Welcome BA (Hons.), English MA in Applied

Transcript:Welcome BA (Hons.), English MA in Applied:
Welcome BA (Hons.), English MA in Applied Linguistic and ELT University of Dhaka Email: ritasarker23@gmail.com Rita Sarker Lecturer in English Azimpur Govt. Girls’ School and College Introducing the lesson Class: XI - XII Sub: English(First paper) Unit -10 Lesson: 4 ( 1st half of the lesson) Date: August 2020 Time- Look at the pictures and try to tell about them spectac-les old man Pictures dusty cloth Very weak and feeble man and woman crossing the bridge bridge Now lets write about the pictures Lesson Declaration “The Old Man at the Bridge” by Ernest Hemingway 1st half of the story Learning Outcomes By the end of the lesson students will be able to - tell about Earnest Hemingway tell the meaning of some unknown words choose the best answer from the alternative answer some questions from the short story “The Old man at the Bridge” FACTS NAME : Ernest Hemingway Birth date and place: July 21, 1899, Oak Park,Illinois USA Date Of Death and place: July 2, 1961 Ketchum, Idaho Education: Oak Park and River Forest High School Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction. Ernest Hemingway served in World War I and worked in journalism before publishing his story collection In Our Time. He was renowned for novels like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. In 1954, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize. He committed suicide on July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho. A brief introduction to Earnest Hemingway “Old Man at the Bridge” was inspired by Hemingway’s travels as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. In fact, the story was originally composed as a news dispatch from the Amposta Bridge over the Ebro River on Easter Sunday in 1938 as the Fascists were set to overrun the region. Hemingway was writing for the North American Newspaper Association but decided to submit this snippet of writing as a short story to a magazine instead of as a journalistic article, which accounts, to a certain extent, for its short length. Here in this story we have two main characters one is the old man who is the heroic fatalist or fatalistic hero of the story,