新编大学英语4Unit3课件

The one who has the last word in any argument.
Man and Woman
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him little. To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
According to the last paragraph, how do boys and girls treat their school work?
Sample
Boys tend to be more independent, analytical or original intellectually. While girls are more dependent on teachers and more concerned with the form and neatness of their work than with its content.
Book 4
Unit Three
Gender Differences
Unit Three
• Task 1: Do you know that? • Task 2: A poem • Task 3: Wives and bread winners • Task 4: Man and woman
Gender Differences
Do you know that?
Scan the differences between men and women. Then work in groups to decide whether the characteristics are
men’s or women’s according to the information you get.
Ideal Wife and Ideal Husband
Directions: Work in pairs and discuss the following questions.
1) From your point of view, what are the characteristics of the ideal wife and the ideal husband?
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1. suffer more illnesses 2. have a higher rate of colorblindness 3. have a larger brain 4. are more likely to have a heart attack 5. have more fears 6. live longer 7. like diamond shapes 8. miss more work
Sample
A man should be masculine. He should be strong and responsible enough to protect women, children and the old in a family and in the society. He cares more about his career and success than his looks. However, a woman should be feminine, tender, considerate and smart. She should spend more time on household affairs, on children and the oldБайду номын сангаасat home.
2) Would the ideal wife and the ideal husband have been different in your parents’ generation and in your grandparents’ generation? If so, how?
Possible characteristics of the ideal husband/wife: Ideal husband 1) tall, handsome and strong 2) capable of supporting a family Ideal wife 1) beautiful and healthy 2) warm-hearted
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men and women? Explain his poem
Man with the head and woman with the heart
in your own words. You may begin your explanation with:
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A Poem
Read the poem by Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) carefully. Work in groups and answer the questions below.
Man for the field and
woman for the hearth (炉边)
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
Women love cats. Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.
man and woman?
Pay $200 for a $100 item needed.
Never worries about the future until gets the other one
Pay $100 for a $200 item not needed.
Worries about the future until gets the other one
Is there any gender-bias in education? If so, what’s the situation? Can you give an example to illustrate it?
Sample
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• In-Class Reading
Gender Roles from a Cultural Perspective
Work in pairs to answer the following questions.
What’s the typical image of a man / woman in traditional mold?
One who makes more money than the other can spend.
The one who says Anything after that is the beginning of a new argument.
One who can find such a person.
Wives Are Bread Winners Watch the interview on Wives Are Bread Winners and answer the following questions with the ideas you get from it.
1. Why is there a high divorce rate in the families which wives earn more?
Man to command and woman to obey; All else confusion.
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His poem tells us that man works in the field while woman should stay at home. Man …
The Princess (1847)
A woman knows all about her children, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
Smart man + smart woman = romance Dumb man + smart woman = affair Dumb man + dumb woman = marriage
Gender Differences
Gender difference is a term used to refer to social characteristic that distinguish men and women. These include such things as differences in hair styles, clothing, family responsibilities, occupational roles, acceptable behavior and other culturally learned activities and traits. All of these differences are linked to the non-biological notions of masculinity and femininity which vary from one culture to another.
2. How do women often feel when they get more for the family?
3. What are masculine and feminine?
Wives Are Bread Winners
Who will do the following things, man or woman? Could you think of similar ones as many as possible about the different personality of