《大学英语精读》课程教学资源（PPT课件讲稿）Unit 6 A Day's Wait

Unit 6 A Day's WAIT

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?

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 P'll sing for you P'll sing for mother Were praying for the world and for the people everywhere gonna show them all we care Oh my sleeping child the worlds so wild but you've built your own paradise Thats one reason why l'l cover you sleeping child If all the people around the world they had a mind like yours

English Song — Sleeping Child The Way upon the heavens is twinkling just for you and Mr. he came by to say goodnight to you I’ll sing for you I’ll sing for mother We’re for the world and for the people everywhere gonna show them all we 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 like yours Milky Moon praying care mind

we'd have no fighting and no wars child 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 Thats one reason why I'll cover you sleeping child I'm gonna cover my sleeping child Keep you away from the world so wild

we’d have no fighting and no wars there would be lasting on Earth If all the kings and all the leaders could see you here this way they would the Earth in their 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 peace hold arms

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

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 1899~1961 Place of Birth Oak Park, llinois Nationality American Serving as a volunteer Personal ambulance driver in World War Experiences erving as a journalist in the Spanish Civil War PREV. NEXT

Life Time 1899~1961 Nationality American Place of Birth Oak Park, Illinois Serving as a volunteer Personal ambulance driver in World War I Experiences Serving as a journalist in the Spanish Civil War

Working as a journalist and correspondent Personal Experiences Bullfighting hunting, skiing PREV. NEXT

Working as a journalist and correspondent Bullfighting, hunting, skiing Personal Experiences

The sun also rises HEMINGWA (1926) Works A Farewel/to Ams(1929) ERNEST HEMINGWAY For Whom the be∥aswL TO ARMS 7o/s(1940) HEMINGWAY The old man and the sea (1952 THE OLD MAN THE SEA PREV. NEXT

The Sun Also Rises (1926) Works A Farewell to Arms (1929) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Simplicity, naturalness Writing Style directness, clarity, freshness Theme Death and courage Famous Saying "A man can be destroyed but not 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'l succeed

Simplicity, naturalness, Writing Style directness, clarity, freshness Theme Death and courage “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” Famous Saying For a true writer, each book should 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. Views on Writing

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 ★ 卫 nest Hemingway

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.” Lost Generation