Transcript Unit 6.ppt

Unit 6
A Day’s
Warm-up Questions
• 1. What do you often wait for?
• 2. How do you feel when you are waiting?
• 3. What is the longest time you have been
kept waiting?
English Song — Sleeping Child
The Milky Way upon the heavens
is twinkling just for you
and Mr. Moon he came by
to say goodnight to you
I’ll sing for you I’ll sing for mother
We’re praying for the world
and for the people everywhere
gonna show them all we care
Oh my sleeping child the world’s so wild
but you’ve built your own paradise
That’s one reason why I’ll cover you , sleeping child
If all the people around the world
they had a mind like yours
we’d have no fighting and no wars
there would be lasting peace on Earth
If all the kings and all the leaders
could see you here this way
they would hold the Earth in their arms
they would learn to watch you play
Oh my sleeping child the world’s so wild
but you’ve built your own paradise
That’s one reason why I’ll cover you,
sleeping child
I’m gonna cover my sleeping child
Keep you away from the world so wild
Background Information
• Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway
(1899-1961),
American novelist and short-story
writer, was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1954. He
was noted both for the intense
masculinity of his writing and for
his adventurous and widely
publicized life. His succinct and
lucid prose style exerted a
powerful
influence
on
the
American and British fiction in the
20th century.
Life Time
Place of Birth
Nationality
Personal
Experiences
1899~1961
Oak Park, Illinois
American
Serving as a volunteer
ambulance driver in World War I
Serving as a journalist
in the Spanish Civil War
Working as a journalist and
correspondent
Personal
Experiences
Bullfighting,
hunting, skiing
The Sun Also Rises
(1926)
Works
A Farewell to
Arms (1929)
For Whom the Bell
Tolls (1940)
The Old Man
and the Sea
(1952)
Writing Style
Simplicity, naturalness,
directness, clarity, freshness
Death and courage
Theme
Famous Saying “A man can be destroyed but not
defeated.”
For a true writer, each book should
Views on Writing be a moving beginning or he tried
again for something beyond
payment. He should always try for
something that has never been
done or what the others tried and
failed. And sometimes with good
luck he’ll succeed.
Lost Generation
In general, it refers to the post-World War I generation, but
specifically a group of the U.S. writers who came of age
during the war and established their literary reputations in the
1920s. The term stems from a remark made by Gertrude
Stein to Ernest Hemingway — “You are all a lost generation.”
Howard Pyle
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-- American illustrator and author
-- Life time: (1853~1911)
-- Place of birth: Wilmington
-- Nationality: American
-- Works: The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
(1883)
The Wonder Clock (1888)
Stolen Treasure (1907)
Thermometers
A thermometer is an instrument for measuring
temperature. The most common scales are
Fahrenheit and Celsius or Centigrade.
Fahrenheit is used in the United State and some
other English-speaking countries. On the
Fahrenheit scale, the freezing point of water is
32℉ and its boiling point 212℉. Celsius is used
throughout most of the world. On the Celsius
scale, the freezing point of water is 0℃ and its
boiling point 100℃.
Part Division of the Text
Parts Paragraphs
Main Ideas
The little boy’s parents called in a doctor.
1
1 ~ 13
2
14 ~ 25
Assured by the doctor, his father asked
him to relax, but the boy was holding
tight onto himself about something.
3
26 ~ 30
After his return from the hunting, the
boy’s father found the boy still lying in
bed, gazing at the foot of the bed.
4
31 ~ 57
Admitting he had thought he was going
to die, the boy relaxed slowly after his
father’s explanation.
Scanning
1.Scan the text and find the places where there are changes of
places. What are implied by the changes?
Sentences
He came into the room…
But when I came
downstairs…
When the doctor came…
Downstairs, the doctor…
Back in the room…
…I went out for a while…
At the house…
I went up to him…
Implication
Misunderstanding was
gradually caused.
2. Find the places where there are misunderstandings between
the Father and Son, then explain what they each refer to.
