4th year

June 27th

Gender violence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L6HB97lbrQ

Have you ever:

... felt afraid of your partner?

... felt as though the boundaries keep shifting?

... felt as though you can never do the right thing?

... felt guilty for something you have not done.

... changed your social engagements because of your partner?

... wished he/she would change and be nicer to you?

... spend more time thinking of what your partner wants than what you do?

Has your partner ever:

... got jealous easily, even without reason?

... nagged or belittle you frequently?

... wanted to know where you have been and what you have been doing?

... threatened to hurt himself or the children if you don't comply?

... just seemed to totally ignore you for hours or days?

... insisted on having sex even if you don't really want to?

... embarrassed you in front of friends or family?

... belittled your accomplishments or trash your ideas?

Activity 2

1- Define “violence”
2- Define violence against women in your own words. Discuss answers with the group.

3- Does violence against women and girls occur in only some countries, or affect only
certain groups of women?

4- Can you mention any examples you have heard or read about?

5- What are, in your opinion, the causes of violence against women?

6- Violence against women includes, among others, violence in the family, at work and in
the community, and in armed conflicts. How many instancies do you know?

You will listen and fill gaps with words in the box.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olIF1x3DkOw&index=11&list=PLaX3xxh7v_WP7uBNHWN
E49XuvdZItVUPL

Complete the song.

In the dark Lyrics

Don’t let the………. shine on my face, I’ll

Just ……………here in the dark

Aches stand hurt love Sorry
Don’t let the light shine on my face, I´ll
look back hide dark light face
just stand here in the ………...

My body……….., I took as much as I can

Take I’ve got to get away.

Don’t let the light shine on my ……….., I’ll

Just stand here in the dark

Don’t let the light shine on my face, I´ll

just stand here in the dark.

To………… me is to……….. me, don´t say your

……………. … I’m going to get away

Ohhhhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhhh I’m going to

get away ohhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

you no longer can do whatever you choose

it’s no longer a threat it’s a fact

I’m leavin’ you and I’ll never ……………….

Don’t let the light shine on my face, I’ll

Just stand here in the dark

Don’t let the light shine on my face, I´ll

just stand here in the dark.

I’ll just ……….. here in the dark, I’ll just sit

Here in the dark, I just stay here in the dark.

Ohhhhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I’ll just stand here in the dark, I’ll just hide

Here in the dark, I’ll just here in the dark.

Questions:

1- What is the main theme of the song? How did you feel while watching it?

2. What other issues are shown in the video.

Before you read:

Think of the difficulties you might run up against when nobody helps you if you or
somebody in your family were battered.

Anticipation:

You are going to read about celebrities who have spoken about their experience of
domestic abuse.

Mariah Carey
Rihanna Alice Liveing
In her early twenties,
Rihanna was famously Fitness influencer Alice Living
Mariah Carey was married
photographed in 2009 with (formerly Clean Eating Alice)
to record label boss
black eyes and a bruised and suffered an emotionally and
Tommy Mottola, who was
bloody face after her then- physically abusive relationship
twenty years her senior.
boyfriend, singer Chris
Brown, assaulted her in his
car and left her on the side of
the street. Years later, in
November 2015, Rihanna
addressed the violence and
her subsequent label as a "a
poster child for victims of
domestic abuse" in an
interview with Vanity Fair.
"A lot of women, a lot of
young girls, are still going
through it. A lot of young
boys too. It's not a subject to
sweep under the rug, so I
can't just dismiss it like it
wasn't anything, or I don't
take it seriously," Rihanna
said in the cover interview.
"But, for me, and anyone
who's been a victim of
domestic abuse, nobody
wants to even remember it.
Nobody even wants to admit
it. So to talk about it and say
it once, much less 200 times,
is like… I have to be punished
for it? It didn't sit well with
me."
The pair split after four at the hands of her first
years together, but almost boyfriend, when she was just
two decades later on her 16. Speaking to Cosmopolitan
TV programme Mariah’s UK, she explained how the
World, the singer alleged impact of the emotional abuse
suffering coercive control ended up affecting her for
at the hands of her former longer than the physical abuse.
husband.
"Everyone knows that
"I was with someone at punching someone isn’t okay,
the time that had a lot of but it’s the emotional stuff
control over my life," she that is a lot harder to
said. "He was older than rationalise not being your
me by a lot and had a lot fault," she said.
of power and he wanted
me to remain away from
most people.
"I never thought I would
get out of there."

WHILE READING

Student will underline present perfect sentences

AFTER READING

Write someone story that they have heard or lived.

Plan a campaign to encourage healthy, will make posters.

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/g22773900/celebrities-domestic-abuse-violent-
relationships/