Unit 15. Women in society

Play the crossword puzzle:

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3. The 22 SEA …. were held in Vietnam.
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1. The first form of synchronized swimming.

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2. One of the major disasters.
4. The ….. Cross is an international humanitarian agency.
5. A ….. is a story long enough to fill a complete book in
which the characters and events are usually imaginary.


LOOK AT THESE PICTURES THEN
Truong My
Trung sisters
Margaret
GIVE
THE NAME
OF EACH AWOMAN
Hoa
Thatcher
Heroines
A
vice president
Prime
Minister
AND TELL WHO SHE WAS.

Marie Curie
A scientist

Sally Ride
An astronaut

Elizabeth II
The Queen

Look at the pictures and answer the
questions

Working on
computer

Helping children
study

Going to the
supermarket

Playing with
children

Serving meals

Tidying her house

1 . How many roles does this woman have ?
2. Is her life typical of a Vietnamese woman’s life ? Why / why not ?


Vocabulary:

Match the words and

their meaning

1.Civilization (n)
2.Childbearing (n)
3.Deep-seated
(adj)
4.Involvement
(n)
5.Intellectual (adj)
6.Discriminate (v)
7.To advocate (V)

a. To support something
publicly
b. The act of taking part in
something
c. A society, its culture and its
way of life during a particular
period of time
d. To treat one person/group
worse than others in an unfair
way
e. (of feeling and belief ) very
fixed and strong, difficult to
change or to destroy
f. mental
g. The process of giving birth
to children

Human civilization


II-WHILE YOU READ:
Task 1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents
to the following words and phrases
Nền văn minh nhân loại
1. Human civilization………………………………………
Việc sinh con
2. Childbearing……………………………………
Sự tham gia
3. Involvement
…………………………………
Thời kì khai sáng
4. Age of enlightenment………………………………
Những
niềm tin ăn sâu vào tiềm thức
5.deep-seated cultural beliefs
………………..
………………………..
Việc chăm sóc gia đình
6. Homemaking………………………………………………
Năng lực trí tuệ
7. Intellectual ability…………………………………
Cơ hội việc làm bình đẳng
8.Equal work opportunity………………………………………


Task 2: Choose the best option A, B, C or
D to answer the following question

1. According to the text , what was the main role traditionally
accorded to women?
A. Working in education
B. Building houses
C. Taking care of the house and family
D. Working in factories
2. Before the 18th century, what was the attitude of societies towards
women’s intellectual ability ?
A. Respectful B. Supportive C. Resentful D. Disbelieving
3. According to the text ,what is the purpose of the struggle for
women’s rights?
A. To free women from housework
B. To establish a friendly relationship between men and women
C. To bring equality between men and women
D. To argue that women have better intellectual ability
4. What do “ these pioneer thinkers” at the end of paragraph 2 refer
to?
A. 18th century European people
B.18th century European political
philosophers
C. 18th century European women
D.18th century European politicians
5. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the last paragraph as
one of women’s legal rights today ?
A. The right to hold property
B. The right to equal pay
C. Equal employment opportunity rights D. The right to vote


Task 3: True or False

sentences
1. In the old days, women couldn’t work in
society because they weren’t intelligent
2. The struggle for women’s rights started in
the 19th century
3. According the text, Women should be
treated equally as men
4. Deep-seated cultural beliefs about
women’s roles changed after the
struggle for women’s rights


1. In the old days, women couldn’t work in
society because they weren’t intelligent
False
because of widespread doubt about their
intellectual ability.
2. The struggle for women’s rights started in the
19th century
False
18th century
3. According the text, Women should be treated
equally as men
True
4. Deep-seated cultural beliefs about women’s
roles changed after the struggle for women’s rights
True


Task 4: Choose the best title for the

passage
A. Women’s Intellectual Ability
B. The Age of Enlightenment
C.
Women’s rights
rights
C. Women’s
D. Women’s Role in Education


III. After you read:
Work in pairs. Summarize the reading passage by
filling in the gaps with the given words.
struggl
18th
educatio
equal
e
n
philosopher
widesprea
women
vote
s
d
In the past, (1)…..….. were restricted to the roles of
mothers and wives due to (2)…….……… doubt about
their intellectual ability. The (3)..………… for women’s
rights began in the(4).…..…… century as European
political (5)....…………….. believed that women should

be treated equally. Women now enjoy important legal
rights such as (6)……..…..work and pay right, the right
to (7)………..… and to gain formal (8)………….…


• Prepare Speaking lesson



III- AFTER YOU READ:
Consolidation:

Women in the
past

roles

wives

mother
s

Women’s
liberation

struggl
e
InWhen?
the 18
century

For
Women’s
what?
right

Women
Today
Significan
t legal
rights
-Equal employment
opportunity rights
-The right to equal pay
-The right to vote
-The right to formal
education


Choose the best option (A, B, C or D) to complete the following
sentences:
1. You are coughing so much. You should……………smoking.
A. look up
B. take off
D. put on
C. give up
2. She is a doctor. She…………………… the sick people.
C. turns on
D. takes care of
B. takes

A. goes on
off
3. If you don’t know the meaning of this word, …………it in the dictionary.
B. look after C. look down D. look at
A. look up
4. Come in.…………., please.
C. walk down D. turn down
A.sit down
B. lay
down
5. It’s so dark here. Could you.………... the light, please?
C. turn up
A. turn off
D. turn
B.turn on
round