Tham khảo tài liệu 'new international express intermediate student book_part3', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Skills focus _-__J Past present and future languages o I Do you find Eng Jis h easie r spea k Í r to wr i te 2 What bou c your own i angu age 3 Do you know which was the earliest form of written language hinese Arabic or Hieroglyphs o Road the article The Rosetta Stone and the ĨĨÍ IV Rosetta Disk 1 Why is the Rosetta Stone in three different scripts 2 When was it made 3 Who found it 4 Where does its name co rue from 5 Who deci phered rhe hi errigi y p h s 6 Why was its discovery important 7 What is the purpose of the new Rosetta Disk The Rosetta stone and the new Rosetta Disk In the British Museum in London there is a black stone called the Rosetta Stone which measures 114 X 72 cm. It is covered with carvings rn three different scripts hieroglyphic demotic and Greek. The stone is written in three scripts because these were being used in Egypt at the time. It is over 2 000 years old and was found ill 1799 by French soldiers who were rebuilding a fort in the town of Rosetta rn Egypt- The structure of the hieroglyphic script was very hard to work out - it was not successfully deciphered until 1822. lean-Francois champollinn. a French expert in languages discovered the text was written by a group of priests in Egypt to honour the Pharaoh. This discovery meant that the Rosetta stone could be used as a kind of dictionary to check the meaning ot early written languages. Today a small group of engineers and scientists want to build a new Rosetta Stone1 or Disk using the same idea of parallel texts Many scientists predict that most of the world s languages will disappear in the next hundred years. This new stone Will preserve some basic knowledge of the world s languages for future generations. 32 UNIT 3 o O Listen co part of a radio programme- about the Rosetta Disk. 1 How many languages will be preserved on the disk 2 Where- is the new Rosetta Project based rpi 3 Howmany yolctitecrs are working on rhe project This IS trial version WWW. adultpdf. com 0
