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Chinese Characters
Unit 5 Languages around the world
1.Use strategies to guess the content of the video;
2.Talk about the written Chinese.
Have you heard this song?
Could you recognize these Chinese characters?
Lead-in
The Chinese writing system has evolved from ancient times. Learning Chinese characters can connect us with people from long ago. Written Chinese has also been adapted so it can be used by future generations.
Chinese Characters
∙ What is the earliest form of written Chinese?
∙ How was jiaguwen created?
∙ Who played an important part in the unification of the Chinese writing system?
∙ Why do we say China’s present is connected with its past by means of written Chinese?
∙ Why are so many international students coming to China to learn Chinese?
Before you watch
1.Ancient Chinese people _________ symbols onto turtle shells or bones of animals.
2.Many of today’s characters have their _______ in the observations of ancient Chinese people.
Task 1: Complete the sentences with the words below.
carved classics era origins radicals
3.About 80 percent of Chinese characters are made up of smaller parts, called ________.
4.If you can read Chinese characters, you can read Chinese _______ from thousands of years ago.
5.Chinese characters have been adapted into digital form in the modern _______.
carved classics era origins radicals
While you watch
1.Ancient Chinese people _________ symbols onto turtle shells or bones of animals.
2.Many of today’s characters have their _______ in the observations of ancient Chinese people.
carved classics era origins radicals
carved
origins
Check your answers.
3.About 80 percent of Chinese characters are made up of smaller parts, called ________.
4.If you can read Chinese characters, you can read Chinese _______ from thousands of years ago.
5.Chinese characters have been adapted into digital form in the modern _______.
carved classics era origins radicals
radicals
classics
era
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