EMMA WATSON UN SPEECH
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Vocabulary: Discuss these words with your teacher before you listen to the speech.
- To mobilize (someone)
- An advocate (for something)
- Tangible
- An assumption
- To drop out (of something)
Comprehension – Listen to the speech and answer these questions:
- When was Emma appointed Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women?
- What does she think ‘feminism’ has become synonymous with?
- How did people / her parents describe her when she was 8 (when she wanted to put on plays)?
- Why did her friends drop out of sports’ teams when she was 15?
- Why are women choosing not to identify as feminists?
True or False – Listen to the next part of the speech to see if these statements are true or false:
- Emma feels that men and women should be paid equally?
- Many countries can claim to have achieved equality?
- Emma feels that her life is privileged?
- Statistically, many women in the world are also privileged?
- In 1997, Hilary Clinton made a famous speech in Hong Kong?
- 70 per cent of the audience for Clinton’s speech were men?
VOCABULARY
- Eclipsing
- To constitute
- Stereotypes
- A spectrum
- To take up a mantle
- Vulnerable
- Inadvertent
LISTENING PART TWO
- What does Emma feel about her father’s role as a parent?
- What is the biggest killer of of UK men aged between 20 and 49?
- Does Emma feel that men should always be aggressive?
- What is a “really good question”?
- Edmund Burke said: “All that is needed for the forces of (___) to triumph is for good men and women to do (______).”
- How many girls will be married in the next 16 years as children?
- If things continue, when will all African girls be educated at secondary level?