GENDER AND LANGUAGE LESSON PLAN

Warm up

Content Presentation

Practice - Controlled and free

Production

Women's talk vs men's talk

Gender in English vs Spanish vs French or Portuguese

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