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What’re they?
Chinese characters.
the four treasures of the study
pictographs
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How did Chinese characters develop?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.
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 pic
tures to represent objects.
4. When did the Chinese government simp
lified characters?
In the 1950s.
1.The history of many Chinese words can be seen by looking at how their characters developed. 2.All the characters have been simplified
True or False
F
T
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.
Not allF
FThey 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 or pictures.
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.
differ from in that
over time as a whole
develop…into turn …
into this way in the
1950s
Useful expressions
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 …into1. 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!
According to
over time
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
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.
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