Gender Stereotypes and Talking: Debunking Myths with University Research, Diapositivas de Derecho

¡Descarga Gender Stereotypes and Talking: Debunking Myths with University Research y más Diapositivas en PDF de Derecho solo en Docsity! G art icles: a I an, the, no art icle V collocation: verbs I adject ives + preposit ions P /'JI, sentence stress, /ow or /oi:/? 1 READING & SPEAKING a l n pairs, ans v.1er the questions. l Are you a tal kat ive or a quiet person? 2 v\lhois ... ? a the n1ost talkative person in your fan1ily b the n1ost talkative person you kno\v 3 Do you thi 11 k that, generally speaking, >vomen arc n1ore ta lkative than men? 4 What topics do a) 111en talk about 1nore than \von1en? b) >vomen talk about niore than n1cn? b Look a t the definition of stereot)•pe. Then A read the a rticle Men talk just as niuch as 1vo111e11 and B read the a rticle A BOssip 1vith the {]iris? Find ans,vers to quest ions 1-4. stereotype ,1cri~ta1p. noun a fixed idea about a par ricular type of person or thing, \vhich is ofren nor true in reality. )-- stereotype verb 111 adver1ise1nents, wo111e11 are often stereotyped as housewives. 1 \.Vhat •vas the stereotype that the researchers v.1anted to investigate? 2 W here 'vas the research done? 3 J Jo\v 'vas the research done? 4 \Vhat did the research sho,v? c T n pairs, tell each other about your a r ticle, using questions 1-4 to help you. d No\v read both articles again and look at the filgblighted words and phrases, which are com1nonly used in articles about research. March them with definitions 1-10. 1 2 ., ..> 4 -:) 6 7 8 9 10 T11 fact "'"'"""="----- adverb rea II y • - - verb n1a ke less _ __ usually do it ___ adverb a little bit ___ _ linking \vord used co connect o r contrast t>vo facts _ __ verb say that sth is t rue _ __ as said or s ho\.\1 11 by sb ___ _ verb include several d iffe rent things in addition co the one 111c ntioned ___ _ adverb nearly ____ not completely belie,·ed, doubted e \Vh ich of che t\VO pieces of research do you think is ... ? 1 n1ore credible 3 1nore su rprisi ng 2 111o rc 1n1portant Do you think women talk more than men? Yes, in general I think they probably do. Men talk just as much as women can it really be true? esearch by psychologists at the University of Arizona has shown that the stereotype that women talk more than men may not be true. In the study, hundreds of university students were fitted with recorders and the total number of words they used during the day was then counted. The results, published in the New Scientist, showed that women speak about 16,000 words a day and men speak only slightly fewer. In fact, the four most talkative people in the study were all men. Professor Matthias Mehl, who was in charge of the research, said that he and his colleagues had expected to find that women \.Yere more ta lkative. A GOSSIP WITH THE GIRLS? JUST PICK ANY ONE OF FORTY SUBJECTS omen are experts at gossiping - and they often talk about trivial things, or at least that's what men have always thought. However according to research carried out by Professor Petra Boynton, a psychologist at University College London, when women talk to women their conversations are not trivial at all, and cover many more topics (up to 40) than when men ta lk to other men. Women's conversations range from health to their houses, from politics to fashion, from films to family, from education to relationship problems. Almost everything, in fact, except football. Men tend to talk about fewer subjects, the most popular being work, sport, jokes, cars, and women. : '