the gender – role revolution.ppt

Chapter 5
The Gender – Role Revolution
Contents
Revision
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Setting Goals
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Learning Strategy
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Language Points of Reading 1
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Summary and Assignments
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Setting Goals
Identify causes and effects in reading passages
Create anizers
Use plex cause and effect in writing
Make new material personally meaningful
Understand the limitations of dictionaries in translation
Recognize and use bibliographic citations
Questions:
Who do the most of house chores in your family? And Who has the say in your family?
Are Chinese women enjoy more freedom than women in other countries?
Do you think the society offers the same job opportunities to women as to men in China? Why?
What determines the roles of men and women in the family?
Warm-up
In China, women’s roles have changed dramatically. Women are ing more independent. They have the right to receive an education and get a job. From working as nurses and teachers to working as doctors, engineers, and managers, women are no longer confined to work in the fields,. They even surpass men in some jobs which used to be occupied by men.
Feminism 女权主义
Feminist movement
女权运动
Suffrage 选举权
Patriarchal/matriarchal society
父系/母系社会
Equality of men and women
男女平等
Women’s liberation
妇女解放
Equal 平等
Equal pay for equal work
同工同酬
Look down on 轻视
Raise a family 抚养子女
Femininity 女子气质
Masculinity男子气质
Inferior 次等的
Superior 高一等的
Maternity leave 产假
Be deprived of 被剥夺
Humanism 人道主义
Human rights 人权
Vulnerable group 弱势群体
Have a constitutional right to
宪法赋予……权利
Learn to identify causes and effects in readings can help better understand the relationship between main ideas.
Identify causes and effects
What happen after ------ effects
The effect, on the other hand, examines the consequences of the cause. It answers the question So What?
Why ------- causes
The Causes usually refers to one or several actions, events, attitudes, and conditions in the past, which explains why something happened. It helps to answer the Why?
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