海大大学英语四课件.pptVIP

Extended Questions 1. What’s the division of labor like in your family? 2. When you get married and set up your own family in the future, what domestic roles do you expect yourself and your spouse to play? Useful Tips Main Family Roles: earning money; washing cleaning; cooking shopping; taking care of children/elderly parents, making regular payments, socializing, making investments Useful Words and Expressions male/female-dominated, overlapping roles, breadwinner, homemaker, housewife, full-time job, part-time job, poorly-paid, work overtime, make ends meet, making family budgets, making purchasing decisions, attending wedding ceremonies, take care of children physically, emotionally and academically; telephone, and internet, pay for monthly bills on electricity, gas, water, deposit money in commercial banks, run business, invest in stock markets, main source of income, an odd job（零活）, well-paid Writing Style and Skills The structure of this argumentative article features simplicity. It consists primarily of two parts: The first four paragraphs are included in Part One. The rest make up of Part Two. In Part One, the author starts with pointing out the issue of inequality between sexes in today’s society, then analyses the fundamental reason leading to unbalanced roles played by men and women. That is, the collapse of the sexual division of labor with the advancement of modern civilization. Based on this proposition（主张）, the author advocates a movement for male equality. Writing Style and Skills Part Two is the main body of the article, the Manifesto for Men, namely, a listing of the new concepts the author urges men to develop and accept to win equality with women in their social roles. It can be divided into 6 sections, with a subtitle for each of them, dictating a specific piece of new