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Task 2 LANGUAGE FOCUS: FIGURES OF SPEECH

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II. Compare your answers with a partner.

I. Answer the following questions.

Task 1 READING FOR DETAIL

1. What is the point of Rachel's story?

athat you should not work full-time if you are a woman with children

bthat it can be difficult to combine full-time work and raising a family

cthat women do most of the housework even if they work full-time

2. What does research tell us about the way most men and women share housework?

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3. What information can you find in the text to suggest that governments will never pay people to do housework?

4. Make a list of all the disadvantages and advantages of being a woman mentioned in the text.

5. How do some men try to get out of doing housework?

When writers are using language in a way that goes beyond its normal, literal meaning, they often put these words or expressions in quotation marks (‘. . .'). This indicates that it is a figure of speech, not the normal usage.

Work with a partner. Find these figures of speech in the text and work out what they mean from the context and the words themselves. Then complete the sentences below using one of the words or expressions.

astretched

bthe lions share

cshoulder the main burden

diron out

ewant it both ways

1. Kathy and Jim fought about the housework again. I hope they can _________________ their differences.

2. She's working at two jobs, raising a son, and going to night school. She must feel so _________________________.

3. Julia wants to be successful, and she wants to be a perfect mother. Women like Julia ____________________.

4. In traditional families, the man is expected to __________________ of supporting his wife and children.

5. Mark and Lola decided to switch roles in their marriage. Now she does most of the gardening and repair tasks, and he does ___________________ of the cooking and cleaning.

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