Topic

THE WAY YOU THINK, THE WAY YOU ACT!

Introduction

These activities were created with the main purpose to compare and to reflect about the differences and similarities that men and women have in a general context and also comparing their own similarities and differences as people from Chiapas.

Objectives Communicative: At the end of this unit, Students

will be able to talk about psychological differences of each gender.

Linguistics: Students will use their active vocabulary and will remember his /her passive vocabulary in order to accomplish the activities. The student will make use of the different tenses.

Socio-cultural: During the Unit, the Students will learn , discus, and reflect about the differences of each gender.

Material: Videos, Texts, Pictures, Skype, audios, blogs, e-mail.

Background: The student already have vocabulary enough , grammatical structures and the skills needed in order to accomplish the activities.

Student´s Support

*Student´s English level : A2 *Age: 18 – 22 years old.*Previous hours: 180 – 200 hrs.*Skills to develop : 4 Integrated skills*Competences: Cultural , Linguistics ,

Communicative competences.*Evaluation: The Teacher will grade each

activity after they were done.*Kind of approach: Conductual and

costructivist.

Teacher´s Support

To encourage students to reflect on the importance of each way of thinking, depending the gender.

To learn about some psychological differences between men and women.

To compare and reflect about this topic focusing also in their immediate context: Chiapas.

THE WAY YOU THINK, THE WAY YOU ACT!

INTRO. Look at the video and then answer the following questions; write it on http://www.nicenet.net/ICA/class/home.cfm.

1.- What is the video about? a) It is about a party. b) It is about differences between man a woman. c) It is about differences between a man and his friend.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3f3V6X4Ez4

Activity number 1. Everybody is different, but when we talk about genders the things change; the differences get bigger and bigger and nobody understands anything. Look at the following pictures, What´s going on in each one? Think about it.

Activity 1.1 After you have looked at the pictures presented before, complete the following chart in which you express 5 differences between men and women that you consider important, taking into account your context (Chiapas). Answer on http://www.nicenet.net/ICA/class/home.cfm

Example:1.- Men are less talk active 1.- Women are more sensitive

Men Women

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2.- 2.-

3.- 3.-

4.- 4.-

5.- 5.-

Activity number 2: Listening activity: Now you will hear and watch a video where a man and a woman talk about their differences. Pay attention and then answer the following questions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL_Jb38IcuU&feature=related

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Activity number 2.- Now you have 6 sentences in which there are some sentences extracted from the Audio. Read them and put the correct number in the correct figure. Answer on http://www.nicenet.net/ICA/class/home.cfmYou can watch the audio again.

1.- They have better coordination of hands and eyes.2.- They are less tolerant to noise.3.- They like sedentary type of games.4.- They are more wakeful and actives.5.- they like to communicate with others and speak earlier.6.-They often forget the names of playmates.

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Activity number 3: Listening & Speaking !!!! Do you think that the place in which you live (Chiapas) affect the way women and men act or think?Get into the Skype and talk about that with your partners.

Activity number 4: Speaking. You have already listened about the different point of view respecting to the physicological differences between a man a woman from your State. Now, What do you think about that? Is it true? Is it false? What can you tell about this situation?

Make a recording of about 3 minutes in which you answer this questions, send the file recording to the Facebook account.

Activity number 5: Read the following Text, after that, answer the following exercises. The text will be uploaded in a PDF format on the Facebook account that the Class already have.

Activity number 6: AFTER YOU READ. Write true (T) or false (F) in each sentence depending the Reading. Answer on the page: http://www.nicenet.net/ICA/class/home.cfm

1.- Men tend to process better in the right hemisphere of the brain while women tend to process in the left hemisphere. ________

2.- Women have a more difficult time understanding emotions that are not explicitly verbalized. _________

3.- Women have a larger deep limbic system which allows them to be more in touch with their feelings and better able to express them. _______

4.- Men approach problem-solving from a task-oriented perspective. ________

Activity number 7: What do you think about the psychological differences that men and women have with each other? Have you had some troubles related to this?

Write a Paragraph (60-80 words) where you explain some impressions that you have about what you have learned in this unit. Some positive and negative points related to the topic. Send it to the Teacher´s mail.