Unit 15. Women in society

A typical woman in a developing country spends …….…… collecting firewood daily.. ……… is the amount of time a typical African woman spends on cooking everyday... According to the passa

Put (√ ) in the right column of the table below to say who does these

activities everyday, your mother or your father.

1 Doing housework.

2 Looking after the children & the family.

3 Teaching the children at home.

4 Working at offices or in the fields.

“Có công mài sắt , có ngày lên kim” is a Vietnamese saying.

1 Saying (n)

2 Firewood (n) ['faiəwud] Củi đun

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

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

II WHILE-LISTENING:

Task1: Listen to the passage and choose the best answer

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

spends on cooking everyday.

A 1 hour B 2 hours C 3 hours

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

village woman begin?

6 What time does it finish?

Task2 :

Now let’s play our

game!

“HELP YOUR PARENTS WITH SOME WORK”

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

Choose one of the activities below to help your parents.

Emptying garbage

Cooking

Washing clothes Teaching the sister

Working in the field Cleaning the floor

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

blank with the missing word(s).

In parts of Africa, this is a typical day for a village woman At 4.45 am, she gets up,

washes,

and eats It takes her half an hour to walk

to the fields, and she works there until 3.00

pm She spends the next hour and a half

preparing food to cook Then she collects

water for another hour From 6.30 to 8.30

she cooks After dinner, she spends an hour

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:

- 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?

- 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.

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 work?

They earn nothing for doing their domestic

work.

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.