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1. Warm-up Questions

2. An English Song — Sleeping Child

3. Background Information

4. Topic-related Prediction

5. Discussion

Ernest Hemingway

Lost Generation

Howard Pyle

Thermometers

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Topic-related Prediction

Look at the lines above the title carefully. Who do you think might be the main character in this text? And do you think to wait for a whole day is really a torture? What might be waited for?

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Discussion

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?

1. Part Division of the Text

2. Scanning

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3. Style Analysis

4. Supply the Missing Information

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Part Division of the Text

Main IdeasParagraphsParts

1 1 ~ 13

2 14 ~ 25

3 26 ~ 30

The little boy’s parents called in a doctor.

Assured by the doctor, his father asked him to relax, but the boy was holding tight onto himself about something.

After his return from the hunting, the boy’s father found the boy still lying in bed, gazing at the foot of the bed.

4 31 ~ 57 Admitting he had thought he was going to die, the boy relaxed slowly after his father’s explanation.

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Scanning

1. Scan the text and find the places where there are changes of places. What are implied by the changes?

Sentences Implication

Misunderstanding was gradually caused.

He came into the room…But when I came downstairs…When the doctor came…Downstairs, the doctor…Back in the room……I went out for a while…At the house…I went up to him…

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2. Find the places where there are misunderstandings between the Father and Son, then explain what they each refer to.

Paragraphs and sentences Explanation

Para. 18-19 “How do you feel, Schatz?” I asked him. “Just the same, so far,” he said.

Para. 23-25“You don’t have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you.” “It doesn’t bother me.” “No, I mean you don’t have to stay if it’s going to bother you.”

The Father refers to the Son’s health while the Son thinks he’s still alive up to now though he’s going to die.

“It” for the Father means “illness” while for the Son it means “death. ”

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Paragraphs and sentences Explanation

Para. 37-38“It’s nothing to worry about.” “I don’t worry,” he said, “but I can’t keep from thinking.”

The Father means “worry about his temperature”, while Son means “think about his death”. When the Father uses this phrase, he just wants the Son to become less upset. However, when Son speaks this sentence, he means he’ll be relaxed in face of the death.

Para. 39-40“Don’t think,” I said, “Just take it easy.” “I’m taking it easy.”

“It” for the Father means “illness” while for the Son it means “death. ”

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Style Analysis

Read the text carefully and find evidence which show the author’s writing style as listed in the left column.

Theme: Death & Courage

Characters: Men of Action

Broad Landscape

a nine-year-old boy who spent a day thinking about his death andremained calm

“How do you feel, Schatz?”“Just the same, so far.”“It does not bother me.”“Your temperature is all right,”I said. “It’s nothing to worry about.” “I don’t worry…”

the scene of the father’s hunting

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the Loneliness of Individual

Economical and Effective Dialogue

Short Sentences, Simple Words

The boy insisted on staying awake and refused to let anyone go into his room.

“What’s the matter, Schatz?”“I’ve got a headache.”“You’d better go back to bed.”“No, I’m all right.”

“You can’t come in,” he said.“You mustn’t get what I have.”

1. The boy came into the room to close the window and his father found him .2. Some medicine should be taken to overcome an acid condition because .3. The father read some stories to the boy while he was lying in bed but he .4. The father thought his son was a little lightheaded because he insisted on .

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shivering with a white face and walking slowly______________________________________

Supply the Missing Information

Read the text carefully and supply the missing information to complete the following sentences.

the germs of influenza can only exist in that condition___________________________________________

seemed very detached from what was going on______________________________________

staying awake and asked his father to leave____________________________________

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5. It was a cold winter day, the father went hunting outside. He took for a walk and flushed under a high clay bank with .6. The father went back home and found his son in .7. The father sat down and began to read stories again but the boy suddenly asked him , the father just felt very puzzled.8. After the father knew the reasons, he explained to the boy that a fever of 102 degrees would not make him die because . And he gave an example. . Then the boy became .

a young Irish setter

________________ a covey of quail ______________overhanging brush_______________

exactly the position he had left him, staring still

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how long it would be before he would die_________________________________

there were different thermometers____________________________It was like miles and kilometers_________________________

relaxed________

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The small boy’s illness seemed not too serious. Yet he was clearly very worried about something. Whatever was it?

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“Oh, yes, I am. I heard him say a hundred and two.”

“People don’t die with a fever of one hundred and two. That’s a silly way to talk.”

“I know they do. At school in France the boys told me you can’t live with forty-four degrees. I’ve got a hundred and two.”

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He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o’clock in the morning.“You poor Schatz,” I said. “Poor old Schatz. It’s like miles and kilometers. You

aren’t going to die. That’s a different thermometer. On that thermometer thirty-seven is normal. On this kind it’s ninety-eight.”

“Are you sure?”“Absolutely,” I said. “It’s like miles and kilometers. You know, like how many

kilometers we make when we do seventy miles in the car?”

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“Oh,” he said.But his gaze at the foot of the bed relaxed slowly.

The hold over himself relaxed too, finally, and the next day it was very slack and he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance.

But when I came downstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years. When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever.

He came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to move.

“What’s the matter, Schatz?”“I’ve got a headache.”“You better go back to bed.”“No. I’m all right.”“You go to bed. I’ll see you when I’m dressed.”

A Day’s WaitErnest Hemingway

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SentenceSentence WordWord

1. What can we infer from this sentence?

The family in the story has the habit of sleeping with the windows open, even in winter. The boy has a headache. He guesses he has got a cold, so he goes to his parents’ room to close the windows because he doesn’t want his parents to catch cold as he does.

2. Please use an adjective to describe the boy.

Considerate