Section B 2 7 UNIT A proud homemaker To master the reading skill To understand the text To practice the phrases and patterns To learn about writing

Section B

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7 Women: Making a diff erence

UNIT

A proud homemaker

A proud homemaker

To master the reading skill

To understand the text

To practice the phrases and patterns

To learn about writing

Objectives

Warming-up

Reading Skills

Text Study

Comparative Study

Contents

Unit Project

A proud homemaker

A proud homemakerBSECTION

Warming-up

Lead-in

Background Information

A proud homemaker


1.According to the video clip, how do you understand the word “homemaker”?

Watch a video clip and answer the following questions

Video Watching

Tips

Tips

2. Should you be a stay-at-home mom, or a working mom?

Lead-in

Watch a video clip and answer the following questionsLead-in

Tips

Lead-in

A homemaker is a woman who spends a lot of time looking after her home and family. If you describe a woman as a homemaker, you usually mean that she does not have another job.

1.According to the video clip, how do you understand the word “homemaker”?


Lead-in

2. Should you be a stay-at-home mom, or a working mom?


Tips

Giving up a salary is hard to do, especially in a difficult economy. But you might not be giving up as much money as you would think if you take into consideration the costs of daycare ， commuting, professional wardrobe, eating out, and other work related expenses. If you can afford to give up that amount of income, you may decide it is not worth the headache of juggling the stresses of work and raising a family.

What does the word “homemaker ”mean and where does it come from?

Tips


Tips

The word “homemaker” is mainly an American gender-neutral term for a housewife or stay-at-home mom and also a stay-at-home dad. It is a compound word which combines two nouns: home and maker.In the 19th century, more and more women in industrializing countries stopped being homemakers and begin to do jobs that men usually did. At this time many big factories were set up. Many thousands of young women went to work in factories.


Reading Skills

Presentation of the Skill

Reading Skill Practice

A proud homemaker


Effective readers use titles, headings,

pictures, and texts, as well as personal

experiences to make predictions before they

begin to read. Predicting involves thinking

ahead while reading and anticipating

information and events in the text. After

making predictions, students can read

through the text and refine, revise, and verify

their predictions.


Predicting the Author ’s Ideas



The strategy of making predictions actively engages students and connects them to the text by asking them what they think might occur in the reading.



Take a look at the title of Text A: Women in the workplace. From the title you can predict that the reading will probably give the information to the following questions:


Reading Skill Practice

Who specifically are mentioned in the reading?

What happens to the women in the workplace?

What does the reading talk about women?

What is the significance of this topic to readers?

Questions

Text Study

Text Comprehension

Language Focus

Critical Thinking

A proud homemaker


Text Comprehension

1. After reading the title and the first paragraph, you probably know that the following part of the reading might be about______? (Para. 1)

2. Based on the tone of the text, what does the author probably think about the 1950s housewife? (Para. 1)

3. After reading Paragraph 2, you already know how she used to do her housework while she was working outside and how she experienced the same situation growing up. What will you predict she may say in the next paragraph? (Para. 2)

4. What is the most proper description of her feeling toward her childhood? (Para. 2)

Questions Previewing

Text Comprehension

5. What does the author think of the opinion that a housewife’s job is neither challenging nor important? (Para. 4)

6. What does the author want to tell people regarding doing house chores? (Para. 4)

7. How does the author manage to cope with her family’s financial situation? (Para. 5)

8. What’s the implication from the author’s comment on her being a housewife? (Para. 5)

Questions Previewing

1. After reading the title and the first paragraph, you probably know that the following part of the reading might be about_________? (Para. 1)

Try to predict the general direction of the author’s thinking in Text B.

Tips

Text Comprehension

Note

how the author will give the reasons why it’s good to be a housewife.

2. Based on the tone of the text, what does the author

probably think about the 1950s housewife? (Para. 1)

It’s not necessarily unpleasant to make homemaker their life’s work.

