新标准大学英语4unit5Active Reading 2.ppt

Learning about gender stereotype Learning to evaluate the text by leitmotif Gender stereotype Read a definition of stereotype and complete the boxes. Gender stereotype Gender stereotype A poem Read a poem written by Alfred Tennyson. Discuss whether you agree with it and then translate it into Chinese. A poem 1. 男耕女织，男武女文， 男刚女柔，男尊女卑。 2. 男人耕作女持家；男上战场女纺纱。 男人冷静女优柔；男施命令女听话。 3. 男人主外女主内，男人舞剑女缝衣， 男人理智女多情，男人吆喝女相随。 4.男持外，女主内， 男打仗，女制衣。 男有脑，女有心， 男发令，女执行。 A poem 5. 男人是大地的主宰，女人是家庭的皇帝， 男人用利剑打天下，女人用利针守家门， 男人用脑征服女人，女人用心征服男人， 男人惯于命令女人，女人习惯服从男人。 Gender stereotype Adam and Eve Listen to a recording about how Adam and Eve were made and punished for their sin. Adam and Eve 1. How was the man made? He was made from the dust of the ground. 2. Why was the woman created and why was she  called woman? A helper suitable for the man. She was made out of a rib taken out of the man. Adam and Eve Adam and Eve To the woman he said, “I will greatly ________ your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your _______ will be for your husband, and he will _____ over you.” To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I ______________ you, saying, You shall not eat of it, cursed is the ________ for your sake. In ______ you will eat of it all the days of your life. Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. By the _____ of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are ______, and to dust you shall return.” Sexism in language Work in groups to collect examples to show sexism in English and Chinese language. Sexism in language Sexism in language 3. Women are ignorant. Eg: Long hair and short wit. 头发长，见识短。 女子无才便是德。 妇人之见。 男子汉不同妇人一般见识。 4. Women are evil. Eg: 天下最毒妇人心. 唯女子小人难养. 红颜祸水. It’s time he made an honest woman out of you. Chinese characters denoting negative qualities that