Family Members

Use the headphones to listen to Exercise 1, once you have completed the assignment post your score.

Complete Exercise 2, once you have completed the assignment post your score.

Complete Exercise 3**, once you have completed the assignment post your score.
**Note:  You do not have to watch the video to complete the assignment.

CompleteExercise 4, once you have completed the assignment post your score.

Complete Exercise 5***, once you have completed the assignment post your score.
***Note: This video takes time to download, so wait til it's downloaded completedly before listening to it.

Gender Roles

Watch the video and answer the following questions:
1. In Western culture men are supposed to be in what manner?
   a.  ___________________________
   b.  ___________________________
   c.  ___________________________
  d..  ___________________________

What are women naturally expected to be?

   a.  ___________________________
   b.  ___________________________
   c.  ___________________________


What assumptions are made about gender and racial aspects have been made?

Why aren't women allowed to forget their place?

Women went to war; but they couldn't do something?

Summarize what you see.

Gender Roles

Instructions:  Look at each picture. Write the gender roles of each person in the role. Next, you will compare if these gender roles apply to those here in Puerto Rico.

Gender Roles

Instructions: Click on the link: Gender Nouns



Instructions: Select the correct answer.

____  1. mouse

a. Masculine                                                                                                                           b. Feminine
c. Neuter

____  2. duck

a. Masculine                                                                                                                        b. Feminine
c. Neuter

____  3. butler

a. Masculine                                                                                                                        b. Feminine
c. Neuter

____  4. mistress

a. Masculine                                                                                                                        b. Feminine
c. Neuter

____  5. tires

a. Masculine

b. Feminine
c.  Common

____  6. emperor

a. Masculine

b. Feminine
c. Neuter

____  7. poodle

a. Masculine
b. Feminine
c. Neuter


____  8. waitress

a. Masculine
b. Feminine
c. Neuter

____  9. lioness

a. Masculine
b. Feminine
c. Neuter


____  10. mister

a. Masculine
b. Feminine
c. Neuter

Job Interview

Instructions: Read the text and choose the best options.

 updated          trouble             website                 keen                   
               on                    prepare            impression   subsidiaries            fault              enthusiasm              slack

I was told the best way to  ____________ for an interview is

by going to the company’s ____________ and finding

everything you can about them. The idea, of course, is that it

creates a good ____________ and proves that you are

____________ working for them because they can see

you’ve done your homework. The ____________was that

they hadn’t done theirs – the webpage hadn’t been

____________ for over a year, so I asked all these questions

about products they didn’t produce and subsidiaries that no

longer existed. They must have thought I wasn’t very well

prepared. It wasn’t my fault, though, and I kind of lost

enthusiasm for the job once I found out what had happened. I

mean. It’s a bit  ____________, isn’t it? 

Office Collage

Find at least 30 cliparts or images that are about the office. Find some that are related to the vocabulary words in the past posts. Give your collage a title that is related to the topic we are studying. Place your images on a word doc and email it to me.

Example:  The World at My Finger Tips

 

More Office Stuff

Instructions: Place one of the words from the word bank to complete each sentence.

pay

management

leave

offices

weekends

coffee

office

computers

day

lunch

1. A first, last, sick, training or half ___________ describes the specific activity being completed.

2. Head, home, branch, central or home ___________ talk about the locations where work is completed.

3. __________ break, shop, maker and run are terms office workers use to talk about getting liquid refreshments.

4. __________________ politics, etiquette, memo, hours and gossip describe behaviour in the workplace.

5. Upper, middle, micro and anger describe types of _________________.

6. Long, three-day, and holiday describe _______________________.

7. Take-home, sick, base, holiday, overtime, and equal _______________ describe salaries.

8. Desktop and laptop talk about _________________________.

9. Sick, maternity, paternity, family and personal ________________ describe reasons for being away from work.

10. A brown-bag, late, business, or working _____________________ describe the type of noon hour break workers have.