译林牛津版模块三Unit 2 Language备课材料

Period 1  Welcome to the unit

Emoticons or smileys explained

An Emoticon (or Smiley) is a sequence of ordinary characters you can find on your computer keyboard. Emoticons are used in e-mail, chat, SMS（短信） and other forms of communication using computers. The most popular emoticons are the smiling faces (smileys or smilies) that people use to say “don't take what I just wrote too seriously”. If you don't see that it represents a smiling face, tip your head to the left and look at it again. The colon represents the eyes, the dash represents the nose, and the right parenthesis represents the mouth. Many people use MSN and Yahoo, for this reason I added a list with MSN and Yahoo emoticons. When using these during your chat session, they will be converted to real icons.