新视野大学英语第三版B4U6-Gender Equality教案

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Gender Equality

*Teaching Objectives：

Students will learn to use English to

1. To talk about gender equality

2. To further understand the text

3. To apply the phrases and patterns

4. To master the essay writing skill

*Time Allotment: each unit

8 classes

1st---2nd classes: Part I Warming up

1. Lead-in : Guessing activity

2. Pre-reading activities: Answer the questions

3. Cultural background: Watch the video and fill in the blanks

3rd--4th classes: Part II Text Study

4. Reading in Depth: Structure Analysis, Summary, Difficult sentences analysis

5. Language Focus: More practice in Language Points (language points explanation,

Sentence Patterns, Useful Expressions)

5th—6th classes: Part III Reflection

6. Critical thinking: More speaking practice in discussion related to gender equality

7. Writing Practice: Essay writing

• Write an essay with your personal experiences.

7th—8th classes: Part IV Assignment

7. Post-reading activities: summary of useful expressions, watching and discussing,

speaking task, etc.

8. Section B: Focus on fast reading and practice in reading skill

UNIT 6

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Section A The weight men carry

Part I Warming up

1. Lead-in:

To separate the words:

Which words are always used to describe the men/women?

Men: clean-cut, stylish, sharp, robust, virile

Women: cute, sexy, pretty, delicate, elegant

2. Pre-reading activities:

1) Can you list some jobs for women and some jobs for men?

Women :nurse, teacher, office lady, assistant

Men：soldier, architect, firefighter, mineworker

2) Why is there a difference between men and women in choosing a job?

Tips :Difference:

Men are physically stronger. So they can do some jobs that require physical

strength and power.

Women are more subtle. So they can do some jobs that require carefulness and

patience

3. Cultural Background:

Watch the video and fill in the blanks as the following sentences.

• 1. In 2009, 60 % of graduates from Universities are females in

OECD areas. By 2025 , 70 % of graduates are females in those areas.

• 2. 70 % of education graduates are women, 75% of health and social

science graduates are women. While, 70% of engineering

manufacturing , construction graduates are men.

• 3. On the pay-slip (工资单)，women's pay are always smaller than men’s.

They average are 16 % smaller than men’s.

• 4. In Norway, 40 % of board members are women. In Sweden, France and

Finland, 15-20 % of board members are women. In Germany, Japan,

Netherland , less than 5 % of board members are women.

Part II Text Study

1. Main idea & structure:

Tips for Reading: A Good Reader should

1) Try to become an active reader.

2) Learn to ask more questions. ( what, why, how)

3) Do the efficient reading. (key points, topic sentence, key words, locating

words, necessary and sufficient )

4) Develop a habit of marking during reading.

Answer Questions

1)What types of work did the author see men do in his hometown? (Para. 1)

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From morning to sundown:

they built cabinets, dug ditches, mined coal, or drove trucks;

they trained horses, stocked furnaces, made tires, stood on assembly lines,

welding parts onto refrigerators or lubricating car engines.

In the evenings and on weekends:

they labored equally hard, working on their own small tract of land, fixing

broken-down cars, repairing broken shutters and drafty windows.

2) The bodies of the men I knew were twisted and wounded in ways _visible______

and _invisible_______. (Para. 2)

Visible ways:

Heavy lifting had given many of them spinal problems and appalling injuries.

Racing against conveyor belts had given some ulcersome had broken ribs and lost

fingers.

Their ankles and knees ached from years of standing on concrete.

Some had partial vision loss as the glow of the welding flame damaged their optic

receptors.

Invisible ways:

All around us, the fathers always seemed older than the mothers.

Men wore out sooner, being martyrs of constant work.

3)What did they do when men worked as soldiers? (Para. 3)

Tips:When the shooting started, many of them would die for their patriotism in

fields and forts of foreign outposts. This was what soldiers were for – they were tools

like a wrench, a hammer or a screw.

4)What caused the author to be puzzled after he entered college? (Para. 5)

Tips:The author was puzzled at women’s claim that men enjoy greater joys and more

privileges. This was because he knew from his own experiences that men did much

harder work and suffered much more than women.

5)What kind of examples the author used to defend for men? (Para. 5)

Tips:The right to work five days a week, 12 months a year, for 30 or 40 years,

wedged in tight spaces in the textile mills, or in the coal mines, struggling to extract

every last bit of coal from the rock-hard earth? The right to die in war? The right to

fix every leak in the roof, every gap in the fence? The right to pile banknotes high for

a rich corporation in a city far away? The right to feel, when the lay-off came or the

mines shut down, not only afraid but also ashamed?

6)Why did the author envy women? (Para. 6)

They were interested in art or music or literature, and enjoy a sense of ease.

They did not have to go to war.

The space of their comparatively lightweight work seemed expansive.

• They clipped coupons, went to see neighbors, or ran errands at school or at

church.

7)Why did the women in the author’s college see him as an enemy? (Para. 8)

They were the daughters of privileged, Republican men and they wanted to inherit

their fathers’ power and lordship over the world. They longed for a say over their

future. And because of the author’s sex, as destined from birth to become like their

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fathers, so they see him as an enemy.

8)What kind of role the author wanted to play? (Para. 8)

Tips: The author thinks that the miserable life of the lower class people is similar to

the gender inequality that women suffer from. He supports the fight against social

inequality, no matter whether it is related to class or gender.

Structure Analysis:

Introduction:

Men labored all day and had little free time. (Para. 1)

The bodies of men were twisted and wounded because of hard work. (Para. 2)

Men were soldiers who had to die in war. (Para. 3)

The lives of rich men who had power and privileges seemed remote and unreal.