Tips

Text Comprehension

原句：When hearing the word “housewife”, what comes to your mind? For many people, it’s a picture of domestic discontent. (Para. 1, L1)

解释 : What image will you have in your mind when you hear the word “housewife”? To many people , it is a picture of restlessness and dissatisfaction at home.

译文：当听到“家庭主妇”这个词时，你想到的是

什么？对许多人而言，“家庭主妇”的形象就是对家务琐事充满抱怨不满。

Text comprehensionSentence interpretation

3.After reading Paragraph 2, you already know how she used to do her housework while she was working outside and how she experienced the same situation growing up. What will you predict she may say in the next paragraph? (Para. 3)

She enjoys her current

lifestyle.

Tips

Text Comprehension

4. What is the most proper description of her feeling toward her childhood? (Para. 2)

Tips

Text comprehension

Stressful and nervous.

5. What does the author think of the opinion that a housewife’s job is neither challenging nor important? (Para. 4)

She thinks it’s wrong to think in this way.

Tips

Text comprehension

6. What does the author want to tell people regarding

doing house chores? (Para.4)

she enjoys everything she’s doing.

Tips

Text Comprehension

7. How does the author manage to cope with her

family’s financial situation? (Para. 5)

Cut the unnecessary things and live a simple life.

Tips

Text Comprehension

8. What’s the implication from the author’s comment on her being a housewife? (Para. 5)

Tips

Text Comprehension

Happiness is derived from within one’s heart.

I remember my own working days before I

settled down as a full-time___________. For

the __________of time that I was working full

time, I came home late, ___________a

prepackaged dinner for my family, and busied

myself with housework until ________ into bed

each night, exhausted. I_________ my

parents’ had work, but a childhood only last a

short while before it’s gone forever.

Text Comprehension Text Summary

homemaker

duration

heated up

crawling

appreciate

I can’t in good __________let my children look

back and wish we had spent less time folding

_________clothes and more time

together

as a family. When I first ________ to being a

a housewife, unemployment was__________-.

However, now I know it’s wrong to think of a

housewife as anything but __________

and important.

Text ComprehensionText Summary

conscience

wrinkled

converted

embarrassing

challenging

Of course, I don’t receive an income for my hours of _____work, but my husband and I are a team, and we decided _____________that we would rather enjoy living a life with more family time and less money. However, I swear that it’s the best _______for me and my family. Everyday, I work harder than I did at my old job and I find that I have more happiness and ________than I did before.

Text ComprehensionText Summary

democratically

lifestyle

dignity

hard

Practical PhrasesLanguage Focus

Practical Phrases Specific Meanings1. work full time 全职工作2. crawl into bed 爬上床3. quality time 宝贵时间4. trim the unnecessary things 消减不必要的开支5. joint understanding and respect 互相理解和尊重6. converted to 转换7. an ounce of 一丝，一点8. supplement one’s income 贴补某人的收入

全职工作

(English conversation schools / work full time)

Most of my foreign friends here work full time for big English conversation schools.

work full time短语逆译

短语应用我的外国朋友绝大多数都在大的英语口语学校做全职工作 .

意群提示

Language Focus Practical Phrases

爬上床 crawl into bed短语逆译

(tear one’s clothes/ crawl into bed)

Totally exhausted, he tore his clothes off and crawled into bed.

短语应用他疲惫不堪，胡乱扯掉衣服，爬到床上。

意群提示


宝贵时间 quality time短语逆译

短语应用如果有空，最好和不同年龄的人都好好坐在一起聊聊。

意群提示


(spend quality time)

If you are free, you’d better spend quality time with people of different ages.

消减不必要的开支

(looked at ways / trim the unnecessary things.)

American companies looked at ways they could trim the unnecessary things.

trim the unnecessary things

短语逆译

短语应用美国公司研究了能够削减不必要开支的方法。

意群提示


互相理解和尊重

(interreligious harmony

It means that they recognize that building interreligious harmony takes joint understanding and respect.

joint understanding and respect短语逆译

短语应用这表明 , 他们知道要建立一个宗教和谐的社会 , 人们需要互相理解和尊重 .

