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Unit 19 Lesson 3
Women and health
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• read and explained some captions
• read a text on female health
• drafted some questions to be used in a survey
• written a paragraph
A The United Nations has declared certain days as occasions for international awareness raising on important issues. Below are some of these. Look at them and in pairs, identify the issue or problem that is reflected in each.
World Ozone Day
Earth Day
World Health Day
World Food Day
Rights of the Child Day
National Day for People with Disabilities
International Mother Language Day
Day of the Elderly
B To celebrate "International Women's Day" on 8th March, an organisation, Women's Association, has urged students to take part in their programme. What do you think the organisation might be planning to do? Work in pairs and give at least 3 ideas.
C Read the text and in pairs answer the questions below.
According to UNICEF, the health of women is a telling window on female inequality and it is most telling at the most vulnerable time of life: infancy and early childhood. The Global Commission on Women's Health considers it imperative to look at women's health within a life-cycle perspective; in other words, throughout the evolving stages of a woman's life. The health conditions in one phase of a woman's life not only affect subsequent phases of her own life, but also have an impact on future generations. This inter-generational link is a characteristic unique to women.
The girl child, as UNICEF categorises the female child up to the age of 15, has become the focus of attention in recent years. Several areas, such as education, work and health, are being re-examined with the specific needs of the girl child in mind. As today's girl is tomorrow's woman and will bear the responsibility for a new generation, it is important that the health needs of girls are met.
1 Why is the life-cycle perspective emphasised in this text7 Discuss in groups.
2 Write in your own words (in simple English) a summary of the text.
D Yon are preparing some questions to carry out a survey on women's health. Look at the information in text C and frame questions with the question-words given here. The first one is done for you.
1 What do you do when you feel ill?
2 At What age .........................................................................................................?
3 When .........................................................................................................?
4 Where .........................................................................................................?
5 Who .........................................................................................................?
6 How much .........................................................................................................?
7 What kind .........................................................................................................?
E Discuss in pairs and then write 2 paragraphs expressing your ideas.
1 What can young people like you do to raise awareness about women's health in your community?
2 What can you do to encourage women to make use of health facilities offered by the state?
Focus:
Skills.
Intensive
reading, speaking, writing.
Functions.
Giving information, making predictions, asking questions.
Grammar/Structure.
Present continuous to express future, question forms.
Vocabulary.
Telling, vulnerable, imperative, life-cycle, evolving, subsequent, impact, inter-generational, unique.
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Unit 19 Lesson 3
Women and health
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• read and explained some captions
• read a text on female health
• drafted some questions to be used in a survey
• written a paragraph
A The United Nations has declared certain days as occasions for international awareness raising on important issues. Below are some of these. Look at them and in pairs, identify the issue or problem that is reflected in each.
World Ozone Day
Earth Day
World Health Day
World Food Day
Rights of the Child Day
National Day for People with Disabilities
International Mother Language Day
Day of the Elderly
B To celebrate "International Women's Day" on 8th March, an organisation, Women's Association, has urged students to take part in their programme. What do you think the organisation might be planning to do? Work in pairs and give at least 3 ideas.
C Read the text and in pairs answer the questions below.
According to UNICEF, the health of women is a telling window on female inequality and it is most telling at the most vulnerable time of life: infancy and early childhood. The Global Commission on Women's Health considers it imperative to look at women's health within a life-cycle perspective; in other words, throughout the evolving stages of a woman's life. The health conditions in one phase of a woman's life not only affect subsequent phases of her own life, but also have an impact on future generations. This inter-generational link is a characteristic unique to women.
The girl child, as UNICEF categorises the female child up to the age of 15, has become the focus of attention in recent years. Several areas, such as education, work and health, are being re-examined with the specific needs of the girl child in mind. As today's girl is tomorrow's woman and will bear the responsibility for a new generation, it is important that the health needs of girls are met.
1 Why is the life-cycle perspective emphasised in this text7 Discuss in groups.
2 Write in your own words (in simple English) a summary of the text.
D Yon are preparing some questions to carry out a survey on women's health. Look at the information in text C and frame questions with the question-words given here. The first one is done for you.
1 What do you do when you feel ill?
2 At What age .........................................................................................................?
3 When .........................................................................................................?
4 Where .........................................................................................................?
5 Who .........................................................................................................?
6 How much .........................................................................................................?
7 What kind .........................................................................................................?
E Discuss in pairs and then write 2 paragraphs expressing your ideas.
1 What can young people like you do to raise awareness about women's health in your community?
2 What can you do to encourage women to make use of health facilities offered by the state?
Focus:
Skills.
Intensive
reading, speaking, writing.
Functions.
Giving information, making predictions, asking questions.
Grammar/Structure.
Present continuous to express future, question forms.
Vocabulary.
Telling, vulnerable, imperative, life-cycle, evolving, subsequent, impact, inter-generational, unique.