Unit 15 - Reading EL12NC

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Game: Quiz

1 What is the country that used

to have the famous Berlin Wall?

 Germany

2 Who is the first and only woman who won two Nobel prizes?

 Marie Curie

3 What is the island country whose capital city is Manila?

 The Philippines

4 Who was the Vietnamese women who rode an elephant and led the

people to fight against Ngo

invaders?

 The Trung sisters

5 What do Germany and the Philippines have in common?

 Both have women leaders

Unit 15: Women in Society

Lesson: Reading

Activity 1: Give the name of the

people in pictures

Who is he?

 Uncle Ho

Who is she?

 Trieu vy She is an actress

Who is she?

F Sally Ride

She was born in 1951 she is an American

female

Who is she?

 Helen Keller She was born in 1880 and died

in 1968 She is an US lecturer and author; blind

and deaf from infancy

Who are they?

 The Trung sisters They are Vietnamese heroines who defeated the Chinese invaders, and Trung Nu Vuong reigned the country from

40 to 43

Who is she?

 Margaret Thatcher She was born in 1925 She is British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990

Who is she?

 Marie Curie She was born in 1867 and died in

1934 She is a Polish physicists and chemist in France; codiscoverer of radium (1898) Her

husband, Pierre Curie (1859-1906) He is a

French physicist and chemist; codiscoverer of

radium

Who is she?

 Mary Kingsley (1862 – 1900) She is a an

explorer and anthropologist

New words:

• Confine / kən'fain / ( (v): giam cầm, hạn chế

• Reserve / ri'zə:v /(v): để dành

• Access / 'ỉkses /(n): lối vào, cơ hội tiếp cận

• Burden / 'bə:dn / (n): gánh nặng

 Burden sb with sth (v)

• Overlook /,ouvə'luk / (v): bỏ qua, lờ đi

• Vast / v :stɑ / (a): mênh mông, bao la

Activity 2: Guessing the meaning of

words from the context

1 Being force to do something

Exercising Denying

Barred

• Compel / kəm'pel / (v): bắt buộc

• Catch on / kỉt∫ /(v): trở nên phổ biến

• Exercise / 'eksəsaiz /(v): vận dụng, dùng tới

• Deny / di'nai /(v): phủ nhận

• Bar / b :ɑ /(v): ngăn cấm

Activity 3: True – False statements

1 In medieval Europe, women were allowed to

participate in public life

2 In Germany, a husband could sell his wife

3 At the end of the 19th century, women in the

US didn’t have the right to own property

4 The “Women’s Liberation Movement” brought

freedom to women

5 Women have been a great comfort to men

Activity 3: True – False statements

1 In medieval Europe, women were allowed to

participate in public life

T F

Activity 3: True – False statements

2 In Germany, a husband could sell his wife

T F

Activity 3: True – False statements

3 At the end of the 19th century, women in the US

didn’t have the right to own property

Activity 3: True – False statements

4 The “Women’s Liberation Movement” brought freedom to women T F

Activity 3: True – False statements

5 Women have been a great comfort to men