Unit 15 women in society (d writing)

Answer the following questions:

1, How many children does your mother have?
Two children.

2, Who does more housework in your family?
3, How many hours does she spend on her
My mother.
housework per week?

It’s about ………….


Make a statistic of these activities and the time that your mother
and your father often do per week.

Activities
Cleaning the floor
Washing clothes
Tidying the kitchen
Ironing clothes
Repairing things
Doing the washing
Taking care of the baby
Cooking meals
Going shopping

Total

Your father - Time

Your mother -Time


Make a statistic of these activities and the time that A’s mother
and A’s father often do per week.

Activities

A’s father - Time

A’s mother -Time

Cleaning the floor

× - 7 hours

Washing clothes

× - 7 hours

Tidying the kitchen

× - 6 hours

Ironing clothes

× - 2 hours

Repairing things

× - 5 hours
× - 3 hours

Doing the washing
Taking care of the baby

× - 10 hours

× - 15 hours

Cooking meals

× - 7 hours

Going shopping

× - 3 hours

Total

15 hours / a week

50 hours/ a week


It’s a chart.

Hours

Housework hours per week


Unit 15

Women in society
Lesson 4

Writing


Look at the chart then do the tasks
that follow:
Hours
Housework hours per
week


TASK 1: Choose the best answer to complete the following sentences

1, The column chart …. the average hours of housework per week done by married
women in comparison with married man.
A. illustrates
B. shows C. describes
D. All areDcorrect
2, Women spend …… per week doing housework and this number is only ….. for men
when they have no children.
A 30/20
A.
B. 50/15

C. 55/10 D. 50/50
3, In families of one or two children, the amount of time given to housework by men is
just ….., but women’s hours of work at rises to ….. per week.
CC. 15/50 D. 50/55
A. 30/20
B. 50/15
4. They spend ……. a week doing housework while their husbands share with only ……….
When they have 3 or more children.
C
A. 30/20
B. 50/15
C. 55/10 D. 50/55
5. The chart suggests that they should first be… from familiar responsibilities.
BB. liberated
A. Liberate
C. liberating
D. liberation


Look at the chart then do the task that
follow:
Hours
Housework hours per
week


TASK 2: Look at the chart and answer the questions
1.Who, in general, does more housework ?
• In general, married women do more housework than men do.
2. Do married women have to do more or less housework when they

have more children ?
. They have to do more housework when they have more children.
3. Do married men have to do more or less housework when they have
more children ?
• They have to do less housework when they have more children.
4.How many hours do married men and women without children spend
on their housework per week ?
• Married men and women without children spend 20 and 30 hours on
their housework per week respectively.


TASK 2: Look at the chart and answer the questions
5. How much time does it take men and women with one or two children
to do their housework every week ?
• It takes 15 and 50 hours to do housework every week .
6. what are the numbers of weekly housework hours that men and
women with three or more children do respectively ?
• They are 10 and 55.
7. what do you think should be done to reduce the unequal distribution of
housework hours per week between married men and women ?
. Married men should spend more time sharing the housework with their
wives.


TASK 3: Write a report describing the information in the column chart with the
given words

• The column chart/ the average hours/ housework
per week done by married women/ comparison with married man.
• Women/ spend/30 hours per week /do/ housework/ this number/ be/

20 hours for men when they have no children.
•

In families/ one or two children, the amount of time/ give/ housework
by men/ be just 15 hours/ women’s hours of work at home rises/ 50
hours per week.

• They spend 55 hours a week/ do/ housework/ their husbands share /
with only 10 hours/ they have 3 or more children.
• the chart /suggest/ if women are/ gain social equality, they should first/
liberate/ from familiar responsibilities. This can only be done if men lend
more helpful hand to women/ do/ domestic chores.


Sample writing
* The column chart illustrates/ shows/describes the average hours of
housework per week done by married women in comparison with married
man.
* We can see from the chart, women spend 30 hours per week doing
housework while this number is 20 for men when they have no children.
* In families of one or two children, the amount of time given to
housework by men is just 15 hours but women’s hours of work at home
rises to 50 hours per week.
* They spend 55 hours a week doing housework. In contrast, their
husbands share fewer hours with only 10 hours when they have 3 or more
children.
* In general, the chart suggests if women are to gain social equality, they
should first be liberated from familiar responsibilities. This can only be
done if men lend more helpful hand to women in doing domestic chores.

REMEMBER

*

Some useful expressions used in
describing a chart:
Introduction:
The chart shows / describes /illustrates…
* Body:
As can be seen from the data in the chart ,...
We can see from the chart...
According to the chart,...
From the chart, it can be seen that…
In contrast, ...
While, but …..
Fewer, less… than, more …than
Rise, decrease, fall, drop…..
* Conclusion:
In general, ... / To sum up, ……


Some kinds of charts.

When children enter the household,
the amount of time to housework by
women is …
increasing/ more and more.

Some kinds of charts

Men are found to work even …..
fewer
hours around the house than before the
appearance of children.


Homework:
• Complete your writing perfectly at home.
• Prepare language focus.


The end