Unit 1 Women of achievement

Listen to the text. ARE WOMEN GIVEN A FAIR CHANCE?

I don ’ t think women are given a ____ chance to have as good a ______ as men for ______ reasons. First, girls have more ________ getting an _________ than boys. If there is little money in the ______, boys will get the ____ chance to go to school. Even if girls do ______ school, they often leave earlier Listen again and fill in the blanks. fair career three difficulty education first family begin

to help the family or to go to _____. It is often felt that girls will ______ and look after another family ____ that boys must ____ money for the family. This way of thinking ________ some girls from _______ for a career. _______, women have more difficulty getting to the ___ of their chosen career. work marry but earn prevents training Second top

Most people who ____ companies are men. So they ______ other men to _______ them. This means that women get _____ chances to show how good they are at running businesses. ______ they are given the __________, they will never be able to _____ that they can run companies __________. run succeed choose fewer Unless opportunity show successfully

Third, women are more _____ to give up their careers to look after ________ or run the _____. This is because these kinds of responsibilities are _________ women ’ s work. However, men do not have this _______. They can work long hours and go on business ____. They can improve their career chances _____ the family is _____ for at home. likely children house considered problem trips since cared

JOAN OF ARC L = Luc LM = Ming Listen to Part 1.

LM: Who is Joan of Arc? L: She was a very brave _______ lady who fought for her _______ about ____ hundred yeas ago. LM: Why did she do that? L: Well, at that time the _______ were ruling _______. They treated the French ______. Listen again and fill in the blanks. French country six English France badly

LM: Oh, dear! Why didn’t the French _______ drive the English out of France? L: They _____, but they didn ’ t have good _______. So they lost every ______. LM: How did Joan help? L: She ______ the French army. She was a very _____ soldier and she won battles _______ the English army. soldiers tried leaders battle joined good against

LM: Were women _______ to be soldiers then? L: No, they weren ’ t. The Church didn ’ t allow it. LM: So how did she _______ a soldier? L: Well, she dressed up and ________ like a man, and some people say she went to see the _____ of France and got his __________. allowed become behaved king permission

Listen to Part 2.

LM: How could she be ___ brave? L: That ’ s because she ________ God had sent her. She had many good _____ for attacking the English army. The French soldiers ________ her. LM: I see, but what did the English do? L: They were very ______. They caught her and the Church _______ she had not behaved as a woman should. So they _____ her. Listen again and fill in the blanks. so believed ideas followed angry decided killed

LM: How _______! What happened to the French after her ______? L: The French soldiers were ________ by her spirit and won more battles. Finally they ______ the English _____ in France. terrible death inspired ended rule

LM: So she ____ in the end. Did the English feel _____ about what they did to her? L: Yes, they did. Much later they ___________ that she was fighting for her country. The Church made her a ______! won sorry understood saint

Listen to Part 1. ENDING LANDMINES DL = Ding Lingyu JW = Jody Williams

DL: Now Ms Williams, why did you _____ this work? JW: I found that people were _____ killed by landmines ____ by the armies long after a war was _____. I was really _________ about it. DL: So what does your campaign ____ to do? Listen again and fill in the blanks. start being left concerned try over

JW: We try to _______ landmines as quickly as possible, and stop countries making or ______ them. DL: How do you ________ your campaign? JW: Small groups of ICBL members from different ________ talk to each other. Then they can _____ each other. DL: Can you give me an ________? JW: In West Africa, for example, there have been many _____. remove using organize countries help example wars

Each country tries to remove the landmines left ______ after a war ends. Some countries are working _____ than others. DL: So you __________ them to tell the others ____ to remove landmines more _______, is that right? JW: Yes, in that way good ideas move _______ the world. behind faster encourage how quickly around

Listen to Part 2.

Listen again and fill in the blanks. DL: I suppose all the __________ has come to you, right? JW: Yes, our organization ______ to governments around the world. We provide them _____ information and advice. DL: I see. Does that work very _____? JW: Yes, it led to our greatest success – the Oslo Agreement of _____. information speaks with well 1997

DL: What did that _______? JW: It helped stop the making and use of landmines. ____ countries signed it and ___ countries agreed to make it part of their laws. We felt so happy and _____. DL: Well, you and ICBL have ________ an even greater _______ since then. It was the Nobel Peace Price that _____ year, wasn ’ t it? achieve proud received honour same

JW: Yes, it meant so _____ to me, but above all I hope we can remove landmines ________ and save people ’ s _____. much forever lives