Chapter 3: Gender and Relationships
Specific outline
I. Introduction about chapter
In the old days, it was so simple: men hunted and women raised the kids. Then we moved out of caves, invented gender studies and learned a bit about genetics. Nowadays, everything has changed. They develope into many sides of society. And today, our group will talk about a small sides in a big problem. That is Gender and Relationships. That’s also our lesson.
In this chapter, my group will show about others side of Gender and relationships. It includes mainly in 2 sides. First, the big changes that have occurred in the family life and personal relationships of people in the United States in the last several decaces. Second, a Russian business which exports a suprising product: “mail-order” brides. Hoping that we will understand more and more after we learned!
II. What is General idea ?
_Definition
General idea was buit from topic sentence. Using explanation or evidences to clarify the topic sentence.
PART 1
III. Essay 1
1. Reading
Reading the first paragraph: Who’s Taking Care of the Children in 15’.
Divide class into 4 group. After 15’, each group give the General idea.
2. Finding General idea
The Essay on Outline and assess feminist explanations for the relationship between gender and victimisation
Official crime statistics show that males are four times more likely to commit crimes than females. Victim surveys show women to be more likely to be victims of sexual and violent assaults than males. It has also been suggested there are gender differences in punishments. Radical feminists such as Heidensohn claim that women’s lower crime rates can be explained in terms of patriarchy. She claims ...
Discussing and choosing the best General idea.
Explaining
Specifical
Idea 2 is the best General idea: Giving a cover view on the paragraph. All ideas are arranged on a whole paragraph, such as many forms to take care of the children: day- care centers, day-care facilities, hiring nanny,etc; appearing more and more family types: extended family, immediate family, blended family; the roles of fathers in child care and househould chores; a new trends- working from home.
Idea 1: The ideas weren’t mentioned in paragraph. Not relate to contents in paragraph.=>Wrong ideas.
Idea 3: Only concentrate on a small part in paragraph. Not clearly.
3. Matching words to their definitions( p. 61)
1.c, 2.i, 3.e, 4.g, 5.n, 6.h, 7.b, 8.j, 9.k, 10.l, 11.f, 12.d, 13.a, 14.m.
Seeking more synonym words if you can(^^!)
PART 2
Now we move to part 2: 70 brides for 7 foreigners. This reading selection is about Russian women who marry foreign men. Firstly, each group scanning this selection and find out the following information in the article on page 66.
I. Scanning for Facts
Each group has 10 minutes to complete the Activity 1.
1. 23( Line 4)
2. Yarsoslav the Wise( Line 6,7)
3. 100( Line 20)
4. 10( Line28)
5. 5( Line33)
6. United States, Germany, and Britain( Line 35, 36)
7. 1.200( Line 46)
II. Distinguishing Between General and Specific Statemens
1. Definition
A general statement describes or refers to a situation that is common and occurs in a number or different cases.
The Essay on General Statements On Eliot
Stephen Spender "Ritualistic" is, it seems to me, the word that best describes [Eliot's] attitude to life. He had a vision of the relationship of the living with the dead through the patterns of rituals that extend into the modern world the pities that remain unaltered from the past. He thought that when these rituals were disrupted - and when, in deed, the observance of them was not the foremost ...
For example, Couples today often decide to have only one child.
A specific statement describes or refers to only one case or occurrence.
For example, My neighbors have only one child.
2. Finding General , Specific Statements and Matching
Column 1: Specific Statements.
Column 2: General Statements.
1b, 2e, 3a, 4d, 5c.
3. Selecting the Main Idea
Most paragraphs do emphasize one main idea. Paragraphs like this, often called body paragraphs, usually have three major parts: a topic sentence (a statement of the paragraph’s main idea); additional supporting sentences that elaborate on and support the topic sentence; and a concluding or clincher sentence.
And now we will review that definition by doing task 3 on page 69.
_ Discussing and finding the best main idea
_ Explaining
1. That ideas only say about 1 side in Paragraph. About the number of couple who get married at Wedding Palace Number 4 and the number of
