Listening and Speaking

old fisherman’s journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea and
victory in defeat In 1954, he won the his _______________.
___________ Nobel Prize for literature.
4 Look at the following two portraits of
Hemingway.
Work in pairs to describe what old
Hemingway looks like. You may refer
back to Task 3 for help. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________
3. James, a news reporter from VOA, is interviewing Mike Stack, winner of this year’s Hemingway-look-alike contest. Listen to a part of the interview twice and finish their talk below.
On the morning of July 2,1961,
Hemingway, shot himself dead in the head
with a shotgun.
Homework
Read some more articles about Hemingway, and try to understand his writing style.
Hemingway started his career in a
_______________ newspaper office in Kansas City at the age
of seventeen. In ____________, World War I He joined
a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian
2. Listen to the news again and decide which
of the following events are going to be held
in Oak Park or Key West. writing workshops a sailing race
a five-kilometer run a literary conference a look-alike contest a fishing tournament a short story contest
Ernest Hemingway--Biography Ernest Hemingway, born on July 21,
1899 in __________, Oak Park Illinois, was one of the
20th century’s major literary figures.
James: Congratulations, Mike! It’s not the first time for you to win this contest, right? I won it last year, too Mike Stack: No. ___________________. James: Fascinating! What first attracted you to it, the Hemingway-look-alike ___________________ contest? Mike Stack: My wife and I were in ________ Key west
Tips
Biography is an accoue written, composed, or produced by
another.
5 All the contestants in the Hemingwaylook-alike contest are required to finish a biography of Hemingway. Contestants A is given the incomplete biography below, while Contestant B is given another one on the leaflet on Page 98. Suppose you and your partner are the two contestants. Ask each other for the information to complete the biography.
statements are true (T) or false (F).
F ______1) The events held are to honour the anniversary of Hemingway’s death. ______2) Ernest Hemingway was born in T Oak Park, America. ______3) The Hemingway Day Festival will F be held on June 21. ______4) Ernest Hemingway left America T and moved to Key West in 1928. T _______5) In Key West Ernest Hemingway spent 13 years of his life.
be, because I looked like a young
Hemingway. James: So you were hooked and _______ entered the contest? What was the result of that year?
Mike Stack: You said it—I was hooked and
Finally I tried old Hemingway look, for
which I won the prize! I grew my beard gained longer and dyed it white, and I ______ weight to look heavy. I almost suffocated _______ in a __________ turtle neck sweater in July, see! James: Unbelievable! But it has really changed your life a lot, Mike? ...
____________________ writing workshops
a sailing race __________________ a fishing tournament __________________ a five-kilometer run __________________
on our honeymoon eight years ago. At a
bar I met a guy from the news media
covering the event. He asked if I was in the
contest and I said no, and he said I should
重庆大学版 高二 (6) Unit 6
Listening and Speaking
1. Some events are going to be held in Key West to celebrate the coming Hemingway Day Festival. Listen to the news and decide whether the following
kept coming back for it in the years since,
although I failed the first year.
James: That must have to do with your young Hemingway look! Have you tried other looks? Mike Stack: I’ve gone for the ____________, African look the Pamplona look, and the ________________! fisherman look
a tour of the birth place an exhibition of Hemingway works
a literary conference Oak Park _________________________ a tour of the birth place __________________________ a look-alike contest Key West ____________________
Hemingway wrote a number of worldfamous short stories and novels, such as ______________ Sun Also Rises (1926) and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). In 1952 he wrote The Old Man and the Sea, a story of an
army. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for _______________________ Canadian and American newspapers to cover the war events.