(Para. 4)

Major arguments and supporting details

Women’s criticism of men was puzzling because men in reality had to work hard

to support their household.(Para. 5)

Women’s grievances were hard to understand because women had an easier life

than men. (Para. 6)

The fates of lower-class men and women are equally bleak and grim. (Para. 7)

Conclusion:

Women have grievances about gender inequality because they don’t know the

hard life of working-class men. (Para.8)

2. Language Focus:

Useful expressions:

1）Off (the ) grid

Not connected to public utilities and having your own power and water supply.

远离公共设施的，自给自足的

我们住在那里远离水电，生活全靠自己。

We lived there off the grid and on our own.

2）There are time when …… sometimes 有时候

有时候我觉得很懒，只想整天呆在床上。

There are times when I feel lazy and just want to stay in bed all day.

3）No more … than… 意为“不能… , 就像不能…一样”。 这个句型表示两件事情都无法做或都不具有某一特征。通常后面的事更明显或更易懂，所以将两件事进行类比，以解释为何第一件事是不可能的或不具有所说的特征。

他无法忘却那段历史，就像他不会忘记自己的名字一样。

He could no more forget about the experience than he could forget his own name.

4）No doubt, had sb. taken a more … (adj.) look/view at sth., sb. would have done sth.

else.

某人对某事的反思

毋庸置疑，如果人类用更具前瞻性的方式审视对大自然的开采，他们就不会遭受资源短缺了。

No doubt, had human beings taken a more prospective view at the exploitation of the

nature, they would have never suffered from resources shortage.

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5）Have a say on /over sth: have the right or opportunity to give your opinion

她们唯一想要的就是对自己的财产有发言权。

The only thing they want is to have a say over their own property.

Essay writing:

Learn how to support an argument with personal experiences and

observations：

In writing an argumentative essay, the author needs to provide specific details to

support his opinion. Personal experiences and observations are a common type of

evidence to support an argument. They often involve the author’s own impressions

about or memories of a person, thing, place, or situation.

Topic:

A better method to overcome pronunciation problems

Introduction:

• Introduce the background: A common method to overcome a pronunciation problem

is to practice reading out the same sound or word over and over.

• State the thesis: A better method to learn English pronunciation is to train the ear

rather than the mouth.

Body:

Explain the main idea with a personal learning experience with the vowels in “shoot”

and “short”.

Conclusion:

Restate that the new method is successful.

Sample essay:

As English learners, many of us have encountered difficulties in learning to

pronounce certain English sounds correctly. The method we commonly use to

overcome the problem is to practice reading out the same sound or word over and

over. However, mere repetition is not an effective method since the core of the

problem may lie in our poor ability to hear the differences between certain sounds.

Hence, to some of us, a better method to learn English pronunciation is to train the ear

rather than the mouth.

You will better understand what I mean once you know what I once went

through years ago. When I first started to learn English back in middle school, I had a

hard time distinguishing between the vowel in “shoot” and that in “short”. I had

thought my mouth and tongue were set in the wrong way, which made me unable to

accurately articulate the two sounds. So I spent lots of time reading out the two

sounds and words containing them. To my frustration, I made little progress.

It was not until I was in college that I realized the real cause of my incorrect

pronunciation was not how I set my mouth and tongue, but rather my poor ability to

hear the differences between the two sounds. I found out this when I watched an

English movie. A character in the movie said “shoot”, but I heard “short”. Then it

suddenly occurred to me that I couldn’t even tell the difference between the two

vowels by ear.

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This discovery gave me a new idea about how to overcome my problem. I

listened to the pronunciation of “shoot” and “short” on audio (录音的) tapes carefully

until I could hear their difference. Then I practiced reading out the two words by

somewhat exaggerating the movement of my mouth. Weeks later, I succeeded in

pronouncing the two sounds correctly. From then on, whenever my friends or

classmates say they have difficulties with a certain sound, I will tell them what I did

with the vowels in “shoot” and “short”. This “ear-training” method proves to be much

better than just practicing reading out sounds or words.

Task: essay writing:

Topic: Life as a single child

Introduction:

• Introduce the background.

• State the thesis.

Body:

Support the main idea with personal experiences.

• The way parents and grandparents treated me

• My feelings of growing up as a single child in the family

Conclusion:

Restate the thesis.

Part III Reflection

Critical Thinking:

1Do you think the men and women you knew when growing up had equal rights?

Why do you think so?

• Yes, I think so. My parents worked in a big state-owned factory, where both men

and women worked at similar positions and earned more or less the same amount of

money.

• No, I do not think so. I grew up in the countryside, where even today men are

dominant in the family. In those days, men had greater power in deciding the

important things, whereas women generally followed what their husband says.

2. Is a woman’s economic status related to her status at home? Why or why not?

Yes, a woman’s economic status is certainly related to her family status. If she

earns the same or even a greater amount of money as her husband, she can have great

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power in making decisions on family issues.

No, a woman’s economic status has nothing to do with how much power and

responsibilities she has at home. Husband and wife should share in housework and

decision-making regardless of who earns more money to support the family.

3. What do you consider as the most important elements of gender equality?

One is mutual respect between the two sexes. This means that men and

women should value each other’s choices and opinions in daily life.

The second is equal rights to participate in the society. In particular, men and

women should have the same opportunities to receive education, to have a job outside

the home, and to have voices heard in politics.

Finally, there should be laws or regulations to guard against gender

discrimination. In this way, gender equality can be ensured through legal resources.

Part IV Assignment

1. Oral reproduction

Debate:

Men or Women Carry More Weight in Life

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Finish the rest exercises in the textbook

Preview Section B

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