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Book 3-Unit 8

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Women’s low social position is a serious problem. It is evident in almost every aspect of social life. Even our language often gives us the false impression that women simply don’t exist. For example, once the word man meant person or human being. But the word man has gradually become more specific in meaning and is now a synonym for an adult male human being only. In the words of a popular dictionary for children, a boy grows up to be a man. Father and Uncle George are both men. This is the meaning that we understand because we hear the word man used in everyday speech in this way from childhood. Later we learn that the word man has another meaning, but we do not accept it with the same certainty. Studies of college students and school children show that phrases like economic man and political man or man is a dreamer create an image of males only, not females or males and females together. Furthermore, we have become aware that conventional English usage often minimizes the achievements, the contributions and sometimes the very presence of women.

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When Grateful Begins to Grate

grateful (a. 感激的 ) grate （ v. 产生不满情绪） alliteration Answer the following questions:1. Was the woman well off in terms of her family life? 2. What did the wife actually want from her family life?

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1. Possible list of details

- An open-minded husband who let her go out to work in the 60s

- An understanding and helpful husband who Feeding the baby at night

Taking charge of the children when his wife was sick

Driving the car for the carpool

Making dinner when the wife was late home

Taking requests from the wife with a smile

2. She wanted to have a shared life, not manage the

household alone.

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True or False

Try to finish the exercise on page 116,and check your answers.

1. T 2. F 3. NM 4. F 5.T6. F 7. F 8. T 9.T 10. T

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1. Work out a new ending for the story. It begins like this:

Next day after children went to bed…

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2. What should husband and wife do if they want to treat each other as equals?

Hints

If the wife has a PhD degree, but the husband has only a Bachelor degree from a community college:

If the husband is a CEO of a multinational company, but the wife is a worker in a shoe company:

The husband earns much less than the wife does: The grandparents on the husband’s side wish to

have a grandson in order to continue the family line, but the family has had three daughters in a row:

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Grammar: Object/object complement

Vocabulary: Gender neutral words

Vocabulary: Neutral forms of both sexes

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We consider him a good doctor.

The jury found him guilty.

Study the following sentences.

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Object/Object Complement

So he is a good doctor.

So he is guilty.

1. We all promise to do our best to make this world ___________.

2. He is a liar. Why should we elect him _________.

3. The committee nominated her ___________________.

4. I now pronounce you _______________.

5. They liked the Mexican pot so much that they named it _________.

a. Complete the following sentences using the words or phrases in the box. (page 117)

a better place chairman

best writer of the year

husband and wife

Charlie

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best writer of the year Charlie chairman a better place husband and wife

1. The bus is stuck in the mud. We have to give it a push to start it ______.

2. We have already pushed it. Still, we can’t get the bus ______.3. There must be someone inside. I can hear people ______.4. Poor old Bill had his bike ______ yesterday. He left it ______

when he went into the library. 5. The father put all his hopes on the son and left the talents of

the daughters ____________.6. Mr. Murphy came all over funny. So he went to the factory

clinic and had his head __________.

going

startedtalking

stolen unlocked

unattended to

examined

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b. Complete the following sentences with the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. (page 117)

7. In order to find other people involved in the criminal organisation, the police wanted to catch the suspects ______.

8. You don’t need to check the dictionary every time you come across a word ________ to you.

9. Smelling gas flowing out of the house, neighbours broke in, only to discover him already ______.

10. The young man apologised, “I’m sorry to have kept you ______.

11. Are these your gloves? I found them _____ on the floor.12. The judge found him not guilty and set him ______.

dead

unfamiliar

alive

lying

awake

free

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Vocabulary Work: Gender Neutral Words

a. Look at the following rather sexist advertisement for an airline. Change the wording to make it more neutral. (page 118)

Now! Eagle Airlines offers even moreto the businessman who needs comfort

Let us fly to your destination in first-class comfort, looked after by the best-trained cabin attendants (or cabin staff) in the world. Any business person knows that they (or he or she) must arrive fresh and ready for work no matter how long the journey. With Eagle Diplomat-Class you can do just that. And, what’s more, your partner/ spouse can travel with you on all intercontinental flights for only 25% of the normal fare! Your secretary can book you on any flights 24 hours a day on 0555-3456789. All he or she has to do is lift the phone.

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The manager 22/11/98Frenstowe Engineering Ltd.

Dear Sir,I am a housewife aged 32 and am seeking employment. I saw your advertisement for part-time workers in The Globe last week. However, your 24-hour answering service seemed to be unmanned when I tried it. Could you please send me application forms by post? Thank you.

Yours sincerely, Sally Hewings (Mrs.)

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am aged 32, married,

unstaffed

(Ms.)

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b. Make the following letter more gender-neutral. (page 118)

Reference Materials for Neutral Forms of Both Sexes

Neutral Traditional Terms

Current Acceptable/ Fashionable Terms

Chair(person) Chairman Chairwoman (Chair or Chairman is still used – never Chairwoman)

Spokesperson Spokesman Spokeswoman (Only Spokesperson is used now)

Police officer Policeman Policewoman

- Postman Post-woman (In the UK Postman is still used for all)

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Neutral Traditional Terms Current Acceptable/ Fashionable Terms

Mariner Fisherman (Mariner is used to describe anyone who works at sea, and could be an alternative.)

Bartender Barman Barmaid

Businessperson Businessman Businesswoman

Fire-fighter Fireman (Most firemen are still firemen due to the physical strength needed.

Flight-attendant Steward Stewardess/air hostess

Head (teacher) Headmaster Headmistress

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1. I prefer spring to autumn though I love both seasons. 2. I believe that electric cars will one day supplant petrol-

driven ones.3. They warned him of the danger of climbing the Himalayas,

but he wouldn’t listen.4. The teacher told his students that their future prospects

hinged on their education. 5. Everybody thinks that she deserved Best Actress award of

the Year.

Key to Translation (page 119)

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6. Every time the girl came across a problem, she would turn to her mother for a solution, rather than trying to solve it herself.

7. After her husband died, she continued to nurture her three daughters. 8. It seems that a lot of people learn English less as a practical language than for its grammar.

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Reference Answers

1. Why did farmers prefer boys over girls? 2. What kind of person was Branwell? 3. In what way are cultural preferences and bad habits alike? 4. What did the three selfless sisters do in support of their brother? 5. What kind of writings are the novels of the three sisters: Are they more like fiction or autobiography? 6. What would the father do were he alive today?

Ask questions about the underlined parts in Section 6 on page 119.

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Study the structure of Genius Sacrificed for Failure.

Write a short essay on one of the following two topics

1. Children’s creativity will be murdered by a teacher’s or by parental over-protection.

2. Great writers are not trained, but grow out of the school of hard knocks.

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Answer the following questions according to the cultural information.

1. Does the monarch have real power in managing the country?

2. Why does the monarch never enter the House of Commons?

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1. No, nowadays the monarch is only a symbolic head of the country. This is known as a constitutional monarchy. In the past the monarch used to hold absolute power. In some countries the monarchy still does have absolute power, such as Swaziland and the Vatican City.

2. One of the kings in English history, King Charles 1, was beheaded in the conflict between the monarch and the House of Commons during the Civil War in the 17th century. For a brief time there was no monarchy and Parliament ruled the country alone.

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