IELTS Listening Practice | Mental Gender Differences
IELTS Listening Practice | Mental Gender Differences
About this activity
- This activity is labeled round table by Dr. Hariri, the creator and administrator of LELB Society.
- This activity is on the premise of Flipped Learning, according to which the students watch a video before the class, carry out research into the selected theme, and prepare themselves for an informed discussion in the class.
- This activity is on the basis of both synchronous and asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC), according to which the students are also encouraged to be active even before the class.
- In this flipped classroom activity, the students are encouraged to utilize the comment form at the bottom of the post to to exchange their questions, findings, and experiences with each other. Later on, we will discuss the asynchronous activities in the class. In a few words, “let’s learn from each other.”
About the Video Files
- The video files are meticulously selected among the most prominent academicians, lecturers, and scientists based on Google Scholar.
- We might refer to the exact elapsed time ⌛️ of the video files to pinpoint specific statements, messages, etc.
Writing Activity
- You should adopt a formal register in your written contributions in the comment form.
- To give an answer to a question or comment, use the Reply button.
- In our written activities, we can practice negotiation of meaning (sharing our findings with regard to the selected themes) and negotiation of form (performing peer-reviewed error correction).
- Put a number before your questions in the comment form successively to refer to them more easily in the class.
- Your questions should be unique and not previously raised by your classmates in the comment form.
Expectations
- You should take equal turns in speaking. The maximum amount of time you can have is 60 seconds.
- This is a fully organized activity; consequently, all your contributions, including comments, replies, and verbal opinions, must be with direct reference to the assigned topic and its corresponding video. Any irrelevant contribution is strongly frowned upon.
- You will be stopped if your speech appears to be irrelevant or not supported by evidence.
- Students leaving comments below will be given priority over others in our informed conversations.
19 – In fact is it there any relation between brain and feeling ? Is the reason of difference between their feeling is in their different brain ? Which side of their brain have more difference ?
Corrections:
Is there any relationship between …
As I see in some article, women have a larger deep limbic system than men so they are more in touch with their feelings and better able to express them.
Feedback
and better able to express them = and more able to express themselves.
In fact is it there any relation between brain and feeling ? Is the reason of difference between their feeling is in their different brain ? Which side of their brain have more difference ?
That’s a good and deep question about our brain functions and the generation of various feelings. Thank you.
18- Which box is the favored box in the brain of the men?
Corrective feedback:
… in men’s brains
17- What’s the favored box in the brain of the men?
Correction
… in men’s brains
16- Do you know what does it mean “superhighway”?
Correction:
Do you know what it means …
Highway in compare by superhighway is same as stream by river.
Superhighway is the same as expressway.
15- Can you tell us, one of the reasons why women can remember everything?
Totally relevant to our current topic about mental gender differences! Thank you.
14- fill in the blanks with proper words: women brains made of ………. and everything is ………. to everything.
Corrections
fill ➡ Fill
women’s brains are made of …
Women brains made of big ball of wire and everything is connected to everything.
That is almost a direct quote from the lecturer about women’s brains. Thank you.
13- The women’s brain made of ……….. .
1- full of nothing 2- a big ball of disconnected wire 3- a big ball of connected wire 4- a big ball of money
Thank you for developing this multiple-choice question item.
Great!!!!
3- a big ball of connected wire
That’s right. Thanks.
12- what is it made of women brains?
Corrections:
What are women’s brains made of?
11- Does it different between men brains with women brains?
Corrections:
Are there any differences between men’s brains and women’s brains?
10- Is there any particular box in the minds of men?
Are you referring to the Empty Box or the box in which there is technically nothing!?
9- What’s the rule of mind’s box of men?
Corrections:
What’s the Role of boxes in men’s minds?
what’s the first rule in men’s mental boxes?
In fact, according to the lecturer, men can spend an extended period of time thinking about actually nothing.
8- How many little boxes are there in the mind’s men?
Corrections:
in men’s minds / brains
It’s a secret between men . A forbidden question. 😀
And it also indicates how different the two genders are from a mental or neurological point of view!
7- Why no one must not touch mind’s boxes of men?
Corrections:
Why must no one touch men’s mental boxes?
Men’s brains boxes are same as sequential music on an old cassette! I think. For example in old cassettes you expected to listen Banan (A great Persian singer) after 15 minute from first point of cassette in side A . So no one shouldn’t change this arrange . If any one change It you lose address of that music . To prove my idea its enough to open women’s purse . All Items are mixed in a big bag . I don’t know how they found everything in that ??? But you can see men’s suitcase are always in good order.
That is an interesting analogy you are drawing. So you mean these mental and neurological differences have actual manifestations in the real life, which is expectable.
6. According to the lecturer, how should men and women interact with each other to relieve each other’s stress?
Women need to talk with somebody so women need someone to listen to them and men prefer don’t talk and go to nothing box, women should leave them alone.
women need listener not solution, so men should listen and don’t give solution.
Precisely, especially according to the lecturer and when confronted with stress.
Some corrections:
It’s better to pluralize listeners and solutions.
Thank you for your comments, Mohammad.
Here are some corrections:
Men prefer not to talk
thank you so much
You’re most welcome.
5. What does this expression mean? (Time: 5:38)
To make someone angry or annoyed.
Precisely. Thank you.
You’re most welcome.
4. Was his performance really attractive as a lecturer? Frankly, his screams and shrieks were almost irritating to me!!!
Good point! This is subject to some controversy. I have a different idea, though. We will surely discuss it in the class.
3. Do you think the empty box in men’s brain helps them to handle challenging situations better compared to women?
Such a great question!
Really its more important box in our brain . Because it’s empty !
An empty glass can contain any liquid . But filled glass can not.
you can solve any issues with empty box . Filled box haven’t any space to clear issues.
I believe your argument could be fallacious as an empty glass, too, has a limited capacity.
2. Why are women more emotional than men?
At the elapsed time [3:05], it was mentioned that women’s multiple-mindedness and their information processing are driven by emotion. I did not find the answer to your question in the lecture. Maybe I need to pay more attention.
Thank you so much. You are completely right. He did not mention it directly in his lecture. I was wondering whether we could come to this conclusion that women are more emotional than men because of the structure of their mind or not.
Good point as this is debatable and proper for our discussion. We will discuss it in the class.
Thank you so much.
It’s my pleasure.
It help them to transfer their feeling better and faster . Why none of women’s schoolmate not answer to questions . They will have better answer I think ?
That’s a good point! I hereby invite our female students to practice leaving comments here to enjoy asynchronous learning about mental gender differences.
Thank you Dr for this interesting video.
1) According to this video: What is functional difference between men’s and women’s brain while they face with stress?
You’re welcome.
Thanks for your question and putting a number before that. Please keep doing that in your later questions as well.
Women’s try to share it and solve in their private social. But men’s like to solve stress inside their mind.
Corrections:
Women try — men like
Women and men are already plural.