Speaking practice

Do you agree or disagree with the statement ‘Married women should not pursue a career’, using sentences 1-6 as reasons for your agreement or disagreement. Give explanations for each statement.

Summit your audio file

1. Women should stay at home, doing housework and looking after their husbands and children.
2. It is boring and tiring to do housework.
3. Women often become passive and dependent on their husbands.
4. Women will be exhausted if they have to do two jobs: at work and at home.
5. Women usually get less pay than men for doing the same job.
6. Men should share household tasks with their wives.