意群提示


转换

convert to being

People converted to being a vegetarian due to a lot of other reasons.

convert to短语逆译

短语应用还有许多其它的理由使人们变成素食主义者。

意群提示


一丝，一点

If only / possess / an ounce of business sense.

If only my father had possessed an ounce of business sense.

an ounce of短语逆译

短语应用要是我父亲有一点点经商的头脑就好了。

意群提示


贴补某人的收入

part-time job earnings

More and more students begin to supplement their incomes with part-time job earnings.

supplement one’s income短语逆译

短语应用越来越多的学生开始通过勤工俭学来贴补收入。意群提示


Language Focus

Functional Patterns Functions & Usages

1.Sb remembers his own days or time before he did sth.as…

用于表达“某人对某事的特别记忆”

2.Even more importantly, sb does sth when…

用于突出强调“某人在某时做了某事”

3.Sb is revolted by the notion that …

用于表达“某人对某种观念 / 思想感到震惊”

Functional Patterns

句型提炼

我记得我自己工作的那会儿，那是我安心当全职家庭主妇以前的事。

原句译文

逆译练习I remember my own working days before I settled down as a full time homeworker.

Language FocusFunctional Patterns

句型应用

1.Sb remembers his own days or time before he did sth.as…

句型提炼

应用提示用于表达“某人对某事的特别记忆”


（ the trying but rewarding days / academic work ）All the student still remember the trying but rewarding days of military training before they settled down to start their academic work as college freshmen.

典型例句所有学生都记得军训那段时间是十分卖力却非常有收获的日子，那是作为大一新生开始专业学习之前的事。

意群提示


句型提炼

更重要的是，当我出差离家时，他帮我做了许多零碎的家务：照料房子、照看孩子、关注一切细枝末节。

原句译文

逆译练习 Even more importantly, he did many fragments of my job when I was away on business trips: He took care of the house, the children and every detail.

Language focusFunctional patterns

句型应用

Even more importantly, sb does sth when…

句型提炼

应用提示用于突出强调“某人在某时做了某事”


（ shoulder all the responsibilities ）

Even more importantly, many housewives have to shoulder all the responsibilities of taking care of the old and the young in the family when their husbands are away.

典型例句更重要的是，许多家庭主妇在丈夫离家时，她们不得不肩负起照顾全家老少的责任。

意群提示


句型提炼

认为我肯定很压抑或不满，因为我丈夫和我选择了一种更过时的生活方式的想法让我感到和很震惊。

原句译文

逆译练习

I am revolted by the notion that I must be depressed or unfulfilled because my husband and I have chosen to live in a more old-fashioned setting.


句型应用

3.Sb is revolted by the notion that …

句型提炼

应用提示用于表达“某人对某种观念 /思想感到震惊”


（ Sb is revolted by the notion that … ）

More and more people are very much revolted by the notion held by some young people that the happiness of life depends on the amount of money and the size of house they have.　

典型例句有些年轻人认为生活的幸福取决于钱的多少和房子的大小，越来越多的人对此观点感到震惊。　意群提示


1. 自豪的家庭主妇 2.谴责不同的生活方式

3.加热包装食品 4. 疲倦劳累 5.治疗、放松某人的压力 6. 互相理解和尊重 7. 很好的榜样 8. 不健康成分 9.享受生活10.受到压制和感到不满

11.兼职工作

Language FocusGenuine Collocations

a proud homemaker

condemn a different lifestyleheat up a prepackaged dinner

yawning and exhausted

therapy for one’s stress

joint understanding and respect

a good example

unhealthy ingredients enjoy living a lifebe oppressed and discontented

part-time job

a. I appreciate my parents’

hard work, but a childhood

only lasts a short while before

it’s gone forever.

我感谢我父母的辛劳，但童年只是人生一个瞬间，一去不复返。

b. I can’t in good conscience

let my children look back and

wish we had spent less time

folding wrinkled clothes and

more time together as a

family.

