Lekcja szkolna języka angielskiego dla srednio-zaawansowanych. International Women's Day celebrates the achievements of woman around the world and reminds us to work together to make changes for women.

International Women's Day was celebrated for the first time 19th March 1911 in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.

Women asked for the right to vote and to work in public places and the right to work.

Russian women took part in their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February. In other parts of Europe it was on or around 8 March 1915.

The United Nations held an International Women's Day in 1975 and has since celebrated International Women's Day on 8 March.

The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was started in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst. She wanted to make people aware of women's right by campaigning, in particular the right to vote.

Vocabulary:

celebrate - świętować, czcić, obchodzić

achievement - osiągnięcie, realizacja, spełnienie

achievement+s = liczba mnoga

ask for - poprosić

the right to vote - prawo do głosowania

take took taken - wziąć

part - udział

in other - w innych

hold held held - trzymać

since - od, odkąd, odtąd, od tego czasu, od tej pory

aware - świadomy, świadoma

campaign - kampania, akcja

particular - szczególny, konkretny

As well as not being allowed to vote, many girls didn't have an education in the 19th century. Richer girls and boys were taught at home or went to private schools.

In the first half on the nineteent century, not many children went to school. This was because their parents were too poor, the children were too weak or ill, or because they worked full-time to help support their families.

Today, all British citizens over the age of eighteen have the right to vote. The campaigners of the 19th and early 20th century struggled against parliament and the public to get the vote for entire British population in 1928.

By 1911 in the UK, nearly all girls aged 14-18 were worked in full-time employment. 35% were servants, 16% worked in the cotton industry in factories and 19% in the dress trade (sewing clothes). Today in Britain, nearly every girl or boy up to the age of 16 is in full-time education.

Around the world, 67 million children don't go to school. More than half are girls. Only 58% of girls are in secondary education. The biggest difference between boys and girls going to school is in Africa.

Vocabulary:

as well as - bo, ponieważ, jak również, także

be allowed - dopuszczać, pozwalać na..

rich - bogaty

rich richer the richest - bogaty bogatszy najbogatszy

richer - bogatszy

teach taught taught - uczyć kogoś

be was were been - być

were taught - były uczone

poor poorer the pootest - biedny biedniejszy najbiedniejszy

too - za, zbyt, też

were too poor - byli zbyt biedni

weak - słaby

the children were too weak - dzieci były za słabe

support - popierać, podtrzymywać, utrzymywać / podpora, wsparcie, poprarcie

all British citizens - wszyscy brytyjscy obywatele

struggle - walczyć, zmagać się / walka, bójka

against - przeciw, przeciwko

entire - cały

entirely - zupełnie, całkiem

nearly - prawie, blisko

servant - służący, sługa

servants - liczba mnoga plural

sewing clothes - szycie odzieży, ubrań

sew sewed sewn/sewed - szyć

around - dookoła, około, wokół, naokoło

the bigest difference - największa różnica