Step 2. Warming up

T: In pairs discuss the six women on Page 1. Which of these women do you think is a great woman ? Give reasons for your choice. Before you decide, think about the following questions.

1. Did she follow her ideas and sacrifice anything so that her ideas could be realized? Did she unselfishly give up anything to achieve her goal?

2. Did she go through struggles and difficulties ?/ Did she suffer for her ideas ?

Name Ambition Problem Sacrifices

Elizabeth Fry to help improve prison conditions She was criticized for neglecting her family and enjoying fame. Less time was spent with her husband and family.

Song Chingling to work for civil rights, democracy and peace. Her relatives held political opinions completely different from hers. After her husband died, she lived alone.

Jane Goodall to work with animals in the wild. She lived a hard life in the wild. She gave up the comforts of life to study the chimps.