Lesson 2 Name Stories

Teaching Aims:

① Learn to talk about the origin and hidden story behind one's name.

② Learn to make suggestions, assumptions and guesses.

③ Help to improve students' listening skills

Teaching difficult and important points

① talk about the origin and hidden story behind one's name

② improve students' listening skills

Teaching procedures:

Ⅰ. Warming up

Look at the pictures of Jackie Chan and Sun Yet-sun then ask students:

Who is he?

What about his Chinese name?

What about his original Chinese name?

Task1:

①.Compared their Chinese names, do you know the history of their name. Why did they change their name?

②. Do their name have any specific meanings？

His original name was Chen Gangsh（陈港生）,which tells his birthplace. In his acting career, he first had a stage name（艺名） Chen Yuanlong（陈元龙）. Later, a film director gave him another stage name Chenglong（成龙）, which has two aspects of meanings: the first one is to express the director's wish that Cheng could become famous, just like a dragon- the symbol of China; the second it is hoped that Cheng would follow the example of another well-known Chinese martial star（功夫明星）, Li Xiaolong（李小龙）.

Ⅱ. Speaking

1. What's your name?