Acknowledgement The Project Comprises The Power Point Presentations

Acknowledgement • The Project Comprises The Power. Point Presentations Which Are Presented To The Students, The Worksheets Uploaded On The Contributors Websites And The Revision Units.

The Names Of The Teachers Who Collaborated In The Project Are As Follows According To Alphabetical Order As Per First Name: 1 Ms. Amany Abuliel 9 Ms. Jehan jahin 2 Ms. Amal Shousha 10 Ms. Marwa Eldeeb 3 Ms. Dahlia Yuosri 11 Ms. Nahed Moussa 4 Ms. Fatima Atteya 12 Ms. Rabab Gabr 5 Ms. Gehan Ismail 13 Ms. Ragia Magdeldin 6 Ms. Hanan Orabi 14 Ms. Sherine Eldeeb 7 Ms. Heba Tantawy 15 Ms. Zainab Hefnawy 8 Ms. Ingie Zakaria

North Star Reading and writing Basic/Low Intermediate External Program, Spring Semester, 2010.

Unit 6, women’s work?

Approaching The Topic Predicting, Pg. 101 v Look at the ads for cleaning products from a magazine for women in the 1950 s. 1. What are the women in the ads doing? 2. How do you think they feel? Why? 3. Do you think their smile is genuine? Why?

About the unit “Women’s work? ” • This unit is about housework and how it is assigned for women to do. It also discusses the difference between who did chores in the past and who does them nowadays. It also implies the idea that men and women should share housework. • The unit introduces a poem, which gives a sarcastic overview of some TV ads in which producers of some cleaning products try to make housework look like an easy and funny job, just to sell their products, while it never is.

Vocabulary for comprehension, pg. 103 • Check your knowledge by looking at these cleaning products and match each of them to its use.

Vocabulary for comprehension • • • Detergent (n. ) Bleach (v. /n. ) Polish (v. /n. ) Mop (v. /n. ) Scour (v. /n. ) Skillet (n. ) Brand (n. ) Wink (v. /n. ) Oven (n. ) Carpet (v. /n. )

Reading one: Housework • Reading one is a poem, by Sheldon Harnick, which discusses some TV commercials about cleaning products in a derisive way. It shows how the advertisers of these ads try to convince the viewers that house work, which is normally hard labor, can be a pleasant and enjoyable task by using these products.

Reading 1: Housework. Pg. 104

Reading 1 (cont…): Housework. Pg. 105

Reading 1 (cont…) : Housework. Pg. 105

Reading For Main Ideas. Pg. 106 Check (√) the two main ideas in the poem: ___ 1. TV commercials (advertisements on TV) give us good information about which soaps and detergents are best. ___ 2. Men and women should share housework. ___ 3. Children shouldn’t watch TV because there are too many commercials. ___ 4. Housework isn’t really too much fun.

Reading For Details. Pg. 106 Now go to your book and answer the questions about some details in the reading. .

Reacting to the reading. Pg. 107 • Read each statement. Write (Ad) if you think the statement is something that TV advertisers want us to think. Write (Poet) if you think the statement is something that the poet want us to think. ____ 1. Housework is fun when you have the best detergent. ____ 2. Housework is never fun. ____ 3. Most women like doing housework. ____ 4. Some soap and detergents are better than others. ____ 5. Men should do housework, too. ____ 6. Husbands and wives should share housework if they want to be happy. ____ 7. It’s important to do housework. ____ 8. Housework is women’s work. ____ 9. The ladies on TV ads are the only people who smile while they do the housework. ____ 10. The ladies on TV are smiling because they are using wonderful cleaning products.