大学英语第四册期末英语口语对话Unit3.docVIP

Unit 3 What’s your understanding of Gender Roles from a Cultural Perspective? A:Why you are so happy today. B:My elder sisters belly have baby,shes pregnant. C:Oh,congratulations.Do you know it will be a girl or a boy? D:Whats the different between boys or girls? E:Recently, for example, a study of American public schools showed that there is a cultural bias in education that favors boys over girls. A: Wow,thats sounded terrible.But I also have heard that the gender bias in the classroom is very serious in America. B: Yes, From nursery school to postgraduate courses, teachers were shown to call on males in class far more than on female students. C: This will greatly affect the development of female students, both in psychological and intellectual.Gender inequality should not be ignore in todays society. D: Yes.Besides, I hear of that some teachers assign homework according to gender. Girls’ tasks are always easy and simple, so, they are have less chances to exercise themselves. E: Another dimension of gender-biased education is the typical American teachers assumption that boys will do better in the hard, masculine subjects of math and science while girls are expected to have better verbal and reading skills. A:I know this.In fact it is not genetic patterns,but these are cultural. In Germany, for example, all studies are considered masculine, and it is girls who develop reading problems. B:But in Japan, where early education appears to be nonsexist, both girls and boys do equally well in reading. C:In this way, we should put much emphasis on the educations in families and then parents can help children to deal with the mental stress they get from school. So we can decrease the danger of getting psychology disease. D: But I don’t think this method can solve the problem of gender bias in the class fundamentally. E: The gender bias depends largely on the teachers conceptual problems. A: Yeah, if we want to solve the problem in original, we must exchange the error opi