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1、Welcome to Cherrys workshop,Professions for Women,By Virginia Woolf,Welcome to Cherrys workshop,Warming up exercise: listening,Women and Work: we did it! The rich worlds quiet revolution: women are gradually taking over the workplace,Welcome to Cherrys workshop,What will happen within the next few m
2、onths?What already happened before?What is the biggest social change in our times?What were the obstacles for working women a generation ago?What were women expected to do when getting married or having children?,Welcome to Cherrys workshop,Women now run the companies that once treated them as_Can y
3、ou give some examples of countries that still resist the trend of woman liberation? What is the cost for doing so?How do most men react to womens employment?What are the two stings accompanied womens employment?,Welcome to Cherrys workshop,Tell the percentage of women bosses in largest companies in
4、GB and USADo men and women get paid the same if they are doing the same work?What is the biggest trouble for married women? Why?What do middle class families complain?What kind of family is the biggest loser?,Welcome to Cherrys workshop,Essay structure,Part One: par1 Introduction,“ I might tell you
5、something about my own professional experiences.”,Part Two: para 2-6 Development,Introduction: para 2,development: para 3-5,summary: paragraph 6,How I began my writing career,Experience one: para 3,Experience two : para4-5,“killing the Angel in the house was part of the occupation of a woman writer”
6、,“This I believe to be a very common experience with women writers they are impeded by the extreme conventionality of the other sex,Part Three: para 7 Open Conclusion,Besides talking about difficulties in “my” experiences, and trying to solve them, a professional woman must always think about the ai
7、m of her struggle,Welcome to Cherrys workshop,Close Reading of the Text,Welcome to Cherrys workshop,The introduction paragraph actually includes two meanings. One is about “I”have no experiences, the other is about literature as a womans profession. Can you figure it out?,Idea understanding Part I,W
8、elcome to Cherrys workshop,Idea understanding Part I,What does Woolf mean when she says “there were very few material obstacles in my way”?She probably means that thanks to the women writers before her, she has no visible or physical difficulty in writing. If I want to write, I can.But that does not
9、 mean she has no obstacles at all, as we will see later.,Welcome to Cherrys workshop,Idea understanding Part I,what kind of occupation is writing according to Woolf? why?Writing is a reputable and harmless occupation, because it will not disturb the normal family life and because it does not need mu
10、ch money to keep it go.Why did women first succeed as writers? Do you agree?,Welcome to Cherrys workshop,Sentence comprehension Part I,what professional experience have I had? a rhetorical question, which the speaker does not expect the audience to answer, and it means I have no experiencemy profess
11、ion is literaturethat are peculiar to women.In the profession of literature, there are few new adventures belonging to women alone, because many women have written literature up to now. But the profession of drama is an exception in that drama has been open to women even earlier than literature.,Wel
12、come to Cherrys workshop,Sentence comprehension Part I,No demand was made upon the family purse.there was no need to spend much of the family money in order to write.Purse: moneyMetonymy: the name of one thing is used in place of that of another associated with or suggested by it 转喻e.g. He succeeded
13、 by the sweat of his brow. A pen is mightier than a sword,Welcome to Cherrys workshop,Sentence comprehension Part I,Pianos and models, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, masters and mistresses, are not needed by a writer. If you want to be a musician or a painter, you must own a piano or hire models, and you
14、 have to visit or even live in cultural centers like Paris, Vienna and Berlin. And also you have to be taught by masters and mistresses. However, if you want to be writer, you dont need all these.,Welcome to Cherrys workshop,Idea understanding (Para.2,How did Woolf begin her professional career?She
15、happened to post one of her writings to a journal and soon she got a check for the editor decided to use it. This check marked her career of a professional writer. What did she do with this check? What is implied in how she had done with the check? she did not spend the money in a serious way. In ot
16、her words, Woolf is not that professional after all. She does not depend on the income of her writing to make a living, as the real professional woman does.,Welcome to Cherrys workshop,Idea understanding (Development One),Divide this long paragraph into four parts by what happened when “I”write, who
17、 is she, what did she do, what did I do and why, and the final outcome.,Welcome to Cherrys workshop,Does Woolf agree on the first sentence in par 3? what Is Woolfs first article about? Is it easy?considering the task of a girl writing to comment a famous man, it cannot be easy at all.What do “I” have to do battle with during the writing process?I do battle with the phantom of the Angel in the HouseWhat is “the phantom” and what is the “Angel in the House”?,
