Unit 6 A Day's Wait
Unit 6 A Day’s Wait
Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reaing After Reading
Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reaing After Reading
Lead-in Zuestions 1.Have you ever been worried about what somebody said only to find out later that you had misunderstood and that there was nothing to worry about after all?If yes, what is it? 2.How do you feel when you are waiting? 3.What is the longest time you have been kept waiting? 4.What is the normal body temperature? 5.How much do you know about Ernest Hemingway?Have you read any of his works?
Lead-in Questions 1. Have you ever been worried about what somebody said only to find out later that you had misunderstood and that there was nothing to worry about after all? If yes, what is it? 2.How do you feel when you are waiting? 3. What is the longest time you have been kept waiting? 4. What is the normal body temperature? 5. How much do you know about Ernest Hemingway? Have you read any of his works?
Ernest Hemingway Hemingway (1899-1961)was born in a well-to- do suburb of Chicago.His father was a physician who liked to hunt and fish in his spare time.After graduation from high school,Hemingway worked briefly as a journalist on the Kansas City Star, where he learned a great deal about exactness and style in reporting.In 1917 he went to Italy with a volunteerambulance unit, then fought as a solider in the Italy army, and was badly wounded
Ernest Hemingway Hemingway (1899-1961) was born in a well-todo suburb of Chicago. His father was a physician who liked to hunt and fish in his spare time. After graduation from high school, Hemingway worked briefly as a journalist on the Kansas City Star, where he learned a great deal about exactness and style in reporting. In 1917 he went to Italy with a volunteerambulance unit, then fought as a solider in the Italy army, and was badly wounded
The experience in WWI gave him material for many of his short stories and some of the novels, including The Sun Also Rises(1926)and A Farewell to Arms(1929).During the Spanish Civil War(1936),he went to Spain as a journalist, strongly supporting the losing Republican side against the Fascist forces of Franco.His experiences there provided material for one of his best novels,For whom the Bell Tolls (1940) In 1952,he published his masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea.In 1954,he was awarded the highest prize a writer can receive,the Nobel Prize for Literature
The experience in WWI gave him material for many of his short stories and some of the novels, including The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929). During the Spanish Civil War (1936), he went to Spain as a journalist, strongly supporting the losing Republican side against the Fascist forces of Franco. His experiences there provided material for one of his best novels, For whom the Bell Tolls (1940). In 1952, he published his masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea. In 1954, he was awarded the highest prize a writer can receive, the Nobel Prize for Literature