Unit 6(3),Students

Unit 6 A Day’s Wait
The small boy’s illness seemed not too serious. Yet he was clearly very worried about something. Whatever was it?
Information related to the text
a. About the author
Ernest 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, Ernest 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 volunteer ambulance unit, then fought as a soldier in the Italian army, and was badly wounded. This experience in World War I gave him material for many of his short stories and some of his novels, including The Sun also Rises (1926) and A Farwell to Arms (1929).During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), he went to Spain as a journalist, 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.
b. About thermometer
Fahrenheit, used in everyday temperature measurement in the USA and some other English-speaking countries. On the Fahrenheit scale, the freezing point of water is 32o and its boiling point 212 o .
Celsius, or Centigrade, used throughout most of the world. On the Celsius scale, the freezing point of water is 0 o and its boiling point 100 o .
To convert a temperature reading in degrees Fahrenheit to Celsius, subtract 32 and then multiply by 5/9. To convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit, multiply by 9/5 and then add 32. The conversion formulas for these are:
Fahrenheit to Celsius: C= 5/9 (F-32)
Celsius to Fahrenheit: F= 9/5 (C+32)
1. The outline
1) Useful Expressions
2) Text Interpretation
3) Word Family
4) Sentence Structure
5) Translation Practice
6) Reading Skill
7) Guided Writing
8) Homework
1) Useful Expressions
✓M loves company. 同病相怜。

✓酸雨Acid rain
✓猪流感Swine flu
✓流行病An epidemic disease
✓Detached house独立式住宅
✓盗版Pirated edition
✓Prescribed course必修课程
✓Brush up复习，提高，擦亮
✓Glassy-eyed面无表情，目光呆滞
✓ A slip of the tongue口误
✓Let something slide任其自然发展
✓Flush a toilet冲马桶
✓稳定的物价Steady prices
✓冷淡的微笑An icy smile
✓Thermal underwear保暖内衣
✓旅游淡季A slack season for T
✓量体温Take one’s temperature
✓退烧Bring down the fever
✓
2)Text Interpretation
(1)Warm-up questions
(2)Global analysis
(3)Detailed reading
(4)Picture talk
(5)Inspiring quotations
(1). Warm-up questions
Related topics
a.Tell us one of your unforgettable experiences of waiting for something
or somebody.
b.Do you think many of us are risking our health?
c.What do you think of death?
d.Have ever been worried by what somebody said only to find out later
you had misunderstood and that there was nothing to worry about?
(2)Global analysis
What type is the text?
A narration 记叙文a movie
B description 描述文a picture
C exposition 说明文a lecture
D argumentation 议论文a debate
What pattern is the text?
A problem-solution 问题-解决
B cause-effect 因果
C general-specific 总-分
D time / sequence 时间/ 顺序
Style Analysis
Category Style Evidence
Theme Death/courage Stay calm facing death
Character Masculine/lonely Hold tight/refuse company
Landscape Broad Snow landscape
Language Short/simple Dialogue esp.
(3)Discussion
Why does the author describe the hunting scene of the father in the middle of the story?
a.It creates a contrast between the father’s easy mood and the boy’s terrible
tension.
b.It shows the father’s character of strength and masc ulinity and his influence
upon his son. It enhances the boy’s image of being “a strong man. ”
c.It diverts the readers so tha t the boy’s real thought will be a greater surprise
when they are revealed.
d.It creates a sense of time passing so that we know that it is close to evening by
the time the father gets home.
The boy cried very easily at trifling matters? What are the possible reasons?
a.As a spoiled boy, he often complained about unimportant things.
b.He had been tense the previous day that he couldn’t contr ol his emotions when
he finally relaxed.
c.He had waited so long to die that in a sense he was disappointe
d.
(4) Part division
Please divide the passage into parts, that is, how many parts are there in the passage? Then offer the main idea of each part
(6)Detailed reading
He walked slowly as though it ached to move.
You better go back to bed. (Note 3)
I’ll see you when I’m dressed.
…capsules with instructions for giving them.
I made a note of the time to give the capsules.
He seemed very detached from what was going on.
It was a bright cold day, the ground covered with a sleet that had frozen so that it seemed as if all the bare trees … had been varnished with the ice, … having it slide away over the ice.
Coming out while you were poised unsteadily … they made difficult shooting, and
I … started back pleased to have found … and happy there…
On that thermometer thirty-seven is normal.
He hold over himself relaxed.
The next day it was very slack.
(7)Inspiring quotations
The first wealth is health. 健康是人生第一财富。

A good medicine tastes bitter. 良药苦口。

A man may be destroyed, but not defeated.一个人可以被毁灭，但不能被打败。

Let difficulties occur but not the loss of courage. 纵使困难重重，也决不丧失勇气。

3) Word Family
●Tremble, quiver, misery, dose, pill, bowel, surmount, sour, alkaline, bacterium,
contagious, pandemic, infectious, inflammation, indifferent, unconcerned, attached, disconnected, piratical, dizzy, faint, hot/cool/clear/heavy-headed, prescription, scribe, script describe, sleety, Ireland, brook, stream, slipper, flock, overhead, overhear, distribute, shakily, flexible, commencement, thermos flask/bottle, slacken …
●IV. Enriching your word power (143-4)
4) Sentence Structure
1.…would rather (not/that)
I’d rather stay awake
I’d rather you didn’t.
2.…before… (…后才…)
It will be months before he is fit for work.
3.be of no/little/great/some + n.
Your advice is of great help.
5) Reading Skill
Increasing Word Power
Look and listen for new words.
Write down your new words.
Find the meanings of new words
Make the new words your own.
Enter several new words each day.
6) Guided Writing
Reordering Sentences
Begin by announcing the topic.
Present generalizations before details.
Move from the most important to the least important or vice versa.
Pay attention to forecasting statements, transitions and headings.
●Sentences Analysis (Please analyze the sentence pattern as well as language
points which are required to understand thoroughly.)
1.He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly as if it ached to
move. 他浑身发抖，脸色苍白，步履缓慢，好像一动就引起疼痛似的。

2.He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached from what was going on. 他
静静地躺在床上，对周围正发生的事显得毫无兴趣。

3.“I’d rather stay awake”. “我宁愿醒着”。

ing out while you were poised unsteadily on the icy, springy brush they
made difficult shooting…当你在这些既滑又有弹性的树丛上摇摇晃晃尚未站稳之际，它们却飞了出来，使你很难射中。

5.“Something like a hundred,” I said. “大约100度”，我说。

6.… and he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance. 为了一
点无关紧要的小事，他动不动就会哭起来。

Translation practice
在中国，喝茶时一种仪式（ritual）和一种精致品味（refined taste）的展示。

人们在饮茶的同时，也领略着（take delight in）品茶的情趣。

喝茶聊天是中国人最流行的消遣方式之一。

过去，人们一天的生活往往从进一家有名的茶馆开始。

中国的茶馆相当于法国的咖啡馆和英国的酒馆。

人们到这里不仅是为了喝茶，也是为了议论当地的新闻或就政治话题进行激烈的（furious）争论。

Note: Translation script (Unit 5)
1.凭着丰富的经验，他想自己有希望得到这个职位
With rich experience, he thought he would stand a chance of getting the post.
2. 为了不让别人胜过自己，他又试一次。

Not to be outdone, he tried again.
3. 史密斯游说其他委员投票赞成这项提案。

Smith worked on the other committee members to vote for the bill.
4.这个湖的水不是特别深，大约平均12米左右。

The lake is not particularly deep, averaging about 12m.
5.老板忍不住告诉了他真相。

The boss couldn’t hold back from telling him the truth。