扪心自问我不能让我的孩子们回头看时，想着要是我们少花点时间折叠打皱的衣服，而有更多的时间陪伴他们就好了。

记住，以后当一个女人回答她是一位家庭主妇时，应该不要歧视她，要为她击掌喝彩，而不要显露怜悯之情或以让人厌烦的眼光看她。

c. Consider this: In the future ,

when a woman answers that she

is a housewife, you should avoid

discrimination and give her a high

five instead of showing pity or

giving her a boring glance.

Further Discussion

1. How would you associate the 1950s housewife in the US with the housewife in China today? Are there any similarities ?

2. Who should be the breadwinner in a family, the husband or the wife? Why?

3. If you have to choose either work outside or stay home to be a housewife / househusband, which one would you choose? Why?

Critical Thinking

Tips

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Tips

Similarities: family-oriented, busy with house chores, take care of children, clean rooms, do laundry.

Further DiscussionCritical Thinking

Tips

1. How would you associate the 1950s housewife in the US with the housewife in China today? Are there any similarities ?

Critical Thinking

Tips

2. Who should be the breadwinner in a family ,the husband or the wife? Why?

Further Discussion

The husband: The man is supposed to have more responsibilities for his family since he is physically stronger than his wife.

The wife: The woman, to some degree, is more persevered in overcoming difficulties and she is always family-oriented.

Both: The man and the woman both play important and essential roles in supporting a family-oriented.

Work outside: have many contacts, communicate with more people, be informed of the outside world, be more financially independent.

Stay home: take better care of family, pay more attention to children, provide healthier food to family, keep the rooms clean, help and support the husband / wife.

Critical thinking

Tips

3. If you have to choose either work outside or stay home to be a housewife/househusband, which one would you choose? Why?

Further discussion

Women in the Ancient Chinese Culture

Critical thinking

Cultural Exploration

1. Can you say something about Women in

the Ancient Chinese Culture?

2. Can you list some famous women who

lived in ancient China?

Critical thinking

Tips

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Critical thinking

Tips

1. Can you say something about Women in the

Ancient Chinese Culture?


Women in ancient Chinese culture lived by the rules set by Confucius in his analects. According to Confucius, women were not equal to men and were not worthy to have literacy and education. For almost two thousand years, the life of Chinese women was unbearable. During the years of growing up, a typical Chinese woman had to listen to her father and other male members in the family. A woman in ancient China was not given a name; instead she was called "daughter no1", "daughter no2" and so on.

2. Can you list some famous women who lived in ancient China?

Critical Thinking

Tips


Empress Wu - Remember, the women in ancient Chinese culture had no right to express their thoughts and feelings. Empress Wu challenged the rules of Confucius when she became the Empress to rule China. During her reign, she elevated the position of women. The court scholars were asked to write biographies of famous women of China and the rest of the world. She established matriarchal rule in ancient China. According to her, an ideal ruler is one who rules his empire like a mother who dotes on her children.

2. Can you list some famous women who lived in ancient China?

Critical Thinking

Tips


Xi Shi - This legendary beauty of ancient China was the daughter of a tea merchant in China. She became popular because she was responsible for the fall of the kingdom of Wu. Prince Fuchai of State of Wu humiliated the King of Yue, Goujian. The king was forced to serve the prince for a couple of years, before he was released from the bondage. On returning, he asked his court to summon the most beautiful woman in his kingdom. The king approved the beauty of Xi Shi. She was taught royal etiquette and sent to entice the prince of Wu.

Thematic study

Comparative Study

Thematic Study

Language Features Analysis

A proud homemaker


2. How do you understand the Women in modern society after reading the two passages?

Thematic Study

1.Make comparison between different themes in Text A and Text B.

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Tips

1. Make comparison between different themes in Text A and Text B.

Text A

1.Females are working in different business sectors in management .2.Women have played an important role at the management level, along with their challenges and frustrations.3.Career women are helpful both to their families and to society .

Text B1.Women stay at home.2.The author portrays a happy full-time housewife who consider her job at home absolutely important .3.Women were often very proud to be a good homemaker and have their house and children taken good care of.

