1. Lesson2
Name Stories

2. What about his Chinese name? 成龙
Jackie Chan
Who is he?
What about his Chinese name? 成龙
What about his original Chinese name?
陈港生

3. Who is he?
Sun Yet-sun
孙中山
What about his Chinese name? 孙文
What about his original Chinese name?

4. Jackie Chan 成龙 陈港生 Sun Yet-sun 孙中山 孙文
Compared their Chinese names, do you know the history of their name. Why did they change their name?
Do their name have any specific meanings？

5. His original name was Chen Gang sh（陈港生）,which tells his birthplace
His original name was Chen Gang sh（陈港生）,which tells his birthplace. In his acting career, he first had a stage name（艺名） Chen Yuan long（陈元龙）. Later, a film director gave him another stage name Cheng long（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）.

6. Pair work
1.What’s your name? 2.What does it mean? 3.And why did your parents give you the name?

7. Listening
Listen to the three students talking about their names. Which of them matches the following descriptions?

8. This student has parents who wanted their child to be a “pillar of society”.( )
This student has a grandfather who migrated from northern Wales to Manchester.
( )
3. This student probably has an ancestor who made things from metal ( )
4. This student has parents who were inspired by a great violinist Itzhak Perlman. ( )
5. This student is named a purple flower.
( )
6. This student has parents who wanted their daughter to be as strong and capable as any boy ( )
Wang Jian nan
Issac Evans
Heather Smith
Issac Evans
Heather Smith
Wang Jian nan

9. Let’s read a name story
Complete the passage with these phrasal verbs, exercise 5

10. Read the passage in Exercise 5 and fill in the blanks with the phrasal verbs.

11. Can you guess their meanings now?
come across hold up
grow up stand for
count on figure out
look like end up
put up with

12. come across 偶然
One day I came across a foreigner on the campus.
count on 依靠，指望
Don’t count on your promotion this year.
3. figure out 找出，弄明白
I can’t figure out why they went to the forest.

13. 4. put up with 忍受
It is difficult to put up with what they did.
与构成的短语有：
　put aside　　储蓄
　put away　　放好
　put back　　推迟，阻碍
　put down　　镇压
　put off 推迟
put forward 提出
　put on 戴上
　put out 　熄灭
put up 建造

14. 5. try out 试验
His brother likes trying out new things.
6. pillar of society 社会的栋梁
Many parents want their children to be a “pillar of society.”
7. name after 以…的名字命名
The girl was named Julia after her mother.

15. Use the right forms of the given phrases to fill in the blanks:
count on, put up with, come across, figure out, try out, name after
count on
Don’t always ___________ your parents, you should learn to be independent.
The nurse almost can’t __________ the strange old man.
He _________ one of his classmates the day before yesterday.
put up with
came across

16. put up with name after 1. 她无法忍受丈夫的坏脾气。
She couldn’t _______ ________ _________ her husband’s bad temper.
2. 当地的风俗是以孩子祖父母的名字给他们命名。
It is a custom there to ________ the children ________ their grandfather.
put up
with
name
after

17. 4.They haven’t ____________ a good way to test the new machine.
5.This road is ____________ a national hero.
6.The boy is fond of ____________ news idea.
figured out
named after
trying out

18. 6. 我在这本书上偶然发现一首美妙的诗。　
I’ve just ________ _______ a beautiful poet in this book.
come across

19. 1—came across 2—grew up
3—stands for —count on
5—put up with 6—figured out
7—looks like —ended up
9—holding up

20. Culture Linking

21. Western names
Apart from their surname or last name or family name in Britain or the US, most British and American children are given two personal names by their parents, a first name and a middle name. These names are sometimes called Christian names or given names. Some people have only one given name, a few have three or more.

22. Parents usually decide on given names for their children before they are born. In some families the oldest boy is given the same name as his father. In the US the word junior or senior, or a number, is added after the name and surname to make it clear which person is being referred to.
Many popular names come from the Bible, e.g. Jacob, Joshua and Matthew, Mary, Rebecca and Sarah,

23. though this does not imply that the people who choose them are religious. Other people give their children the name of somebody they admire, such as a famous sports personality, or a film or pop star. In Britain the names William and Harry have become common again since the sons of Prince Charles were given these names.

24. Discussion
Where do Chinese families get their names from? What kinds of trends can be seen in the names people choose for their children?