2. YingYing Yousff
Ahmed Hibatullah
Martin Khaled
Salim Omar Saeed
Xun Bayan
Dina Sarah Zainab
Almishaal
Zhicheng Medhat
Moha
mmed
Abdulla Hala
Rahmah Amal
Maryam Zainab
3. Vanny Sunny
Maad Mona Abdulla
Chao Ann
Salim Hassan Maryam
Yi-Chin Abdullah
Riyad
h
Malek Ananda
Chia Mohammed
Ahmed Kholood Ai-Hsing
4. • Pathways, chapter 1
• Gender and Society (concepts and vocabulary)
• Introduction to Conversation Starter assignment
5. • Read through the topics and skills from pages iv-vii.
• From the “scope and sequence” pages, what topics and
skills are you particularly interested in?
• Share your interests with your group
6. • What is the difference between the words “gender” and
“sex”?
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/genderme
d/sexandgender.html
7. 1. What kinds of behaviors/attitudes/actions do you
consider to be masculine?
2. What kind of behaviors/attitudes/actions do you
consider to be feminine?
3. Do you think your beliefs about what is feminine and
masculine are shaped by the culture of your home
country? If so, how?
4. Can you think of any examples of masculinity and
femininity that are different from your own ideas? (e.g. I
think physical fighting is more masculine).
8. • Williams and Best (1982) studied 30 countries and
found high cross-cultural agreement on the adjectives
used to describe males and females.
• In all countries, adjectives associated with men were rated as
being stronger and more active.
• Participants from Japan and South African rated male
characteristics as more favorable; Italy and Peru rated female
characteristics more favorable.
9. • Follow up studies by Williams and Best (1990)
• Men are viewed as active, strong, critical, conscientious,
extraverted, and open.
• Women are viewed as passive, weak, nurturing, adaptive,
agreeable, and neurotic.
10. • Do you
agree or
disagree with
any of these
stereotypes
(in
particular)?
12. What do you think of this practice of fighting cholitas?
13. • Read pgs. 2-3 and complete the discussion questions
with your group.
14. • Using context (how does this work?)
• Parts of speech (what are they and how do you know?)
• Pg. 4, listening
• Pg. 5, complete B and C individually
• Pg. 5, complete part D as a group
15. • Goal: to use new vocabulary words in the contexts of our
academic fields.
• I will choose several conversation starters to be
discussed in class.
• http://ai130sp15.blogspot.com/
16. • Add one conversation starter (Pathways, Pg. 5) to the
Google Doc by midnight tonight (Tuesday)
