Unit 15. Women in society

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Put ( ) in the right column of the table below to say who does these
activities everyday, your mother or your father.
Activities
1. Doing housework.
2. Looking after the children & the family.
3. Teaching the children at home.
4. Working at offices or in the fields.

mother

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father

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VOCABULARY
1.
(n)
“CóSaying

công mài
sắt , có ngày lên kim” is a Tục
Vietnamese
saying.
ngữ,châm
ngôn
['seiiη]
Củi đun
2. Firewood
(n) ['faiəwud]
3. Africa (n) ['æfrikə]

Châu Phi

4. Domestic (a) [də'mestik]

Trong nhà, trong gia đình

5. Typical (a) ['tipikl]

Tiêu biểu, điển hình

6. Agricultural (a) [,ægri'kʌlt∫ərəl] Thuộc nhà nông
7. To hold up (v) ['hould
ʌp]
8. Two-thirds = 2/3
9. Three-fourths
10. Percent (n)
[pə'sent]

Chiếm

= 3/4
Phần trăm


Listen to the these words and then put them into the
correct order you hear.

Three-fourths

1

Saying

2

hold up

3

Firewood

4

Agricultural

5

domestic

6

Typical

7

Two-thirds

8


Task1:
Listen to the passage and choose the best answer
II. WHILE-LISTENING:
1, …………. of all working hours, the work is done
by women.
A. Nearly 50 percent
B. Nearly two-thirds
C. Nearly three- fourths
2. The average woman earns………… the average
man.
A. more than
B. the same as
C. less than
3. In Africa, ………. of the farm work is done by
men.
A. 80 percent B. 50 percent
C. 20 percent
4. A typical woman in a developing country spends

…….…… collecting firewood daily.
A. 1 hour
B. 2 hours
C. 3 hours
5. ……… is the amount of time a typical African
woman


Task2 :
Listen again then answer the following
questions.

1. According to the passage, what percentage
of all
the world’s jobs do women hold?
2. What do they earn for doing their domestic
work?
3. How much food do women in developing
countries
produce?
4. How much farm work do African women do?
5. What time does a typical day for an African


Now let’s play our
game!
“HELP YOUR PARENTS WITH SOME WORK”


Choose one of the activities below to help your parents.

Teaching
QUESTION
the sister
1

Emptying garbage
QUESTION
5

Washing clothes
QUESTION
3
QUESTION
Cooking 6

Working in the
QUESTION
4 field

Cleaning
QUESTION
the floor
2

Rules: There are 6 activities containing 6 questions. If you choose an
activity in red and give the correct answer, you will get mark 10.


Task 3: Listen to the passage again, then fill in each

blank with the missing word(s).

In parts of Africa, this is a(1)…
typical day for a
village woman. At 4.45 am, she gets up,
washes,
(2)…
and eats. It takes her half an(3)…
hour to walk
to the fields, and she works there(4)…
until 3.00
pm. She spends the next hour and a half
preparing food to cook. Then she collects
water for another hour. From
to 8.30
(5)6.30
…
she cooks. After
(6)…dinner, she spends an hour
washing the dishes. She then goes to bed
at 9.30 pm.


III. POST-LISTENING:
Does your mother do more or less work every day
in comparison with that of an African woman in the
listening passage? Talk about her typical day.

Suggestions:
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What time/get up?
What time/go to work and finish work?
Whether she does housework? If yes, what?
Whether she has time for entertainment?
What time/ go to bed?


HOMEWORK:
- Learn by heart all the new words.
- In not more than 100 words write
a passage about a working day
of your mother.
- Prepare the “writing” lesson.



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1. According to the passage, what
percentage of all the world’s jobs do
women hold?

- 40 %.


2. What do they earn for doing their domestic wor
They earn nothing for doing their domestic
work.

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3. How much food do women
in
developing countries
They
produce more than half of the
produce?
food.


4. How much farm work do African women do?

- 80 %.


5. What time does a typical day
for an African village woman begin?
- At 4.45 am.


6. What time does it finish?
- At 9.30 pm.


Firewood


Where can children like these be seen ?

In some parts of Africa.