Unit 2 Project
the development of Chinese characters
Teaching Aims:
l To help students to understand the development of Chinese characters.
l To help students to learn useful words and phrases
l To apply what they have learnt to prepare a booklet about languages
Teaching Procedure:
Step One: Reading
1. Show students some pictures about old Chinese pictograph and let them guess what they are.
Ask them to think about how Chinese characters developed.
2. Ask them to read the article and answer some questions.
3. Ask them to read again and get the main idea of each paragraph.
4. Help them to learn some useful phrases and important words.
5. Ask them to fill in the blanks to consolidate language points.
Step Two: make a booklet about languages
Planning