1. Unit 3 Gender Differences Preparation Words Text Exercises

2.  Preparation

3.  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?

4. 2. Difference Between Men and Women characteristic: 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

5. Video  Carol snuck out for a date. So did her brother Ben. But they got different punishment from their dad. How does this happen?

6. Words  aspire aspire  feminine/famine  masculine/muscular  subordinate subordinate  up to up to

7.  Reading-Centered Activity

8. Text 1. Introduction (P1)1 2. There is a cultural bias in education that favors boys over girls. (P2,3,4)234 3. The educational bias begins at home. (P5)5

9. aspire He aspired  after knowledge.  to the highest positions.  to become president.

10. subordinate  adj.  He is working in a subordinate position now.  n.  Don is my superior. He has some other subordinates here.  v.  He subordinated his wishes to the eternal good of the group.

11.  The new governor will take over next week. take over

12. up to  Up to 10 people may attend the final.  She had hope of his coming up to the last moment.

13. Words in The Text  incorporate incorporate  identity identity  take over take over  dimension dimension  reinforce reinforce

14. incorporate  They incorporated his new ideas into their plans.  The new plan incorporates the old one.  I incorporated the new plans with the old ones.

15. identity  n. who or what a particular person or thing is:  Please prove your identity.  identity card  identify v. prove or show the identity of:  I identified that coat at once.  I identified the criminal.  I will identify the 2 tastes.

16. dimension  A line has one dimension and a square has 2 dimensions.  dimensions (=size)  A box of large dimensions.  The dimensions of this difficulty have only recently been recognized.  dimensional adj.  A 3-dimensional cinema film is one that seems to have depth as well as breadth and height.

17. reinforce  to reinforce a coat by sewing pieces of leather on the elbows.  to reinforce an argument with facts  to reinforce an army

18. P1  What might be the reasons for human behavior, emotions and interests? Gender roles are learned  directly  indirectly

19. P2  What did a study of American public schools show?  What kind of students are more likely to have higher achievements?

20. P3  What does the research by the Sadkers show?

21. P4  What is the meaning of “self-fulfilling prophecy”?  What is the self-fulfilling prophecy in this paragraph?

22. P5  When did this sex-biased education begin?  What would a teacher probably expect from a girl?

23. Discussion Questions  Is this biased attitude fair?  Do you have any suggestions to change this situation?

24. Difficult Sentences

25. 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 pattered by both heredity and culture.  在此句中， it 是形式主语，真正的主语是 that 引导的从句。

26. As a matter of fact, in the late 1960s, when many of the best all-women’s colleges in the northeastern United States opened their doors to male students…  All-women’s college 是只有女学生的大学。 在美国，女子大学通常是私立大学。男 女生不分校的大学被称为 co-educational, 或者 co-ed 。

27. …girls are filled with fears of the world outside the home and with the desire to be approved of for their “goodness” and obedience to rules.  “approve of sb./sth” 意思是 “ 赞许，认为很 好，可以接受，或者令人满意 ” 。  “with the desire to be approved of” 意思是 “ 女孩子希望别人会认可她们 ” 。  “for their ‘goodness’ and obedience to rules” 中的 for 指出认可她们的原因。

28. These lessons carry over from the home to the classroom, where girls are generally observed to be more dependent on the teacher, more concerned with the form and neatness of their work than with its content, and more anxious about being “right” in their answers than in being intellectually independent, analytical, or original.  where…or original 是非限制性定语从句， 修饰前面主语中的名词 classroom 。  be concerned with 意为关注，注重。  original 意为原创的，有创意的。

29. The End