unit Active Reading 1.ppt

Improving one’s knowledge of gender differences Learning how a piece of academic writing is structured—starting with an overview of the topic and then going into more details Identifying gender features Identifying gender features Psychological distinctions Psychological distinctions Psychological distinctions Gender differences in language use Gender differences in language use Gender differences in language use Script Gender differences in gossip Gender differences in gossip Gender differences in gossip Background information Text Organisation Identify the textual pattern. Text Organisation Text Organisation Text Organisation Identifying the order As sport and leisure have been shown to occupy about 10 per cent of conversation time, discussion of football could well account for the difference. On further questioning, however, the difference turned out to be more a matter of semantics than practice: What the women were happy to call “gossip”, the men defined as “exchanging information”. (Para 4) Clearly, there is a stigma attached to gossip among English males, and unwritten rule to the effect that, even if what one is doing is gossiping, it should be called something else. (Para 5) For women, this detailed speculation about possible motives and causes, requiring an exhaustive raking over “history”, is a crucial element of gossip, as is detailed speculation about possible outcomes. (Para 8) … it is understood that a suitable expletive conveys such surprise in a more acceptably masculine fashion. (Para 10) Blank filling Blank filling When Simona Ventura became the host of the Italian TV soccer programme, a lot of people 1) __________ at the decision. What could a woman do in such a(n) (2) ____________ male-dominated world? They argued. But the (3) ________ behind the choice of Simona as the new presenter soon became apparent. Rather than change to fit the programme – there is nothing Blank filling there is nothing (4) ___________ about her – she created