January 24, 2019
Based on the Gender Wage Gap reading, do the following activities:
1. Organize the text in a coherent order
2. What can be the name for each part? (parts of an essay)
3. What words or phrases did the author use to signal causes and effects?
4. What kind of language is used? (grammar, vocabulary)
3. Do a summary by using a graphic organizer
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Currently, one of the glocal issues is the Gender Wage Gap . Do you know what it is? well, click on the link and do the reading. After reading, analyze the text and answer the following questions in comments:
1. Identify the key words or terms that are related to the topic?
2. What is the main idea of the text?
3. What is the definition of the issue?
4. What are its causes?
5. What are its consequences?
6. What are the solutions?
7. Which grammar topics do you identify in the text?
*Take a look at another issue. Practice your reading skill and learn new vocabulary:
climate change
Project task 1:
1. In project team, Choose 1 article about your topic and analyze it
2. Download the file Project Task 1: Academic Reading and share it with me in Drive (degomezv@unal.edu.co)
Strategies:
1. Identify reliable sources of information.
These are some reliable sources of information where you can find your articles, but you can also look for others:
Colombia Reports: http://colombiareports.com/
Today Colombia: http://todaycolombia.com/
Voice of America: http://www.voanews.com/
2. Recognize the topics of the text. Build a glossary with the keywords.
Digital tools to build a glossary ⇦
Your dictionary
Visual dictionary
Terminology Dictionary
3. Recognize general and specific ideas: Skimming & Scanning.
4. Use graphic organizers to represent the most important ideas, build connections and understand a text better.
1. What is the main idea of the text?
ReplyDeleteThe climate change, his causes, and impact.
2. How many years ago has the earth existed?
4.5 billion years ago
3. What is the definition of the issue and what are its causes?
Climate is the long-term characteristic weather pattern of any region in the world. It has a lot
of causes, the most typical is the creation of carbon dioxide, by use a computer, watch TV...
4. Which grammar resources does the text use?
Past simple, present perfect, past continuous, comparative.
1. What is the main idea of the text?
ReplyDeleteThe idea main the text is approach the theme of climate change, what is, who is affected,and possible causes .
2. How many years ago has the earth existed?
Over the 4.5 billion years that the earth has existed
3. What is the definition of the issue and what are its causes?
The problem is a warming or cooling of the weather, since the beginning of the earth the climate has changed drastically. The main causes are the generation of Co2 that are causing the greenhouse effect, we are killing the trees that are responsible for absorbing Co2.
4. Which grammar resources does the text use?
Past simple, present perfect, past continuous, comparative.
1. What is the main idea of the text?
ReplyDeleteThe main idea of the text is talk about of climate change, whit the definitions of that problem, and also show the causes and the consequents of the change. Also, show how the people have to living whit that.
2. How many years ago has the earth existed?
Over the 4.5 billion years
3. What is the definition of the issue and what are its causes?
The problem is the change of the weather, that so many generation of human have to living in the history, passing of the warm to the cool; in this moment we are living in a the hottest time whit the global warming.
Causes:
- Emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), that is the principal contributor to global warming.
- The use of not clean energies.
- The blanket of the different gases (methane, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons) around the earth.
4. Which grammar resources does the text use?
Simple present, simple past, perfect present, comparative, superlative.
1. What is the main idea of the text?
ReplyDeletethe main idea of the text is to knwo about climate and their interesting factors, the climate charge and their causes and effects
2. How many years ago has the earth existed?
4.5 billion years
3. What is the definition of the issue and what are its causes?
DeleteClimate change is a warming or a cooling of the weather. The main cause is the production of carbon dioxide. Almost 5 billion tons of CO2 are produced each year by people in the prosperus developed world
4. Which grammar resources does the text use?
Past simple, present perfect, past continuous, comparative, superlative and adverbs of quantity
Gender Wage Gap in the United States.
Delete1. Identify the key words or terms that are related to the topic?
Gender, issues, Race, injustice, discrimination, strata, causes, consequences, solutions, Wage, children, workplace
2. What is the main idea of the text?
The main idea of the text is talk about the gender inequality at work or "gender wage gap" in United States. To know the definition of the problem, causes, effects and solutions
3. What is the definition of the issue?
this problem is that American women earn a lower percentage than their male colleagues, regardless of employment.
4. What are its causes?
-One of the biggest reasons for this discrepancy is that there is continues to be gender-based discrimination in the workplace.
-Women are less represented in high earning fields.
5. What are its consequences?
- Women are more likely to have to interrupt their careers in order to have and raise children.
-family responsibilities often fall on the mother.
-the lack of women in the highest strata of business leadership.
6. What are the solutions?
-The first step to a serious and lasting solution is requiring that wages are more transparent, that is, more equitable.
