单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Are there any differences,between English words and,Chinese characters?,The Chinese language,differs from,Western languages,in that,instead of an,alphabet,it uses characters which,stand,s,for,ideas,objects or,deed,s.,How did the characters develop?,Chinese writing began thousands of years ogo.,According to an ancient story,a man named Cang Jie invented Chinese writing.,One winter day while he was hunting,he saw the tracks of animals in the snow and observed that the appearance of each one was different.Then he had the idea that he could,use different shapes to present different objects,.,The first Chinese characters were,drawings of phisical objects,.Some characters have been,simplified,and others have been made more difficult,over time,.,As a whole,the characters have developed from drawings into standard forms.,Were all characters developed,from drawings of objects?,Sometimes to express ideas,some characters were made by,combining two or more characters together,.Other characters were developed for,directions,and,numbers,.,Compared with English words,do Chinese characters have any,shortcoming,s?,Discussion,They do not show how they should be pronounced.Therefore,a method was developed to have one part of a character indicate the meaning and the other suggest the prononciation.,Shortcoming?,Read the text,Braille,Louis Braille,The man who,introduced bling people to reading,was Louis Braille(1809-1852).Braille lost his eyesight at the age of three,as a result of an injury,.When he was ten,he went to a school for the blind in Paris.,What inspired Braille to create the special system for the blind?,At the age of fifteen,Braille created a system with patterns of six raised dots,represent,ing each letter.,Today,it is the most common system used by blind people for reading and writing.Nearly every language,including Chinese,has its own,version,of Braille for its people to use.,The story of braille,Before the boy created Braille,were there any books for the blind to read?,What were the books like?,The books used paper,pressed against,metal wire to form letters.,What were the shortcomings of the,books?,They were heavy,thus not convenient for use.,Another special system of sending message was mentioned in the text.Who showed the way to Braille and his schoolmates?,It used paper with small,raised dots that could be felt with the fingers.Each letter of the alphabet was represented by a different pattern which consisted of twelve dots.,The system was too difficult to be of practical use.,