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 fatherYour motherTime 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 fatherYour mother Time Cleaning the floor v 1 hour Washing clothes v 1 hour Tidying the kitchen v 30minut es Ironing clothes v 30minut es Repairing things v 1 hour Doing the washing v 1 hour Taking care of the baby v 4 hours Cooking meal v 1.5 hours Going shopping v 1 hour Total 1.5 hours11.5 hours13 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 5. How much time does it take men and women with one or two children to do their housework every week ? 5. How much time does it take men and women with one or two children to do their housework every week ? It takes 15 and 50 hours to do 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 ? 6. what are the number of weekly housework hours that men and women with three or children do respectively ? They are 10 and 55. They are 10 and what do you think should be done to reduce the unequal distribution of the housework hours per week between married men and women ? 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. 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 Lowland s 52%58%65%76% Midlands 58%54%47%43% Highland s 40%49%69%77%

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: The chart shows / describes /illustrates… The chart shows / describes /illustrates… As can be seen from the data in the chart,... As can be seen from the data in the chart,... We can see from the chart... We can see from the chart... According to the chart,... According to the chart,... It is clear from the chart that... It is clear from the chart that... From the chart, it can be seen that… From the chart, it can be seen that… In contrast,... In contrast,... While... While... In general,... / To sum up,... Generally speaking In general,... / To sum up,... Generally 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 Complete your writing perfectly at home

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