ey 1 @ Appearance and personality Appearance and personality Pa vocasu sy 1 Read the descriptions of three famous film stars. Can you guess who they are? a) She is a pli woman in her fiid)508. She is {mediumnjheight, about 160cm tall. she has jet black shoulder-lenigth hit and she usually wears it in dreadlocks. she has black skin. She has an ial face and small EhUbbY €hEEKS. | think she has a bigW@8@ and surprisingly, doesn’t have eyebrows. She has ful lips with a big smile on her face al the time, She sometimes wears glasses. b) He is an elderly man inhislate 603. He is Stout ‘man. Hes only about 150cm tall. He has never had a foustaehé or beard. He is going bald, He has hair only at the sides of his head and he is completely bald on the top. He has a FOURNFaG8 with chubby cheeks, and has @ small double chin. His lips are in and his nose is rather ordinary. She is iher{eariV)30B. She looks like a model. For most men she is the most attractive woman fon earth, She has a Sli figure with a Slendet waist. She has a [6Vely eOmplexion and shiny, long dark brown straight hair. | think she is quite tall at 173cm. She has an oval face and very eye- catching fUlllip8 which are her “trademark”. She has fiesmerizing/@¥es with long eyelashes, She hhas some tattoos as well. Think of a famous person and describe him/ her to your partner. Your partner has to find out who you are talking about. i 3 Put the Fighlight@d words and expressions in exercise 1 into the correct line. ‘Age: middle-aged, elderly, in his/her 305 nnninnen ‘Build fat, thin, well-built, broad-shouldered, muscular, has a beer gut.. Height: below average, tal, short, rather tall cncnnenrnnnninnnnn Hairstyle and colour: long, short, straight, wavy, culy, in plait, spiky, has highlights, a fringe, in bun, pony-tail,red, fair, blonde, grey, white, dyed, permed.. Face: thin/lona/square, high cheekbones, high forehead, thin ip, long/straight/turned-up/snub nose, pointed chin, wrinkled, freckled, spotty, have bags under one’s eyes (baggy eyes) Eyes: bushy/thick/long eyelashes, thin/bushy eyebrows Complexion: pale, dark, fir Beard styles: unshaven, clean-shaven, sideburns, goatee, StUBBIE mew1 4 Look at the photographs and discuss what they show about the roles of men and women in today’s society. Discuss these questions. 2) What are the different roles in your family? 'b)_ What are the roles of the grandparents in a family? Read about roles in the family in the 19th century and in pairs discuss how the roles of men, women and children have changed over the last 100 years. Ina 19th century family the father was the breadwinner, the head of the family. He was responsible for earning ‘money forthe family. As he was working all day, he took litle parti the family’s dally tives. His wife and children respected and obeyed him. The role of the wife was as important as that of the husband. She was in charge ‘of the whole family. She was running the household, she had to bring up the children and make sure there was always food on the table. She did everything to keep the family together. Doing the housework was ‘much more dificult than nowadays as there were no household devices to make life easier. In some countries, all of a woman's property, even the money she earned, belonged to her husband. Divorce was legal but it was very rare and unimaginable in the 19th century. Children of lower class families had to work. Some children worked in factories; they often worked for more than 12 hours at the age of 13. Children’s work was largely seasonal, o they did have some time to play. How do you think family roles will change over the next decades? d) Ate there any particular changes that you would like to see in men’s and women’s roles? wea You are going to read an article about family roles. Some parts of the text are below. Match them to the text. There are more possible choices given than you need. and discuss their meanings. Possible choices: A) who felt this tension BB) men and women questioned in surveys © accept that thei lives at work D) sharing the workplace family roles are mixed-up F) the change in gender roles rst, read the options Glaltered their lives H) return to the gender roles 1) according to a survey J) take an outside job K) more than half ofall women questioned it's still women2 = Gender equity, does it work? ‘Men and women have declared a cease-fire in the war that took place between the sexes through much ofthe lasthalf ofthe past century.nits pace, they face common new enemies—the stress, lack of timeand financial pressure of modem life. Anew national survey has found that after nearly a generation Of see Tosa. ost men and women agree that increased gender equity is {good for both sexes. They also believe that the strains ofthis relatively new world have made building successful marriages, raising children and leading satisfying lives ever more dificult. _— 0 Latge majorities of more than 4,000 . placed high importance on having a successful mariage and family. At the same time, equally large majorities of working men and women said they felt bad about leaving their children in the care of ‘others, and wished they could spend more time on their families and themselves. Surprisingly, although men and women agreed they should hhave equal work opportunities, and men said they approved of women working outside the home, large majortes ofboth said it would be better if women could instead stay home and just take care ofthe house and children. Most men inthe polls said they were happy to share childcare and domestic chores with wives who work outside the home. Yet fiotsehold| lites remain sharply divided along gender lines, Working mothers sil do twice as much housework as their husbands, and .....3..... expressed at least some dissatisfaction with the amount of help their husbands give around the house. Jobs Change, Chores don’t In just the past three decades, most Americans agree that changing gender roles have dramatically sou. uuu at work and at home. Between 1970 and 1995, the percentage Pt Roles in the family ™ 3 of women who worked outside the home climbed from 50 percent to 76 percent. The percentage of lawyers and Judges who are women doubled. Today, nearly a third of all professional athletes are women. Women currently make up nearly half of all mid-level managers in American corporations, but fewer than 3 percent of all chief executive officers are women. ‘Athome, men do more around the house than their fathers ever did, But the burden still falls on women: on average, working ‘mothers do about 20 hours of housework a week, down from 30 hours two decades ago, while their husbands are doing 10 hours a week, up from § hours. ANd ....-Bresne. WhO Say they/te responsible for the way the house looks. Women still do most of the grocery shopping, laundry, cooking, cleaning, arranging for childcare and babysitters~and taking children ‘0 appointments or after-school activities ~ even when both, parents work full-time, Men tend to mow the lawn, shovel the snow and take out the trash. ‘Age, more than sex, shapes attitudes toward the changing roles of men and women. Younger men and women were far more likely than their elders t0 Say ...u6,...» has made, their lives better, Two out of three men and women agreed that it takes two incomes to get by these days; about half the respondents — men and women — said they work mostly, because they must. One out of every five working women said she would cheerfully quit her job if only she could afford to. Many Americans say that mounting pressures put many relationships on the rocks. In the survey, 7 in 10 said there's too much pressure on both men and women today to realize the American ideal: marriage, family and a successful career. Not surprisingly, those most were more likely to say it's harder to make marriages and families work. No Going Back ‘Many women say it would be betterto......8..... ofthe 1950s. But just as many Americans say they aren't eager to go back = particularly young people, who do not bear the burden oftheir, parents’ nostalgia Young women have many of the same conflicts - over whether to stay home or ......9..... after having children - that theit ‘mothers might have had. But they also believe they are entitled 10 be full participants in areas of life their mothers had to fight, 10 enter, and they assume their personal identity includes a job, ‘or a career, Similarly, young men generally ......10...... andin the home have changed, and with these transformations have. ‘come new duties and responsibilities. Adapted from The Washington Post