Unit 15: Part A - Reading

The roles of women today Working in the offices Taking care of their families and doing the housework... Equal work opportunity nEg: Women and men have an equal work opportunity... To ar

Part A: reading – ( Period: 91)

Class: 12A8

Teacher: Bui Duc Tien

Unit 15: Women In Society

The roles

of women today

Working in the offices

Taking care of their families and doing the housework

Human civilization (n)

Eg: Human civilization has taken thousands of years

Homemaking (n)

Eg: Women are always busy with the homemaking

The age of enlightenment (n)

Eg: The 18 th century

is known as the age

of enlightenment

Childbearing (n)

Eg: She is at the age of childbearing.

Political philosopher (n)

Eg: He works as a Political philosopher.

Equal work opportunity (n)

Eg: Women and men have an equal work opportunity

Intellectual ability (n)

Eg: Women’s intellectual ability is similar to men’s

1 Human civilization

2 Homemaking

3 The age of

enlightenment

4 Childbearing

5 Political

philosopher

6 Equal work

opportunity

7 Intellectual ability

a Triết gia chính trị

b Sự Sinh đẻ

d Thời đại khai sáng

e cơ hội việc làm công bằng

f Khả năng trí tuệ

g Việc nhà

c Nền văn minh loài ng ời

A Working in

1 According to the text , what was the main role traditionally accorded to women?

C Taking care of the

house and family D Working in factories

2 Before the 18 th century what was the attitude of societies towards women’s intellectual ability?

A To free women

from housework

B To establish a friendly relationship between men and women

3 According to the text , what is the purpose of the struggle for women’s right?

C To bring equality

between men and women D To argue that women have better intellectual ability

A 18 th century

European people

4 What do “ these pioneer thinkers” at the end

of paragraph 2 refer to?

B 18th century European political philosophers

B 18th century D 18th century European

A The right to hold

property B The right to equal pay

5 Which of following is not mentioned in the last paragraph as one of women’s legal rights today?

B Equal

employment

opportunity rights

D The right to vote

A women’ s

intellectual ability B The age of enlightenment

6 Choose the best title for the passage

C Women’ s rights D Women’ s roles

Throughout much of the history of human civilization, deep-seated cultural beliefs

allowed women only limited roles in society.

Many people believed that women’s natural roles were as mothers and wives These

people considered women to be better suited for childbearing and homemaking rather

than for involvement in the public life of

business or politics Widespread doubt about women’s intellectual ability let most

societies to deny education, employment and many legal and political rights to women It was men who controlled most positions of

employment and power in society

The struggle for women s rights The struggle for women s rights ’ ’ – – the

rights that establish the same social,

economic, and political status for women

during a period known as the Age of

argue that all individuals, male and

female, were born with natural rights that

not be discriminated against on the basis

of their sex.

Today, although their status varies in different countries, women in most

parts of the world have gained

significant legal rights The most

right to have equal work

opportunities and pay to men, the

right to vote, and the right to formal education