Unit 5 Languages around the World Reading and Thinking课件-2023-2024学年高一年级英语人教版(2019)必修第一册

人教版必修一 Unit 5 Languages Around the World The Chinese Writing System: Connecting the Past and the Present 1 Warming-up The Huangguoshu Waterfall Village Super League Sandu Shui autonomous county What is the video mainly about? Lead-in After travelling in Sandu Shui autonomous county, Lily has a question: In modern society, as the technology develops, people don’t write Chinese characters as often as before. So will the Chinese writing system disappear one day? Can you help with Lily’s question? 3 Vocabulary learning civilisation symbol carve character calligraphy /ˌsɪvɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ n.文明; 文明(社会); /ˈsɪmbl/ n.符号;象征;记号;代号 /kɑːv/ v.雕刻;刻; /ˈkærəktə(r)/ n.文字，字母，符号; /kəˈlɪɡrəfi/ n.书法;书法艺术 human civilisation symbol of peace carve a pumpkin Chinese characters Calligraphy is an art form Activity 1: Work in pairs and fill in the blanks with the right paragraph. A B C Tip: Time At the beginning By the Shang Dynasty Over the years In the Qin Dynasty Written Chinese is a _________ language. Symbols became a __________ writing system. Many _________ of dialects and characters. Chinese writing system began to develop ___________. Chinese calligraphy is an important part of ___________. Today Task 1: Scan the text to find out what happened to the Chinese writing system at those important times. picture-based well-developed varieties in one direction Chinese culture Past Modern The development of the Chinese writing system Task 2: Read para 1&2 and find out information about the original writing form. 1. a __________________________________________ language when it began: where to write: what to write: how to write: picture-based several thousand years ago longgu-animal bones and shells symbols by carving Task 3: Read para 3 and decide whether the following statements are true or false. 1. At that time, as people lived in the same place, people spoke the same dialects and used the same characters. 2. After the Shang Dynasty, Chinese writing system d