Background Author CONTEMPORARY 现代大学英 His Life Born in a remote Esarn village in Thailand ·First language Lao Temple boy in Bangkok at 14 Thailand's top university Scholarship to New Zealand to study English 30-year odyssey through New Zealand, Australia,Hong Kong,the UK,Germany,and Switzerland Retired to a solitary life in his home village in 1997,helping needy students and teachers in a Pira Sudham private school with funds set up by himself (1942-） B
Background His Life W B T R • Born in a remote Esarn village in Thailand • First language Lao • Temple boy in Bangkok at 14 • Thailand’s top university • Scholarship to New Zealand to study English • 30-year odyssey through New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, the UK, Germany, and Switzerland • Retired to a solitary life in his home village in 1997, helping needy students and teachers in a private school with funds set up by himself Pira Sudham (1942 - ) Author
Background Author CONTEMPORARY 现代大学英语 His Works Siamese Drama (later renamed Tales of Thailand)(1983) People of Esarn (1987) Monsoon Country (1988) The Force of Karma(2002) Pira Sudham Pira Sudham ossooN Cotn时 The Force af Kanma B
Background His Works W B T R • Siamese Drama (later renamed Tales of Thailand) (1983) • People of Esarn (1987) • Monsoon Country (1988) • The Force of Karma (2002) Author
Background Author CONTEMPORARY 现代大学英 His Influence One of Thailand's best.Sudham's works are concerned with known novelists social-economic-political changes occurring in Thailand ◆Nominee of the1990 Widely read and highly acclaimed, Nobel Prize in Literature his books have given a voice to the poor and the voiceless. ◆c“David of Thailand'” The simplicity and sensitivity of the poor and the low come through his direct and clear prose,yet moving and touching
Background His Influence W B T R u One of Thailand’s best known novelists u Nominee of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature u “David of Thailand” • Sudham’s works are concerned with social-economic-political changes occurring in Thailand. • Widely read and highly acclaimed, his books have given a voice to the poor and the voiceless. • The simplicity and sensitivity of the poor and the low come through his direct and clear prose, yet moving and touching. Author
Background CONTEMPORARY Genre 现代大学英语 Essay based on an interview Interviewer:the author Interviewees:a farmer and his wife Topic:life in the country B
Background Genre W B T R Essay based on an interview uInterviewer: the author uInterviewees: a farmer and his wife uTopic: life in the country
Message of the Land CONTEMPORARY Unit 3 现代大学英 Theme Structure Text Analysis Language Style Detailed Analysis B R
Detailed Analysis Language Style Structure Theme T W B R Message of the Land Unit 3 Text Analysis