Lesson 2 Name Stories 1
What sort of names do you think is popular in China in the 1960s, in the 1970s, in the 1980s
What’s your name
What does it mean
Brainstorm Match the words with their Meanings
specific a) lively2
significance b) difficulties3
abnormal c) very unusual4
vivid d) particular5
hardship e) importance1—d) 2—e) 3—c) 4—a)5—b) Listen to the three students talking about their names
Do the matching in Exercise 4
Wang Jiannan 2
Isaac Evans 3
Heather Smith 4
Isaac Evans 5
Heather Smith 6
Wang Jiannan My name is Wang Jiannan and like many Chinese names, Jiannan means several things at once
When my parents were __________ a name for me, they __________ the character “Nan”
“N” is a type of wood that is used tolooking forcame across ________the roof in the cons