Part III Extended Activities Book 3 Unit 8
Part III Extended Activities Book 3 -Unit 8
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Women’s low social position is a serious problem. It is evident in almost every aspect of social life. Even our language often gives us the false impression that women simply don’t exist. For example, once the word man meant person or human being. But the word man has gradually become more specific in meaning and is now a synonym for an adult male human being only. In the words of a popular dictionary for children, a boy grows up to be a man. Father and Uncle George are both men. This is the meaning that we understand because we hear the word man used in everyday speech in this way from childhood. Later we learn that the word man has another meaning, but we do not accept it with the same certainty. Studies of college students and school children show that phrases like economic man and political Script man or man is a dreamer create an image of males only, not females or males and females together. Furthermore, we have become aware that conventional English usage often minimizes the achievements, the contributions and sometimes the very presence of women. Book 3 -Unit 8
When Grateful Begins to Grate o o o 1. 2. grateful (a. 感激的) grate (v. 产生不满情绪) alliteration Answer the following questions: Was the woman well off in terms of her family life? What did the wife actually want from her family life? Book 3 -Unit 8
1. Possible list of details - An open-minded husband who let her go out to work in the 60 s 2. - An understanding and helpful husband who Feeding the baby at night Taking charge of the children when his wife was sick Driving the car for the carpool Making dinner when the wife was late home Taking requests from the wife with a smile She wanted to have a shared life, not manage the household alone. Book 3 -Unit 8
True or False Try to finish the exercise on page 116, and check your answers. 1. T 6. F 2. F 7. F 3. NM 8. T 4. F 9. T 5. T 10. T Book 3 -Unit 8
Further Discussion 1. Work out a new ending for the story. It begins like this: Next day after children went to bed… Book 3 -Unit 8
o o the wife has husband a Ph. D degree, but the 2. If. What should and wife do husband if they has only Bachelor degree from community college: wanta to treat each other asaequals? If the husband is a CEO of a multinational company, but the wife is a worker in a shoe company: Hints The husband earns much less than the wife does: The grandparents on the husband’s side wish to have a grandson in order to continue the family line, but the family has had three daughters in a row: Book 3 -Unit 8
Grammar: Object/object complement Vocabulary: Gender neutral words Vocabulary: Neutral forms of both sexes Book 3 -Unit 8
Object/Object Complement Study the following sentences. o We consider him a good doctor. So he is a good doctor. o The jury found him guilty. So he is guilty. Book 3 -Unit 8
a. Complete the following sentences using the words or phrases in the box. (page 117) best writer of the year a better place Charlie chairman husband wife 1. We all promise to do our best to make this world a______. better place chairman 2. He is a liar. Why should we elect him _____. best writer of the year 3. The committee nominated her __________. husband wife 4. I now pronounce you ________. 5. They liked the Mexican pot so much that they named it Charlie _____. Book 3 -Unit 8
b. Complete the following sentences with the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. (page 117) 1. Thegoing bus is stuck in the mud. We have to give it a push to start it ______. 2. We have already pushed it. Still, we can’t get the bus ______. started 3. There must be someone inside. I can hear people ______. talking 4. Poor old Bill had his bike ______ yesterday. He left it ______ stolen unlocked when he went into the library. 5. The father put all his hopes on the son and left the talents of the daughters ______. unattended to 6. Mr. Murphy came all over funny. So he went to the factory clinic and had his head _____. examined Book 3 -Unit 8
7. In order to find other people involved in the criminal organisation, the police wanted to catch the suspects ______. alive 8. You don’t need to check the dictionary every time you come unfamiliar to you. across a word ____ 9. Smelling gas flowing out of the house, neighbours broke in, only to discover him already ______. dead 10. The young man apologised, “I’m sorry to have kept you awake ______. lying on the floor. 11. Are these your gloves? I found them _____ 12. The judge found him not guilty and set him ______. free Book 3 -Unit 8
