Analyzing The Usage Of The Adjectives “Gu”, “Lao”, “Chen”, “Jiu” And Teaching

“gu”,“lao”,“chen”,“jiu”( 古、老、陈、旧),in Chinese,these four adjectives are synonyms, they have very similar meaning but quite different usages. Based on the research on ontology, this paper will try to give a deep analysis on these four words. Combine with the errors which foreign students always have on these words, center on the practical teaching, creatively use the diagram to conduct teaching. I hope this can help foreign students to master the usage of these four words. This paper is mainly divided into three parts:First: mainly introduce the reason why I selected this topic, the meaning and innovations of this paper, and also including related literature review.Second: analyze“gu”,“lao”,“chen”,“jiu”( 古、老、陈、旧)respectively,including their meaning, sentence construction and pragmatics. Then combine with the corpus, analyze the type of errors.Third: from two aspects of learning subject and teaching subject, analyze the reason why these errors appear, and combine with above-mentioned research on ontology, try to give some teaching suggestions of“gu”,“lao”,“chen”,“jiu”( 古、老、陈、旧).