unit 3 北京林业大学外语学院龚锐 gender differences 《新编大学英语》 book 4...

Unit 3

北京林业大学外语学院龚锐

Gender Differences

《新编大学英语》

Book 4

外研社全国高等学校大学英语教学研修班

Unit Overview1

Demo Class2

Unit 3 Gender Differences

•Introduction•Teaching objectives•Teaching plan


Unit Overview

Introduction Subjects: the sophomore of non-English major Teaching materials:

• New College English (2nd Edition) Book 4• Unit 3 Gender Difference

In-class Reading Passage: Gender Roles from a Cultural Perspective


Unit Overview Teaching objectives

1. To help students learn expressions to describe the differences between men and women on physique, personality and traditional roles in family and society;

2. To help students understand the main idea and the structure of the text;

3. To help students learn difficult words and expressions in the text;

4. To foster students’ ability to use synonyms in writing English essays ;

5. To help students understand gender differences more comprehensively and critically, encouraging them to output in the form of oral and written English.


Unit OverviewTeaching plan (50’)

1. Warming-up (8’)

2. Text Analysis (15’)

3. Language Focus (10’)

4. Writing Skills (10’)

5. Critical Thinking—Discussion (5’)

6. Assignment (2’)


Demo class

1. Warming-up (8’)1. Lead-in: video clip

2. Group work: discuss the differences between men and women from the following 3 aspects:a) physique/appearance

b) Personality

c) traditional roles at home and in society


Physique/Appearance

Comparison between men and women

Men Women

strong

muscular

tough

athletic

gorgeous

dazzling

breathtaking

angelic

elegant

graceful


3. Question: what have determined the gender differences?

Genes and culture Gender Roles from a Cultural Perspective


Demo class2. Text Analysis (15’)

1. Introduce the typical structure of English argumentative essay

2. Skimming and scanning

3. Check answers and explain how the author elaborates the argument


3: Language Focus (10’) Over the past few decades, it has been proven

innumerable times that the various types of behavior, emotions, and interests that constitute being masculine and feminine are patterned by both heredity and culture.


Demo class

Demo classinnumerable in - num(er) - able

“can not be counted”in-calcul-ablein-cred-iblein-visi-ble

not“incomplete

”

number, count“numerical”, ”numerous”

can be“affordable”

“too many to be counted”

Language Points


Over the past few decades, it has been proven innumerable times that the various types of behavior, emotions, and interests

that constitute being masculine and feminine are patterned by both heredity and culture.

Over the past few decades, it has been proven many times that different types of behavior, emotions and interests of men and women are influenced by both genes and culture. Those different types of behavior, emotions and interests determine our typical male and female characteristics.

在过去的几十年里，已经无数次地证实了这样一个事实：构成男

子阳刚之气和女子阴柔之美的各种行为模式、情感和兴趣既是遗传又是文化熏陶的结果。

Paraphrase

Translation

Demo class


4: Writing skills (10’)1. Ask students to go over the passage and find out

two groups of synonyms for “many” and “unconscious”. a) many: innumerable, hundreds of, millions of …

b) unconscious: unconsciously, unintentionally, unknowingly, indirectly…

2. Why? • To avoid repetition and achieve diversity of language

3. Present more examples


5. Critical Thinking—Discussion (5’) Discuss the topic: Gender Inequality in Employment

of College Graduates. List the reasons why there exists discrimination

against girls in job markets


Output- driven activity

in oral form

6. Assignment (2’) Write an essay entitled Gender Inequality in

Employment of College Graduates Structure of English argumentative essay + Writing

skills + Discussion

Output- driven activity in

written form

Conclusion : Society reinforces its established values and turns out each sex in its traditional mold.

Argument: Different gender roles are mainly patterned by the culture. (Para. 1)

Support: cultural bias in education that favors over (Para. 2-5)

At school At home

1. Call on male students more than girls

2. Assign different tasks according to stereotyped gender roles.

3. Sex-biased assumption

1. Different degrees of freedom? Example 1

? Example 2

? Example 3

2. Develop different qualities

? Example 1

? Example 2

The EndThank you !

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