Unit 1 Women of achievement

The fourth period Listening
Step 1
Show the picture of the birth of boys and girls in China. Then show another picture of the jobs of them
Step 2 Listening
Listen to the tape and do the true or false exercises
1. Girls often leave school earlier for family reasons.
2. When there is very little money, the school often prevents girls from training.
3. Girls don’t have a chance to run a company.
4. When women have children, they have to stop work.
5. Men have more chances to get to the top of their career than women.
6. Men can do whatever they like.
Then ask them to answer the question
What three problems do women have which do not apply to men?
Step 3 Listening text
Hand out the listening materials to the students , Listen to the tape and ask them to complete the passage , after three times ,encourage some students to read the passage with the right answers.
Step 4 Listening on P41
Introduce the war between France and Britain. Then mention the important woman: Joan of Arc
Ask the students to listen to the tape and Answer the questions
1. Why did Joan have to dress up as a man to become a soldier?
2. Why did the Church not like Joan acting as a man?
3. Why did France not win a war against the English before Joan became a soldier?
4. Why did Joan help the French army to fight better even after her death?
5. How was she honoured after her death?
At last show them the listening material and get some students to read it





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