Thematic Study

As more women have entered the workforce and played significant roles, societies have been greatly impacted. Everywhere, the roles of men and women are shifting in new ways: Men are sometimes caregivers, and women are frequently found in the workplace. However, some people long for a more traditional model of family with a working husband and stay-at–home wife.

Tips

Thematic Study


Text B portrays a happy full-time housewife who considers her job at home absolutely important. The implication of it is that the job of housewife should be respected .

Tips

Thematic Study


Based on your study of

the two texts, compare

the writing styles of the

two texts in terms of their

typical language features.


1. What are the typical language features of the two texts?

2. List more examples from the text to support your ideas.


Tips

Tips

Similarities:The language used in both readings is somewhat casual, with the tone of the first reading more serious and report-orientated. Women’s working style and way of thinking are clearly depicted, which will surely provoke an interesting debate on gender issue.



Tips

Comparison:Text A: Text A is a featured article on female working styles by way of presenting various scenarios at work ,blended with many direct speeches and present verb tenses such as says, agrees, proclaims, report, feels, pauses when referring to the past.Text B: Text B is a narrative about the author’s personal experience of being a housewife.



Tips



TipsExamples from text A:

Some proclaim that men and women of similar backgrounds, experience and aspirations basically manage in the same way.Deborah says that her authority is sometimes undermined by perceptions about her gender.



Tips

Examples from text BI remember my own working days before I settled down as a full-time homemaker.I experienced the same situation growing up in a household with two working parents.From my time in the workforce, I know how tiring and stressful a 9 to 5 grind can be.

Unit Project

Talk Show

Poem Appreciation

Writing

A proud homemaker


Hosted by a talk show host for about 8-10 minutes, a few managers, both male an female, will answer questions about themselves on management styles.

Talk Show

Objectives:

Talk Show

1.Students can learn more about various

management styles.

2.Students know how to prepare for a talk

show.

3.Students know how to cooperate with their

group members.

The following are some questions for your reference:

Talk Show

1.In what ways are you happy or unhappy with your work?

2.How can you effectively communicate with your employees?

3.What strategies do you usually use to deal with employees’ concerns?

4.How do you manage to accomplish different goals and tasks at work?

5.Who do you feel to work with more easily, males or females? Why?

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Read the following poem and answer

the following questions.

1. According to the poet, what are the differences between “a strong woman” and “a woman of strength”? (open)

2. Which one do you prefer, “a strong woman” or “a woman of strength”? (open)

Questions:

Poem Appreciation

A strong woman works out every day to keep her body in shape,but a woman of strength kneels in prayer to keep her soul in shape.A strong woman isn't afraid of anything,but a woman of strength shows courage in the midst of her fear.A strong woman won't let anyone get the best of her,but a woman of strength gives the best of her to everyone.

Poem Appreciation

A strong woman walks sure footedly,but a woman of strength knows God will catch her if she falls.A strong woman wears the look of confidence on her face,but a woman of strength wears grace.A strong woman has faith that she is strong enough for the journey,but a woman of strength has faith that it is in the journey that she will become strong.

Poem Appreciation

Write a composition on the topic Whether woman should stay home?

You may include the following points: 1.Women started entering the workplace to achieve a fulfilling career as well as financial independence; 2.The first reason for women to stay at home is that children are better off for it; 3.The second reason is that the duties of wife and mother are tiring ;4.Finally, women’s retreat from the workplace may have a positive effect on the job market.

Writing

You may use the following expressions in your writing.

Writing

Most women are forced to stay at home to do sth.;A stay-at-home mother has a lot of time for her kids; A working women is already exhausted by sth.;It’s unfair for women to do sth.;Mothers have to get out to work so as to do sth.; I think this would help to improve children’s social skills and make them more financially independent.

The End

A proud homemaker


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Section B 2 7 UNIT A proud homemaker To master the reading skill To understand the text To practice the phrases and patterns To learn about writing