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Shilpi Somaya Gowda (C1)

A – Before you start

 Answer the questions with a partner.

1. Does gender discrimination exist in your country?

2. If so, what form does it take? What are the causes? Is anything being done to combat it?3. What do you know about discrimination against women in the Midde !ast and "sia?

#. $a%e you read &hi'i &omaya (owda)s no%e Secret Daughter ?

*. If not, what do you think it)s about, +udging from the tite?

 

B – Listen and answer

 Read these statements. Then listen (without reading) and choose the correct answer.

1. &hi'i &omaya (owda

a was born in India and raised in -anada.

 b was born in -anada and now i%es in the &".

c was born in -anada and brought u' in the &".

2. $er no%e Secret Daughter  is set ina India. b the &". c both these countries.

3. /he estimated figure of 100 miion uoted in the nited ations re'ort refers to the number of

a unwanted baby daughters kied or abandoned at birth in the ast *0 years.

 b femaes that ha%e been kied in the ast 1* years.

c girs and women that ha%e gone missing in the ast *0 years.

#. &hi'i)s Indian reations

a are weoff and fairy educated.

 b are highy educated citydweers.

c i%e in a 'oor rura area.

*. (ender discrimination %aries in different 'arts of India.a /rue. b 4ase. c /he artice doesn)t say.

5. Indian women ha%e %ery itte 'ower within the famiy.

a /rue. b 4ase. c /he artice doesn)t say.

C – Read and answer

 Read the article and answer the questions.

1. What information does the artice gi%e you about the 'ot of the no%e Secret Daughter.

2. In what areas of Indian society does &hi'i suggest gender discrimination is strongest?

3. What extreme forms does discrimination sometimes take?

#. When did &hi'i earn about these 'ractices?

*. What idea ins'ired &hi'i to write the no%e?5. Why is Indira (handi mentioned in the inter%iew?

D – Learn it! se it!

Complete these sentences with words from the glossary. (You may hae to adapt the e!pression in

 some way" e.g. change the su#$ect% or change from singular to plural.)

1. We decorated the garden with cooured ights to 6666666 the mood for the 'arty.

2. /he student)s re'ort was criticised because it didn)t 6666666 the sources of the data.

3. /he soution he 'ut forward isn)t ikey to get to the 6666666 of the 'robem.

#. /om became 6666666 that his ifestye was ruining his heath.

*. /he stone cottage is in a beautifu 6666666 in the Wesh mountains.

5. When 7ing -hares II of !ngand married the 8ortuguese 8rincess, -atherine of 9ragan:a, herecei%ed the cities of Mumbai and /angier as her 6666666 .

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– Ready for CA" (#aper $% se of n&lish' #art )

Thin& of one word only which can #e used appropriately in all three sentences.

1. /he man went to the 'oice station and 6666666 he had been robbed of his waet.

;ean 6666666 damages against her oca su'ermarket after si''ing on a wet foor.

" serious motorway accident 6666666 fi%e i%es ast night.

2. It)s ten 'ast nine.

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AnswersB – Listen and answer

1. b 2. c 3. c #. a *. a 5. b

C – Read and answer

1. It)s about an unwanted baby gir who is abandoned at an or'hanage in Mumbai and is ado'ted by

a cou'e i%ing in &an 4rancisco. /he 'ot re%o%es around how the gir)s ife chances are changed by her ha%ing the same o''ortunities as anyone who is brought u' in the West. 2. In 'oor,

uneducated, rura societies. 3. 7iing unwanted baby daughters, murdering wi%es for their dowry,

and forcing widows to commit suicide. #. &he says she has aways been aware of them. *. /he

idea that among the baby girs kied at birth, there was 'robaby someone destined to become a

great eader, a great scientist, or a great artist. 5. &he)s mentioned as an exam'e of the

contradictions to be found in India where, des'ite strong gender discrimination, a woman was abe

to hod the office of 'rime minister for many years.

D – Learn it! se it!

1. set 2. uote 3. root #. aware *. setting 5. dowry

– Ready for CA"

1. caimed 2. missing 3. sa%ed #. run *. 'osed