unit 15- listening

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

Welcome to our lesson!

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.

Thursday March 31st, 2011

I.PRE-Listening: VOCABULARY

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

1 Saying (n) ['seiiη] Tục ngữ,châm ngôn

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'k lt∫ərəl]ʌ Thuộc nhà nông

7 To hold up (r) ['hould p]ʌ Chiếm

CHECKING VOCABULARY:

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

QUESTION 1

QUESTION 3

QUESTION 2

QUESTION 6 QUESTION 5

QUESTION 4

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 washing the dishes She then goes

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.

3 How much food do women in

developing countries produce?

They produce more than half of the 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.