Unit 9 Gender Differences

Preparation

Step One

when control runs hospital doctor operate

Step Two

Yes, it is possible. The doctor is the boy’s mother

1. How Is It Possible?

2. Difference Between Men and Womencharacteristic:

Suffer more illness

Have a higher rate of colorblindness

Have a large brain

Are more likely to have a heart attack

Have more fears

Live longer

Like diamond shapes

Miss more work

Listening-centered Activity

Listening I

Exercise 1Sample

No, I don’t think so. A person’s IQ is not determined by his or her gender, but rather by his or her education, experience and inherent cause.

Exercise 25, 4, 6, 2, 3

Exercise 31) Recite pause analysis solutions puzzled woman

2) the ending of the story implies that a woman has

an IQ five times that of a man.

Listening II

Exercise 11. At a time

2. Their brain

3. Cope more often with more than one thing/ work

Have babies, look after the babies and take the main

responsibility after home.

4. Personal relationships

5. Please other people

6. Central

Exercise 21.The woman says that men have superficial

conversations about their work and their interests and that they don’t talk about personal feeling.

Yes, I agree. Men seldom talk about their inside feelings because most of them think that they are tough, independent and unwilling to expose their real feelings to others. Besides, they are afraid that woman may laugh at them.

Exercise 22. She said that they talk about football as a way of

communication with each other without saying anything really important.

Yes, I agree that because like women who like talking about fashion, style, clothes, which really does not have much in it, men treat football with the same attitude.

Reading-Centered Activity

Vocabulary

appropriatelyappropriate appropriation

This word is too colloquial in such a formal style.

approveapproval approved

approve of

I don’t approve of careless people.

I really approve of her approaching the problem in

that way.

gender gender---specific gender gap

As to how to answer this question, it is gender---

specific.

goodness Good goody goodish

Nice dinner indeed! The food is good.

Nice dinner indeed!There are so many goodies on

the table.

I don’t really like the dinner, but it is goodish.

He carried quite a goodish things for a boy of his age.

participantparticipation

participative

participatory

She never was willing to participate in any of the

class activities.

call onThe teacher never calls on her to answer questions

(for answers) because she is so timid.

She would call on me occasionally on Sunday when we lived in the same neighborhood hood.

fall behindStudying is like steering a ship against the tide. If

you don’t advance, you will fail behind.

A week’s illness made her fall behind with her study.

put awayPut your clothes away in the wardrobe neatly.

He has recently put away quite a large number of

money in the bank.

take overThe new governor will take over next week.

up toUp to 10 people may attend the final.

She had hope of his coming up to the last moment.

Difficult sentences

1) Over the past few decades, it has been proven innumerable time that the various types of behavior, emotions, and interests that constitute being masculine and feminine are patterned by both heredity and culture.

It has been proven that…

2) The research showed that many teachers who thought they were nonsexist were amazed to see how biased they appeared on videotape.

that many teachers… on videotapes

who thought they were nonsexist

be amazed to do sth.

how biased they appeared on videotapes

Quiz

1. He had a trick ___ maths exercises while listening to music.

A. Of doing B. doing C. to do D. to doing

2. Mom never allowed me to go out alone after she ____.

A.found me B. found me out

C. found D. discovered

3.If I see ___ the door, will you see___ the

windows?

A.to locking, to closing B. Of locking, of closing

C. To lock, to close D. of locking, of

4. They didn’t take weather into ___ when they made the plan.

A. Count B. with C. by D. for

5. What’s the time ___ your watch?

A. On B. with C.by D. for

6. He will certainly be sentenced since he is guilty___financial reasons.

A. for B. with C. of D.about

7. Make sure that coffee is served to the guests___

A. What they like it B. As they like it

C. That they like it D. how they like it

8. If there were no service people, because everyone was ___ to do such work,the professors would have to waste much time doing homework.

A.shamefaced B. ashamed

C. shameless D. shameful