Give arguments for or against the following statements. Develop the idea. Agree or disagree. Give arguments to sustain your ground

Agree or disagree. Give arguments to sustain your ground.

Speech activities

Insert a preposition or a particle where necessary.

Explain the meaning of the following phrases and use them while discussing the text.

Language focus

Functional vocabulary

bind v	связывать, соединять
breadwinner n	кормилец (семьи)
castigate v	сурово осуждать, критиковать, обрушиваться (на кого-л.)
entitle v	давать право
be entitled to	иметь право на что-л.
incredulous adj	недоверчивый, скептический
ingrained adj	врожденный, укоренившийся, закоренелый
ingrained honesty	врожденная честность
ingrained prejudices	укоренившиеся предрассудки
stigma n	клеймо позора
rebel v	восставать, бунтовать, протестовать; возмущаться
touch-and-go adj	ненадежный, рискованный
wry adj	кривой, перекошенный
a wry smile	кислая улыбка
to make a wry mouth	сделать гримасу

– to turn over paychecks;

– a home maker;

– a raiser of children;

– means of self-fulfilment;

– unpaid maternity leave;

– to contribute to the family budget.

2. Find the words in the text which have a similar meaning to the following. Translate them into Russian/Belarusian.

– extreme tiredness;

– to come across, to meet;

– to bring up children;

– to criticize or punish sb severely;

– a strong feeling in society that a type of behaviour is shameful;

– to keep the house;

– firmly established and difficult to change;

– to believe that sth is true without making sure.

1. In many families husbands turn … their paychecks to their wives.

2. Teenage children often contribute … the family budget.

3. When a family wants to buy really expensive things they decide … it together.

4. In some countries there is a stigma … being simply a housewife.

5. In some families it is the wife who takes responsibility … managing the household.

6. She never complains … the problems her family faces.

1. Ordinary Russian women take it for granted that they are the binding force in the family.

2. Russian women prefer the exhaustion of too many burdens to the “spiritual death”.

3. Having to be breadwinner can transform work from a means of self-fulfilment and independence into drudgery.

4. The Russian women are rebelling inwardly against having to be breadwinners.

2. What in your opinion are the similarities/differences between the role and status of women in British/American and post-soviet families. For more information and new ideas read the supplementary texts They’ll never go home again and Working Mothers.

· A pay cheque is the most powerful instrument of liberation.

· Women are not needed at home any more.

· Women work because they want to.

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