GENDER AND LANGUAGE LESSON PLAN

GENDER AND LANGUAGE LESSON PLAN

Sebastian Concha

English B2 class at the Bachelor in Foreign Languages. (Canva or Power Point)

• Warm up

• Content Presentation

• Practice - Controlled and free

• Production

Choose one of the following topics

• Women's talk vs men's talk

• Gender in English vs Spanish vs French or Portuguese

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According to Lakoff, women’s talk has the following properties:

• A large set of words specific to their interests: e.g. color words

  like magenta, shirr, dart (in sewing), etc.

• “Empty” adjectives such as divine, precious, lovely, cute, etc.

• Tag questions and rising intonation in statement contexts:

  What’s your name dear? Mary Smith?

• Use of hedges

• Use of intensive “so”

• Hypercorrect grammar: women are not supposed to talk rough

• Super-politeness

Gender in English