Paragraphs and sentences
Explanation
Para. 18-19
“How do you feel,
Schatz?” I asked him.
“Just the same, so far,”
he said.
The Father refers to the
Son’s health while the
Son thinks he’s still alive
up to now though he’s
going to die.
Para. 23-25
“You don’t have to stay in
here with me, Papa, if it
bothers you.”
“It doesn’t bother me.”
“No, I mean you don’t
have to stay if it’s going
to bother you.”
“It” for the Father means
“illness” while for the Son
it means “death. ”
Paragraphs and sentences
Para. 37-38
“It’s nothing to worry
about.”
“I don’t worry,” he said,
“but I can’t keep from
thinking.”
Para. 39-40
“Don’t think,” I said,
“Just take it easy.”
“I’m taking it easy.”
Explanation
The Father means “worry
about his temperature”,
while Son means “think
about his death”. When the
Father uses this phrase, he
just wants the Son to
become less upset.
However, when Son
speaks this sentence, he
means he’ll be relaxed in
face of the death.
“It” for the Father means
“illness” while for the
Son it means “death. ”
Style Analysis
Read the text carefully and find evidence which show the author’s writing
style as listed in the left column.
Theme: Death & Courage
a nine-year-old boy who
spent a day thinking
about his death and
remained calm
Characters: Men of Action
“How do you feel, Schatz?”
“Just the same, so far.”
“It does not bother me.”
“Your temperature is all right,”
I said. “It’s nothing to worry
about.”
“I don’t worry…”
Broad Landscape
the scene of the father’s
hunting
the Loneliness of Individual
Economical and Effective
Dialogue
Short Sentences, Simple
Words
The boy insisted on
staying awake and
refused to let anyone go
into his room.
“What’s the matter,
Schatz?”
“I’ve got a headache.”
“You’d better go back to
bed.”
“No, I’m all right.”
“You can’t come in,” he said.
“You mustn’t get what I have.”
Supply the Missing Information
Read the text carefully and supply the missing information to complete the
following sentences.
1. The boy came into the room to close the window and his
father found him
shivering with a white face and walking slowly .
2. Some medicine should be taken to overcome an acid
condition because
the germs of influenza can only exist in that condition .
3. The father read some stories to the boy while he was lying in
bed but he
seemed very detached from what was going on .
4. The father thought his son was a little lightheaded because
he insisted on
staying awake and asked his father to leave .
5. It was a cold winter day, the father went hunting outside.
a covey of
He took ______________________
a young Irish setter for a walk and flushed______________
______________________
under a high clay bank with
overhanging brush . __quail
6. The father went back home and found his son in
_________________________________
. he had left him, staring still
exactly
the position
7. The father sat down and began to read stories again but
the boy suddenly asked him how
,
long it would be before he would die
_________________________________
the father just felt very puzzled.
8. After the father knew the reasons, he explained to the boy
that a fever of 102 degrees would not make him die because
.
And he gave an
____________________________
there
were different thermometers
example. It _________________________
was like miles and kilometers . Then the boy
became ________
relaxed .
Detailed Reading
• shiver: v. shake, tremble, esp. from cold or
fear
• 这孩子冷得发抖。
• The child shivered from the cold.
She shivered at the thought of going into the
dark house alone.
• shake, tremble & shiver
• 这几个词都是动词，都有“震动”、“颤动”
之意。
• shake是最普通的用语，既可用于人也可用
于物。用于人时，一般指由于激动、寒冷、
惧怕等引起的全身或局部颤动。也可以表示
任何形式的震动，常含有“不规则、突然”
之意。 His hands shook a little as he wrote.
• tremble指人体由于盛怒、恐惧、寒冷或疲劳
而引起的无法克制的轻微而迅速的抖动。
• His voice trembled with anger.
shiver主要指由于寒冷、恐惧而引起的肌肉的
短暂、迅速的颤抖。
She came into the house snow-covered and
shivering.
• instruction: n. the written information that
tells you how to do or use sth.
Read the attached book carefully and follow
the instructions when you set the washing
machine to work.
