Sex Discrimination

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Task 2: Sex Discrimination

1. True or False Questions.
(1)
Changes are very gradual, actually too slow to come.
(2)
People always believe that women are capable of making decision or have intelligence.
(3)
Applying for a job, women must prove certain elements of her behaviour and skills as men do.
(4)
The law's there because people do stupid things.
(5)
Employers consider women on equal terms with men.
(6)
The first speaker thinks that sex discrimination in language matters much.

2. Fill in the blanks with the information you hear on the tape.
(1) If you
a tree long enough the apple'll
and you can eat it but sometimes you've
and do something.
(2) Because women were
, it was necessary for the law to stop that,
.
(3) If ... that's
, that
the
the discrimination.
(4) You've got to
.
(5) It's also
that you have to tell people not to
murdering other people.

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Task 2: Sex Discrimination

1. True or False Questions.
(1)
Changes are very gradual, actually too slow to come.
(2)
People always believe that women are capable of making decision or have intelligence.
(3)
Applying for a job, women must prove certain elements of her behaviour and skills as men do.
(4)
The law's there because people do stupid things.
(5)
Employers consider women on equal terms with men.
(6)
The first speaker thinks that sex discrimination in language matters much.

2. Fill in the blanks with the information you hear on the tape.
(1) If you
a tree long enough the apple'll
and you can eat it but sometimes you've
and do something.
(2) Because women were
, it was necessary for the law to stop that,
.
(3) If ... that's
, that
the
the discrimination.
(4) You've got to
.
(5) It's also
that you have to tell people not to
murdering other people.