Unit 07. Cutural Diversity. Lesson 7. Communication and Cuture

Unit 6:
COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE
Communication
Gender equality in Viet Nam
1. Read the following statements about achievements in addressing gender equality in Viet Nam. Do you want to add any achievements? Tell your partner.
More achievements:
4. Seventy per cent of all public school teachers are women.
5. Forty-nine per cent of lecturers of two-year colleges and forty-three per cent of university lecturers are women.
2.Work in pairs. Talk about achievements in addressing gender equality in Viet Nam, using the statements in 1.
Example:
Student A: I think the Vietnamese government has made considerable progress in gender equality.
Student B: I agree. Seventy-three per cent of Vietnamese women participate in the labour force. No doubt that we have one of the highest rates in the world.
CULTURE
Read the following text about gender equality in the United Kingdom and answer the questions
GENDER EQUALITY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
1. Girls perform better than boys at all levels of education in the United Kingdom.
2. Women make up 47 per cent of the British workforce.
3. Millions of women and girls still experience domestic violence , and the gap in full-time wage between men and women is 10 per cent and most of the people in low-paid jobs are women.