我把说明书丢了，只好在尝试和错误中寻找
使用这台机器的方法。
I lost the instruction book and so I had to
find out how to use the machine by trial
and error.
• Collocations: ask for instruction 请示
give instructions to do sth.
指挥/命令（做某事）
bring down: reduce; cause to fall
She wants to bring down her weight from
150 pounds to 130 pounds.
我肯定打了青霉素你的体温就会降下来。
I’m sure the injection of penicillin will bring
your fever down.
bring down weight / cost / fever / price
降低体重/费用/热度/价格
• acid: adj. sour; marked by an abnormally
high concentration of a sour substance
• 醋有酸味。
Vinegar has an acid taste.
This is a juicy apple with a slightly acid
flavour.
• acid rain
epidemic:
• 1. adj. (disease) spreading rapidly among
many people in the same place for a time
• There was an epidemic outbreak of
influenza several years ago in this area.
• 2. n. a large number of cases of a disease
that happen at the same time
A flu epidemic raged through the school for
weeks.
The village is suffering from a cholera
epidemic.
trigger an epidemic引起流行病
control an epidemic控制流行病
detached: adj.
• 1) separate; not connected
The houses in that street are all detached.
• 2) indifferent
Some students tend to be busy with study
and detached from the activities around
them.
• prescribe: v. order or give (sth.) as a
medicine or treatment for a sick person
She prescribed some pills to help me to
sleep.
医生开了什么药来治你的病？
What medicine did the doctor prescribe for
your illness?
varnish: v. cover (sth.) with a smooth
appearance
The table has been varnished.
你若有空，能否帮我漆一下门？
If you are free, can you varnish the door for
me?
slip: v. fall by sliding or slide out of place
He caught the ball, then it slipped through
his fingers.
• 玻璃杯从她手中滑落。
• The glass slipped out of her hand.
slide: v. (cause to) move smoothly along a
surface
The book slid off my knee.
We slid down the grassy slope.
• slide down滑下
• slide into不知不觉地陷入
• slip, slide & slither这几个词都是动词，都
有“滑”、“滑行”之意。
slip可指在光面上滑动，但主要是指“身不由
己地滑行”，含有失足或摔倒之意。
slide通常含有加速运动和不断地与光滑的表
面保持接触的意思，既可指人也可指运动
的物体。
slither指“颠簸地滑动或像蛇一样地蜿蜒前
行”。
• 1. The truck slithered down an icecovered slope.
• 2. He slipped on the ice road and broke
his leg.
• 3. A piston slips in and out of the cylinder.
• 4. They were sliding on the ice.
• 5. The boys like to slide down banisters.
• 6. The car began to slither down the hill.
covey: n. a small flock or group (of small birds)
• 一串葡萄
a cluster of grapes
• 一列船队
a fleet
of ships
• 一群牛
a herd
of cattle
• 一束花
a bunch of flowers
• 一群羊
a flock of sheep
• 一群人
a crowd of people
• 一群鱼
a school of fish
flush: v.
1) dirve (birds) up from the trees or bushes
so as to shoot
The children flushed the birds from the trees.
• 2) become red in the face, for example,
when you are angry or embarrassed
她的脸红到脖子根。
She flushed (up) to the roots of her hair.
• flush away冲（洗）去
flush & blush均有“脸红”之意。
flush指因病、饮酒、用力或曝晒而发烧的红，也可指
因其他感情发作（高兴、生气等）而脸红。
blush指因受惊、受窘或害羞而脸红，多用于女性。
1. She blushed with shame.
2. She flushed with pleasure when we
complimented her.
3. She blushed at her own fault.
4. When she entered, her cheeks were flushed
.
poise: v. balance
He poised the javelin in his hand before
throwing it.
• 他把玻璃杯稳稳地放在架子上。
He poised the glass on the shelf.
