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Unit 1 Women of achievement. Listen to the text. ARE WOMEN GIVEN A FAIR CHANCE?
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Transcript of Unit 1 Women of achievement. Listen to the text. ARE WOMEN GIVEN A FAIR CHANCE?
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.
faircareer
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 ________ orrun 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
sincecared
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
triedleaders
battle
joinedgoodagainst
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.sobelieved
ideas
followed
angrydecided
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
beingleft
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
usingorganize
countrieshelp
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
fasterencourage
howquickly
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
181
81proud
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