actividad creada en el seminario de titulación 2012

1. Topic
THE WAY YOU THINK,
THE WAY YOU ACT!

2. Introduction
These activities were created with the main
purpose to compare and to reflect about the
differences and similarities that men and
women have in a general context and also
comparing their own similarities and
differences as people from Chiapas.

3. Objectives
 Communicative: At the end of this unit, Students will
be able to talk about psychological differences of
each gender.
 Linguistics: Students will use their active vocabulary
and will remember his /her passive vocabulary in
order to accomplish the activities. The student will
make use of the different tenses.
 Socio-cultural: During the Unit, the Students will
learn , discus, and reflect about the differences of
each gender.

4.  Material: Videos, Texts, Pictures, Skype,
audios, blogs, e-mail.
 Background: The student already have
vocabulary enough , grammatical structures
and the skills needed in order to accomplish
the activities.

5. Student´s Support
*Student´s English level : A2
*Age: 18 – 22 years old.
*Previous hours: 180 – 200 hrs.
*Skills to develop : 4 Integrated skills
*Competences: Cultural , Linguistics ,
Communicative competences.
*Evaluation: The Teacher will grade each activity
after they were done.
*Kind of approach: Conductual and costructivist.

6. Teacher´s Support
 To encourage students to reflect on the
importance of each way of thinking,
depending the gender.
 To learn about some psychological
differences between men and women.
 To compare and reflect about this topic
focusing also in their immediate context:
Chiapas.

7. THE WAY YOU THINK, THE WAY YOU
ACT!

8. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3f3V6X4Ez4
Click
INTRO. Look at the video and then answer the following questions;
write it on http://www.nicenet.net/ICA/class/home.cfm.
1.- What is the video about?
a) It is about a party.
b) It is about differences between man a woman.
c) It is about differences between a man and his friend.

9. Activity number 1. Everybody is different, but when we talk about genders the
things change; the differences get bigger and bigger and nobody understands
anything. Look at the following pictures, What´s going on in each one? Think
about it.

10. Activity 1.1 After you have looked at the pictures presented before, complete
the following chart in which you express 5 differences between men and women
that you consider important, taking into account your context (Chiapas).
Answer on http://www.nicenet.net/ICA/class/home.cfm
Example:
1.- Men are less talk active 1.- Women are more sensitive
Men Women
1.- 1.-
2.- 2.-
3.- 3.-
4.- 4.-
5.- 5.-

11. Activity number 2: Listening activity:
Now you will hear and watch a video where a man and a woman talk about their
differences.
Pay attention and then answer the following questions.
CLICK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL_Jb38IcuU&feature=related

12. Activity number 2.- Now you have 6 sentences in which there are some
sentences extracted from the Audio. Read them and put the correct number in
the correct figure. Answer on http://www.nicenet.net/ICA/class/home.cfm
You can watch the audio again.
_____ _____
_____ _____
_____ _____
1.- They have better coordination of hands and eyes.
2.- They are less tolerant to noise.
3.- They like sedentary type of games.
4.- They are more wakeful and actives.
5.- they like to communicate with others and speak earlier.
6.-They often forget the names of playmates.

13. Activity number 3: Listening & Speaking !!!! Do you think that the place in
which you live (Chiapas) affect the way women and men act or think?
Get into the Skype and talk about that with your partners.
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14. Activity number 4: Speaking. You have already listened about the different point
of view respecting to the physicological differences between a man a woman
from your State. Now, What do you think about that? Is it true? Is it false?
What can you tell about this situation?
Make a recording of about 3 minutes in which you answer this questions, send
the file recording to the Facebook account.

15. Activity number 5: Read the following Text, after that,
answer the following exercises. The text will be
uploaded in a PDF format on the Facebook account
that the Class already have.

16. Activity number 6: AFTER YOU READ. Write true (T) or false (F) in each
sentence depending the Reading. Answer on the page:
http://www.nicenet.net/ICA/class/home.cfm
1.- Men tend to process better in the right hemisphere of the brain while women tend to process
in the left hemisphere. ________
2.- Women have a more difficult time understanding emotions that are not explicitly verbalized.
_________
3.- Women have a larger deep limbic system which allows them to be more in touch with their
feelings and better able to express them. _______
4.- Men approach problem-solving from a task-oriented perspective. ________

17. Activity number 7:
What do you think about the psychological differences that men and
women have with each other? Have you had some troubles related to
this?
Write a Paragraph (60-80 words) where you explain some impressions that
you have about what you have learned in this unit. Some positive and
negative points related to the topic.
Send it to the Teacher´s mail.