Vocabulary Work: Gender Neutral Words a. Look at the following rather sexist advertisement for an airline. Change the wording to make it more neutral. (page 118) Now! Eagle Airlines offers even more to the businessman who needs comfort Let us fly to your destination in first-class comfort, looked after by the best-trained air hostesses in the world. Any businessman knows that he must arrive fresh and ready for work no matter how long the journey. With Eagle Diplomat-Class you can do just that. And, what’s more, your wife can travel with you on all intercontinental flights for only 25% of the normal fare! Your secretary can book you on any flights 24 hours a day on 0555 -3456789. All she has to do is lift the phone. Book 3 -Unit 8
Now! Eagle Airlines offers even more to the businessman who needs comfort Let us fly to your destination in first-class comfort, looked after by the best-trained cabin attendants (or cabin staff) in the world. Any business person knows that they (or he or she) must arrive fresh and ready for work no matter how long the journey. With Eagle Diplomat-Class you can do just that. And, what’s more, your partner/ spouse can travel with you on all intercontinental flights for only 25% of the normal fare! Your secretary can book you on any flights 24 hours a day on 0555 -3456789. All he or she has to do is lift the phone. Book 3 -Unit 8
b. Make the following letter more gender-neutral. (page 118) The manager Frenstowe Engineering Ltd. 22/11/98 Dear or Madam, Dear. Sir, I am a housewife aged 32 and am seeking employment. I am aged 32, married, I saw your advertisement for part-time workers in The Globe last week. However, your 24 -hour answering unstaffed when I tried it. Could service seemed to be unmanned you please send me application forms by post? Thank you. Yours sincerely, (Ms. ) Sally Hewings (Mrs. ) Book 3 -Unit 8
Reference Materials for Neutral Forms of Both Sexes Neutral Traditional Terms Current Acceptable/ Fashionable Terms Chair(person) Chairman Chairwoman (Chair or Chairman is still used – never Chairwoman) Spokesperson Spokesman Spokeswoman (Only Spokesperson is used now) Police officer Policeman Policewoman - Postman Post-woman (In the UK Postman is still used for all) Book 3 -Unit 8
Neutral Traditional Terms Current Acceptable/ Fashionable Terms Mariner Fisherman (Mariner is used to describe anyone who works at sea, and could be an alternative. ) Bartender Barman Barmaid Businessperson Businessman Businesswoman Fire-fighter Fireman (Most firemen are still firemen due to the physical strength needed. Flight-attendant Stewardess/air hostess Head (teacher) Headmaster Headmistress Book 3 -Unit 8
Book 3 -Unit 8
Key to Translation (page 119) 1. I prefer spring to autumn though I love both seasons. 2. I believe that electric cars will one day supplant petroldriven ones. 3. They warned him of the danger of climbing the Himalayas, but he wouldn’t listen. 4. The teacher told his students that their future prospects hinged on their education. 5. Everybody thinks that she deserved Best Actress award of the Year. Book 3 -Unit 8
6. Every time the girl came across a problem, she would turn to her mother for a solution, rather than trying to solve it herself. 7. After husband died, she continued to nurture her three daughters. 8. It seems that a lot of people learn English less as a practical language than for its grammar. Book 3 -Unit 8
Ask questions about the underlined parts in Section 6 on page 119. 1. Why did farmers prefer boys over girls? 2. What kind of person was Branwell? 3. In what way are cultural preferences and bad habits alike? 4. What did the three selfless sisters do in support of their brother? 5. What kind of writings are the novels of the three sisters: Are they more like fiction or autobiography? 6. What would the father do were he alive today? Reference Answers Book 3 -Unit 8
p Study the structure of Genius Sacrificed for Failure. p Write a short essay on one of the following two topics 1. Children’s creativity will be murdered by a teacher’s or by parental over-protection. 2. Great writers are not trained, but grow out of the school of hard knocks. Book 3 -Unit 8
p Answer the following questions according to the cultural information. 1. Does the monarch have real power in managing the country? 2. Why does the monarch never enter the House of Commons? Reference Answers Book 3 -Unit 8 B 3 -Unit 8
Reference Answers 1. No, nowadays the monarch is only a symbolic head of the country. This is known as a constitutional monarchy. In the past the monarch used to hold absolute power. In some countries the monarchy still does have absolute power, such as Swaziland the Vatican City. 2. One of the kings in English history, King Charles 1, was beheaded in the conflict between the monarch and the House of Commons during the Civil War in the 17 th century. For a brief time there was no monarchy and Parliament ruled the country alone. Book 3 -Unit 8
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