Unit 4 Genders(讲稿)

Unit 4 Genders

Teaching Steps:

Part 1 Lead-in

Part 2 Watching & Listening

Part 3 Movie Appreciation

Part 4 Tasks for Cooperative Groups of Oral English

Teaching Objectives

In this unit, students are going to watch and listen to some news reports, news stories and interviews. Through doing a series of tasks, they will

grasp the main ideas of the passages about genders;

identify the detailed information from the passages / video clips;

get to know some differences between men and women.

Part 1 Lead-in

Difference between men and women

Task1. Fill in the blanks with “a man” or “a woman”, “women” or “men”.

Task 2 Answer some questions.

Part 2 Watching & Listening

Section A

Directions: In this section, you are going to listen to the pa ssage “Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus”. Read the following words and phrase aloud first and then finish the tasks below.

Word Bank:

1.beat节拍

2. assess评定

3. He proudly puts on his Mr. Fix It cap. 他拿出非他不行的架势(他是解决问题的大师）

4. empathy 共鸣

5. persist 坚持、固执6、nurture 培育、培植

Task 1.Listen to the passage “Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus” and answer the following questions..

1. What do women most frequently complain about men?

2. What does a woman usually want from a man? What does he think she wants?

3.What do men most frequently complain about women ?

4.What does the woman think she is doing ?

5. What does the man think she is doing? What does he want?

Task 2. Listen to the passage “Men are from Mars and Women are from

Venus” again and decide whether the following are true or false.

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1.The husband always offers his wife a solution.

2. The husband will not listen to his wife unless she tells him many times.

3.When a woman loves a man, she tries to improve the way he does things.

4. The husband is reluctant to get his wife’s help.

Section B Watch the video c lip “Gender and Math” and fill in the blanks.

Word Bank:

1.ingrained 根深蒂固的

2.psyche精神，灵魂

3.text（用手机）给…发短信

4.aggressively积极进取地

5.geek 呆子

6.get in on 参加

Background Information:

1. SAT (美国学术能力评估考试): SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test) is a standardized test for college admissions in the United States. The SAT is owned, published, and developed by the College Board, a non-profit organization in the United States, and was once developed, published, and scored by the Educational Testing Service.

2. New Jersey Institute of Technology (新泽西理工学院): New Jersey

Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a public research university in Newark, New Jersey. NJIT offers 100 degree programs in 27 undergraduate majors and 30 graduate specialties.

Task 1: Watch the video clip “Gender and Math”and fill in the blanks while listening .

Many teachers and parents have said it-it is (1)_______of a thought

ingrained in the American (2)________that the boys are better than girls at mathematics. But is it true? The(3) ______of women mathematicians, engineers and (4)_________has often been cited as (5)_______of differences in sexes in math （6)__________. But today a team of （7）——————writing on the journal Science says the（8) —————

wisdom is （9）————— wrong. With our （10）————look here is ABC’s Ned Potter.

Task 2 Watch the video clip “Gender and Math”again and then some questions will be asked about it. Choose the best answer to each question from the four choices given below.

1. How many points did girls lag behind their boy counterparts on the SAT college entrance exam 15 years ago?

A) 5 points. B) 14 points.

C) 15 points. D) 19 points.

2. What is Romone’s attitude towards mathematics?

A) She hates mathematics because she is not good at it.

B) She has to learn mathematics because it is required.

C) She loves mathematics because it seems natural to her.

D) She likes to learn mathematics because it is interesting.

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3. According to the video clip, why has the gap between girls and boys in math performance disappeared in recent years?

A) Because girls are smarter than they used to be.

B) Because girls are encouraged to learn some science subjects.

C) Because boys are not so diligent as girls now.

D)Because more and more girls have opportunities to receive education.

Section C:

Directions: In this section, you are going to listen to a dialogue “Who is better at remembering details of people’s appearances, women or men”. Read the following words and phrase aloud first and then finish the tasks below.

Word Bank

1.hands down 轻而易举，毫无疑问

2.judgemental 判断的

3.surpass 超越，胜过

4.interpersonal 人与人之间的，人际关系的

5.venture 冒险行事

6.hypothesis假设

7.distinguishable 可区别的，可辨别的

8.memorable 值得纪念的，难忘的

Task 1 Please listen to a dialogue “Who is better at remembering details of people’s appearances, women or men” and tick the words mentioned .

1.judgemental；

2.influence;

3. sensitivity;

4.nonverbal；

5.efficiency;

6.difference;

7.personality；

8.similarity;

9.interactions；10.effectively；

11.venture；12.heavily; 13.diversity；14.distinguishable；15.memorable

Task 2 Please listen to a dialogue “Who is better at remembering details of people’s appearances, women or men” again and then complete the following sentences.

1.You pick on（挑选）the tiniest details of a person's clothing, or hair, or whatever, details________________________________________.

2.___________________________________ at remembering details of people’s appearances.

3.We all rely on such details____________________________________.

4.Perhaps what is most surprising is that ________________________between how well men and women remember details of appearance.

5.Men and women both are better at________________________________________________.

Part 3 Movie Appreciation

Direction: Watch the video clip Desperate Housewives and tell me what the clip is about.

Part 4 Tasks for Cooperative Groups of Oral English

1.The difference in thinking he behavior between men and women.

2.The misunderstandings between men and women and ways to solve them.

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