Shanghai Expo Writing Sheet

As Shanghai Expo is on the countdown, I think many teachers started to think about the culture project for Chinese class. I started to introduce the website or materials about Shanghai Expo couple of days ago. The thumbnail is the a writing sheet I made with Shanghai  Expo logo. I believe the writing project will look better if it has a Expo style writing sheet.

If you’d like to read more about Expo, you may click the links below:
Pictures of Shanghai Expo Moscot HaiBao
Video of Expo Shanghai Online
Website – Expo Shanghai Online

Click the Document Here to Download the PDF version

  Shanghai Expo 2010 Writing Sheet (299.1 KiB, 573 hits)

Daily Character 中

Character 中 has two pronunciations. One is zhōng, and another is zhòng. When 中 is read as zhōng, it means centre/middle, and 中 in the word 中国 (zhōng ɡuó) has this pronunciation. The reason 中 read as zhōng in the word 中国 (zhōng ɡuó) is because ancient Chinese people believe China is in the center of the earth. When 中 is read as zhòng, meaning of 中 is changed with pronuncation, which means to hit/fall into.

Pictures of Shanghai Expo Moscot HaiBao

Shanghai Expo Moscot HaiBao is a  “人” (people)-shaped imaginary character. The mascot “Haibao” which means the treasure of the seas, is another Expo symbol created from Chinese character following the Expo emblem in the shape of “世” (world). Here is a gallery about Moscot HaiBao. If you need HaiBao to decorate your bulletin board, you can save these pictures to your computer.

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Daily Character 上

In the post today I am going to introduce character 上(shàng). 上(shàng) means on/above. Each Chinese character was a picture in ancient time. Though many of them are changed to modern look after so many years, but we still can tell the pictures. Take 上(shàng) as an example, the short line is above the line line, which is close to the  picture of 上(shàng).

Daily Character 你

Since character 好 (hǎo) was written in the daily character post already, 你 (nǐ), 好 (hǎo)‘s good friend, need to be introduced as well. 你好(nǐ hǎo) is the very common greeting in Chinese. You can use 你好(nǐ hǎo) when you meet someone for the first time as well as when you see them again. If the person you are going to greet is older than you or his/her position is senior than you, you may use 您好(nín hǎo) to show your respect.