Unit 15 Women in society

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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 Hoa
Trung sisters
Margaret Thatcher
GIVE
THE NAMEHeroines
OF EACH WOMAN
A vice
president
A 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 educationB. 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
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.
struggle
18th
education
equal
philosophers
women
widespread
vote
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

mothers

Women’s liberation

struggle

InWhen?
the 18

century

For
Women’s
what?
right

Women Today
Significant
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 off
A. goes on

3. If you don’t know the meaning of this word, …………it in the dictionary.
B. look after C. look down
A. look up
D. look at
4. Come in.…………., please.
A.sit down
B. lay down

C. walk down

D. turn down

5. It’s so dark here. Could you.………... the light, please?
C. turn up
A. turn off
D. turn round
B. turn on