A Womans Place?

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Pre-Reading Activities
A: Talking About Numbers
1. Look at the fractions and percentages in the pie charts below.

2. How do we say the fractions below? Say the fractions (as words) in English. i. 1/4: _______ ii. 1/3: _______ iii. 3/4: _______ iv. 1/2: _______ 3. How do we say these percentages? Say the percentages (as words) in English. i. 25%: _______ ii. 33.3%: _______ iii. 75%: _______ iv. 50%: _______ 4. Look at the pie chart on your right. Which sentence is correct? i. Most of the doctors in our hospital are men. ii. Most of the doctors in our hospital are women.

B: Vocabulary

Look at the meanings of these words from todays article. Home is the place where you live. I stayed at home yesterday because I was sick. Work is the place where you have a job. I am not going to work today because it is Saturday.

Reading Activities
A: Check Your Understanding
Read the sentences about todays article. Fill the gaps with the correct number. Use the article to help you. 1. _________ of workers in the world are women. 2. _________ of people in a poll think women should not work. (poll - people are asked questions to see what they think) 3. _________ % of people in a poll think women should work.

Is a womans place in the home? 1 in 4 say yes

NEW YORK, Sun Mar 7, Women are world leaders, CEOs and are 50% of the worlds workers but a poll shows that a quarter of people, most of them young, think a woman should stay at home and not work. The Reuters/Ipsos poll of more than 24,000 people in 23 countries shows that many people from India, Turkey, Japan, China, Russia, Hungary and South Korea think women should not work. Surprisingly, people aged between 18 and 34 years think that women should not work. H o w e v e r, m o s t people in the survey, 74 percent, think a womans place is not in the home.
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Country

A womans place is in the home Poll Results

Agree % Disagree %

India 54 Turkey 52 Japan 48 China 34 Russia 34 Hungary 34 South Korea 33 Czech Republic 28 Australia 25 United States 25 Great Britain 22 Netherlands 20 Canada 20 Italy 19 Poland 18 Belgium 16 Germany 14 Spain 12 Brazil 10 Sweden 10 Mexico 9 France 9 Argentina 9

46 48 52 66 66 66 67 72 75 75 78 80 80 81 82 84 86 88 90 90 91 91 91

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B: Comprehension
Read the questions below. Find the answers in todays article. 1. Who did the poll? 2. How many countries were in the poll? 3. How many people were in the poll?

C: Correct or Incorrect?
Read these sentences. Which one is correct? 1. i. Most people in the survey think women should work. ii. Most people in the survey think women should not work. 2 i. Young people in some countries think women should work. ii. Young people in some countries think women should not work.

D: Understanding Figures
Use the article to answer these questions. 1. In how many countries did more than half of the people in the survey think women should not work? 2. In how many countries did more than half of the people in the survey think women should work? 3. In which countries did more than half of the people in the survey think women should work?

E: Language
However is an adverb. It means but. It shows that a thing or an idea is different. It joins two sentences. Find it in todays article. 1. Why did the writer use however here? Surprisingly is an adverb. It means that something is surprising or is something that we did not expect. Find it in todays article. 2. Why did the writer use surprisingly here?

Post-Reading Activities
You may do one or more of these.

A: Discussion
1. What question did the poll ask? 2. What is your answer for this question? Why do you think this?

B: Find out...
Find out the name of a woman who is a leader or a CEO. What does she do? Then give a short report to the class about her.

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TEACHERS' NOTES AND ANSWER KEY

Pre-Reading Activities A: Talking About Numbers - Answers 2i. one quarter/a quarter, ii. one third/a third, iii. three quarters, iv. a half/one half. 3. i. twenty five percent, ii. thirty three and a third percent (recurring), iii. seventy five per cent, iv. fifty percent. 4. ii. Reading Activities A: Check Your Understanding - Answers 1. 50%/ Half, 2. a quarter /25%, 3. 74%/nearly three quarters. B: Comprehension - Answers 1. Reuters/Ipsos, 2.23 countries, 3. more than 24,000. C: Correct or Incorrect? - Answers 1i. and 2ii. are correct according to todays article. D: Understanding Figures - Answers 1. 2, 2. 21, 3. All of the countries in the poll except for India and Turkey. E: Language - Answers 1. The writer uses it to show that while many young people think women should not work, most people in the survey think differently: they think women should not be in the home. 2. We would expect older people perhaps to have this view as older people are often thought to be more conservative and young people more idealistic and more radical.

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