当你在这些既滑又有弹性的树丛上摇摇晃晃
尚未立稳之际，它们却飞了出来，使你很
难射中。我击落了两只，却逃跑了五只。
动身返回时，我感到很高兴，因为我在离
家不远处发现了一群鹌鹑，而且还剩下许
多，改日可再去搜寻猎取。
hold onto:
1) keep control over oneself
他好不容易才控制住自己。
He had a hard time holding onto himself.
2) have your hands or arms tightly around sth.
The drowning child held onto a plank and was
saved later.
Why does the author describe the hunting scene of
the father in the middle of the story?
• It creates a contrast between the father’s easy
mood and the boy’s terrible tension.
• It shows the father’s character of strength and
masculinity and his influence upon his son. It
enhances the boy’s image of being “a strong
man. ”
• It diverts the readers so that the boy’s real
thought will be a greater surprise when they are
revealed.
• It creates a sense of time passing so that we
know that it is close to evening by the time the
father gets home.
After Reading
• Useful Expressions
• 1. 量体温
take one’s temperature
• 2. 头痛
get a headache
• 3. 退烧
bring down the fever
• 4. 穿好衣服
• be / get dressed
• 5. 对……漠然
be detached from…
• 6. 在床的后端
• at the foot of the bed
7. 保持清醒
• stay awake
• 8. 有点神志不清
• be a little lightheaded
• 9. 光秃秃的树
• bare trees
10. 用……漆
be varnished with…
• 11. 连跌带滑
• slip and slither
12. 从视野中消失
be / go out of sight
13. 不能平衡，不稳
• be poised unsteadily
14. 烧得发红的脸颊
• cheeks flushed by the fever
• 15. 放心
take it easy
16. 眼睛直盯着前方
• look straight ahead
• 17. 尽量控制着自己
hold tight onto oneself
• 18. 开始做
commence to do…
Spot Dictation
• When For Whom the Bell Tolls was published in 1940, it
immediately became a resounding, critical and popular
success and helped cement Ernest Hemingway’s reputation
as one of America’s foremost writers. Readers praised its
• realistic portrait of not only the political tensions in
Europe that would soon erupt into World War II but also
the complexities of the entire experience of war for the
• individualwho found him or herself fighting for a cause .
Hemingway had previously explored this theme, most
notably in his short story collection, In Our Time (1924), and
in his novels The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to
Arms (1929). Yet his attitude toward his subject in For
Whom the Bell Tolls reveals a subtle shift. While his
previous works focused more on the meaninglessness
• of war, this novel ends with a reaffirmation of community
Writing Practice –
Reordering Sentences
• 1. Why there should be a logical order of
sentences?
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Since all the segments (paragraphs,
sections, chapters) make the same basic
demand upon readers to understand,
readers must determine what its topic is
and how its various parts fit together. In
order to reach this goal, there must be a
logical order of sentences.
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2. Guidelines
Guidelines for reordering sentences:
1) Begin by announcing the topic
2) Present generalizations before details
3) Move from the most important to the
least important or vice versa
• 4) Pay attention to forecasting statements,
transitions and headings
Rearrange the order of the following sentences to
make it a logical paragraph.
• 2 1) The Civil War was still going on.
• 5 2) He had been invited to speak at Gettysburg only
out of courtesy.
• 7 3) Everett was a handsome man and very popular
everywhere.
•1 4) On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln went
to Gettysburg in Pennsylvania to speak at the
National Soldiers Cemetery.
• 3 5) There was much criticism of President Lincoln at
the time.
• 6 6) The principal speaker was to be Edward Everett,
a famous statesman and speaker of the day.
• 4 7) He was not at all popular.
Proverbs and Quotations
1. Let difficulties occur but not the loss of
courage.
纵使困难重重，也决不丧失勇气。
2. A good heart conquers ill fortune.
善心克厄运。
3. The wish is father to the thought.
• 有愿望就有信念。
• 4. Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it
is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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— Proust, French writer
• 愉快有益于人的身体，但只有悲伤才能培养
心灵力量。
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—— 法国作家 普鲁斯特
• 5. The first wealth is health.
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— Emerson, American thinker
健康是人生第一财富。