Book 2 Unit 7 Women: Making a difference today
Unit 7 Text A
Woman at the management level女性管理者
(1st ---2nd class-hour)
I. Pre-reading Activities:
1.1 Warm-up questions (15 M)
What‘s the respective role your father and mother in your family?
What‘s your opinion of the traditional family roles/division?
How would you perceive the women‘s role at the management level in the future?
1.2 Words & Expressions checkup (30M)
Check if the students have mastered the new words, which are required to be previewed before class.
1.2.1 New Words
1. flourish: To develop quickly and be successful; to grow well
近义词thrive，bloom 繁荣，兴隆；茂盛
•Few businesses are flourishing in the present economic climate.
•These plants flourish in a damp climate.
•He is alive and flourishing. 他还活着，并且混得不错。
2. harness: If you harness something such a natural source of energy, you
bring it under your control and use it
•利用（自然能源）
•Techniques harnessing the energy of the sun are being developed
•马具
•To harness a horse ( to put a harness on a horse , to attach a horse or other animal)
3. hierarchy: A system of organization in which people or thins have different ranks or positions depending on how important they are.
•They became very conscious of the lack of females in the hierarchy.
•Create, establish ~
•Military~ 军衔制
4. plausible：Apparently reasonable and valid, and truthful =reasonable
•:Such a theory seems very plausible.
• A plausible answer
•Be, seem, sound ~ 可信，好像有理，听起来有理
•Find/judge/think sth. plausible 认为…似乎有理
•Barely, hardly~ 几乎没有道理
•Extremely, highly, terribly~ 非常可信
5. diplomatic: Means relating to diplomacy and diplomats 外交;Be able to say or do things without offending people 有交际手腕的
•The secretary is diplomatic on the telephone.
•We are looking for a peaceful, diplomatic solution.
•Diplomat 外交官
•Foreign diplomat 外国外交官
•Senior diplomat资深外交官
★diplomatically: ad.讲究手腕地；灵活变通地；外交地
You can say it diplomatically and with love by telling your kids the reasons why you had to cancel the plan for a party.你可以灵活她、满怀爱心地告诉你的孩子为什么你不得不取消聚会计划。
6. echo: A sound which is caused when a loud, sharp noise is reflected off a surface 回音; An expression of an attitude or opinion which has already been expressed by someone else 附和，呼应
•Her footsteps echoed in the empty room.
•The gunshot echoed through the forest.
7.concession=compromise:Something that you agree to do or let someone
else do or have, esp. in order to end an argument or conflict.
•Ending the dispute was worth almost any concession.
•Make a concession/concessions to 作出妥协
•Our company has made a concession to them in order to reach a settlement and to continue with business as usual.
