Unit 15 Women in society Writing

In families of one or two children, men maintain approximately the same number of time doing housework as in childless households, but women’s hours of work at home rises to 50 per week [r]

Unit 15

Women in society

Lesson 4 Writing

Warm up

Make a statistic of these activities and the time that your mother and your father often do every day

Activities Your father Your mother Time

Cleaning the floor

Washing clothes

Tidying the kitchen

Ironing clothes

Repairing things

Doing the washing

Taking care of the

baby

Cooking meal

Going shopping

Total

Suggested answers

Activities Your father Your

es

es

Taking care of the

hours

Look at the chart and answer the questions



1.Who, in general does more home work ?

In general married women do more than men

2 Do married women have to do more or less

housework when they have more children ?

They have to do more housework

3 Do men have to do more or less housework when

they have more children ?

They have to do less housework

4.How many hours do married men and women without children spend on their housework per week ?

Married men and women without children spend 20 and

30 hours on their housework per week respectively

Look at the chart and answer the

questions

with one or two children to do their housework every week ?

 It takes 15 and 50 hours to do housework

every week

 6 what are the number of weekly housework hours that men and women with three or

children do respectively ?

 They are 10 and 55

 7 what do you think should be done to reduce the unequal distribution of the housework

hours per week between married men and

women ?

 Women should ask men to help sharing

housework every day./ Married men should

spend more time sharing the housework every day

*Look at the following table, work in groups to discuss the ways to describe the information in this

table

1998 2001 2004 2007

A Some kinds of charts.

+ You can describe it by a column chart:

Hours Housework hours per week

* Some useful expressions used in describing a

chart:

chart ,

speaking

Sample answer

 The column chart illustrates / shows the average hours of housework per week done by married women in comparison with married man

 As can be seen from the chart in families without children, women

tend to spend 30 hours per week doing housework whereas this

number is only 20 hours for men However, things are quite different when children enter the house In families of one or two children, men maintain approximately the same number of time doing housework as

in childless households, but women’s hours of work at home rises to

50 per week because it takes them more time to take care of their

children

 According to the chart with families have 3 or more children, women have to work harder They may spend 55 hours a week doing

housework while their husbands share with only 10

 In general the chart suggests that if women are to gain social equality, they should first be librated from familial responsibilities This can only be done if men lend more helpful hand to women in doing

domestic chores

3 Homework:

 Complete your writing perfectly at home

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