the Chinese government simplified characters?

1.How old is the Chinese writing? 2.Who invented Chinese characters? Thousands of years. Cang Jie 3.How was Chinese writing invented? 4.When did the Chinese government simplified characters? Cang Jie saw the tracks of birds and animals in the snow and he got the idea he could use different shapes to represent different objects. In the 1950s.

Presentation

Read the acticle‘ The story of Braille’ and answer. 1. Who introduced blind people to reading? Louis Braille.

2. At Braille’s time, what were the books for blind people like? Were they convenient for use? Books for blind people used paper pressed against metal wire to form letters. They were too heavy and not convenient for use at all.

3. What did the soldier do for students when he visited the school? He showed the students a system for passing messages at night during times of battle.

4. What contributions did Louis Braille make for blind people? His system is the most common system used by blind people for reading and writing. Nearly every language has its own version.

Promotion

Translate the following sentences and pay attention to the underlined. 1. The Chinese language differs from Western language in that, instead of an alphabet, it uses characters which stand for ideas, objects or deeds. 2. However, not all characters are used to describe objects. 3. Though these kinds of characters indicate meanings, one of their shortcomings is that they do not show how they should be pronounced. 4. While the students found the soldier’s idea interesting, the system was too difficult to be of practical use.

Feedback

Fill in the blanks according to two passages. 1. In, a single character can also a word. 2. an ancient story, a man Cang Jie invented Chinese writing. 3. Then he had the idea that he could use different shapes to different objects. 4. However,, the characters have developed from drawing into forms. 5. This became one mountaintop and three lines, and over time the character today. 6. It is easy to their meanings by looking at them, for example, the character for ‘up’ and ‘down’, which are of each other. make up many cases According tonamed represent as a whole standard turned intoused distinguish opposites

7. Sometimes to express ideas, some characters were made by two or more characters together. 8. Braille lost his eyesight three _________ an injury. 9. Since the metal wire was heavy, each book as much as 100 pounds. 10. Books for blind people used paper __________ metal wire to form letters. 11. His system used paper with small, dots that could be felt the fingers. 12. Chinese has its own _____ of Braille for its people to use. combining at the age of as a result of weighed pressed against raised with version

1. 汉语不同于西方语言在于它是使用汉字表示思想，物 体和行为，而不是使用字母。 2. 很多情况下单个的字也能构成单词。 3. 根据一个古老的传说，是一个名叫仓颉的人发明了汉 字。 4. 他想到了可以用不同的形状代替不同的事物。 5. 不过, 总的说来，汉字从图画发展成了标准形式。 6. 只要看它们的字形，就可以很容易区别它们的意思， 比如汉字 “ 上 ” 和 “ 下 ” ，其字形正好相反。