Is It a Man’s World?
P.50-51
Unit 3
2 • Private and Public Spheres
WB p. 16
Is It a Man’s World?
➜ To what extent did gender roles start evolving in the 50s and 60s?
Serious Game
Critical Commons
Get ready!
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b. List as many differences as you can between life in the 50s and today.
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a. Compare the gender roles portrayed.
b. What are the characters’ opinions on this topic?
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What roles did men and women traditionally hold in the 50s? Would you say things have changed? How different are gender roles now?
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Toolbox
Toolbox
- representative (adj.)
- shocking (adj.)
- thought-provoking (adj.)
- staging a scene (exp.)
- carpet (n.)
- vacuum (U.S.) / (hoover (U.K.)) (v.)
Let’s learn!
Guessing Game
Select 3 words from the vocabulary list. Write 3 definitions and make your classmates guess the words.
Idiom of the week!
Be your own man / woman
Idiom
This saying means that you should not let yourself be overly influenced by outside opinions, but instead be confident enough to act, think and work independently, regardless of what others tell you.
Gender Roles
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box 1
- breadwinner (n.)
- homemaker (n.)
- household (n.)
- husband (n.)
- nuclear family
- suburbia (n.)
- wife (n.)
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box 2
- misogynous (adj.)
- old-fashioned ≠ modern (adj.)
- patriarchal (adj.)
- traditional (adj.)
- society's beliefs (exp.)
- sexism / male chauvinism (n.)
- conform to / with / obey
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box 3
- household chores (exp.)
- duty / obligation (n.)
- educate / bring up / raise (v.)
- instill (v.)
- keep up / continue (v.)
- pass on (v.)
- take care of / look after (v.)
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box 4
- free oneself from (exp.)
- stand up for sthg. (exp.)
- stuck in traditions (exp.
- contest (v.)
- express (v.)
- give up (v.)
- struggle (v.)
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box 5
- modern conveniences (exp.)
- advertisement (n.)
- advertising (n.)
- commercial (n.)
- marketing (n.)
- propaganda (n.)
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box 6
- stay-at-home mother / housewife (exp.)
- college / university (n.)
- rights (n.)
- secretary (n.)
- stewardess /ˈstjuːədəs/ (n.)
- workplace (n.)
- earn money) (v.)