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?2. What’s your name? What does it mean?Brainstorm Match the words with their Meanings.1. 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. 1. 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 construction of traditional Chinese houses. Therefore my parents chose this character for me because they wanted me to _______to be _______________ someone who helps to build a betterhold upgrow upa pillar of society future for society. But, as well as having meaning from the characters that are used for writing, Chinese names can also have ____________ according to their ______. ________, significancesounds In my case Jiannan sounds like ___________________, but I don’t…good and capable boy My name is Heather Smith. “Smith” is one of the most _______ names in Britain. The _____ of “Smith” is “black smith”. A blacksmith is somebody who makes things from _____. I guess there were many of them incommonoriginmetal Europe in the days when ______ were the fastest form of land __________and riders _________ the service of blacksmiths for metal horse shoes. Well there are very few blacksmiths these...