-mandated paid maternity and sick leave for women who become pregnant and who are not penalized.
7. Which grammar topics do you identify in the text?
-simple past
-perfect present
-Comparative and superlative
-simple present
-continuous present
-Adverbs of quantity
1. The main idea for the text is the "climate change",the causes of global warming and possible solutions.
ReplyDelete2. The earth exists 4.5 billion years ago.
3. Climate is the long-term characteristic weather pattern of any region in the world.
The problem is to modify weather patterns, that is, to cause climate change, the causes are the way we live now, the energy we use, the expenditure of fossil energy, the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, causing global warming.
4. Simple present,simple past - comparative and superlative.
Delete1-The climate change, his causes, and impact
ReplyDelete2-Over the 4.5 billion years
3-the problem presented is the climate change, as through the years the human is subjected to cold or heat and all this generated by the great emission of CO2 that ends with the trees that are the main sustenance of oxygen
4-Simple present, simple past, perfect present, comparative, superlative.
1.Climate change, its causes and effects.
ReplyDelete2.Over the 4.5 billon years.
3.Since the human race began to walk the earth,we have been dominated by the climate and today is the one who continues to determine the way we live.
We currently produce 5000 million tons of CO2 that can be reduced by planting trees that are the main natural reservoir of CO2.
4. Emission of CO2 and other gases(Methane,Nitrous oxide,etc);Use of non-renewable energies.
5. Simple present,simple past, adjetive comparative and superlative.
1. wage gap
Deletewomen
discrimination
equality
children
money
public charges
2. The main idea of the text is to inform the reader about the working reality of women and the constant injustice that is committed when making the delivery of salary.
3. The definition of the problem is: women despite exercising the same position as a man, she receives less money
4. the causes of the problem are gender discrimination, and the opinion of society about who should attend the house and who should take money to his family
5. The consequences can be seen in homes where only one woman is responsible for supporting the whole family.
Another consequence could be the fact that the state is deprived of a very capable person in high positions, just for the fact of being a woman.
6. in the text it is said that there are no immediate solutions to this problem because it would lead to a very great change in the ideology of society and I for the moment support that idea
1. Identify the key words or terms that are related to the topic?
ReplyDeletediscrimination, women, children, public charges, wage, strata.
2. What is the main idea of the text?
The main idea is gender inequality and the difference in salary in the United States.
3. What is the definition of the issue?
the definition is that women despite having the same skills and exercising the same charges as men receive a lower salary
4. What are its causes?
the cause is discrimination against women's abilities, which usually do not have high income charges due to gender discrimination.
5. What are its consequences?
the consequences are seen when women are heads of families and have to respond with children and all household expenses, and the lack of women in high positions continues to make women look inferior
6. What are the solutions?
the solution to the problem is not clear but a simple solution would be that the salaries were equal regardless of the gender and I do not think that this is a very drastic change only equality
1. What is the main idea of the text?
ReplyDeleteThe main idea the text is approach the theme of climate change, what is, who is affected,and possible causes .
2. How many years ago has the earth existed?
Over the 4.5 billion years
3. What is the definition of the issue and what are its causes?
The issue is a warming or cooling of the weather, since the beginning of the earth the climate has changed drastically. The main causes are the generation of Co2.
4. Which grammar resources does the text use?
Past simple, present perfect, past continuous, comparative.
1. The main words or items are:
ReplyDelete- Gender
- Wage
- Women
- Social issue
- Inequality
2.the main idea is causes and consequences about gender wage gap in the united states
3. gender wage gap is the difference between the remuneration for men and women who are working, women are generality paid less than men.
4. the main causes are prejudices the American society and maleness and gender discrimination.
5. the consequences are the low wage and discrimination also sexual harassment.
6. the possible solutions are equal gender equality wages and prevent mothers from being worthy of home and being more independent.
7. I identify the past participle and present simple progressive and present.
hi i am genaro aristizabal
Delete1. What is the main idea of the text?
Deletethe main idea it is texs about to explain the theme of the climate change,also as affects causes and consequences.
2. How many years ago has the earth existed?
4.5 billion years ago
3. What is the definition of the issue and what are its causes?
the main issue the deterioation of weather and the main causes are the industries and power station also as pumping co2 and others
4. Which grammar resources does the text use?
past participle and present perfect, adjectives and verbs informals
1. Identify the key words or terms that are related to the topic?
ReplyDeleteEqual pay, gender, wage regardless of the sex of the employed, wage gap, earned, working mothers, family responsibilities often fall on the mother, women are forced to sacrifice wages.
2. What is the main idea of the text?
As the title indicates: Gender wage gap in the United States, causes and possible solution.
3. What is the definition of the issue?
The salary based on the sex of the employee, a crisis that has not been solved in almost 5 decades.
4. What are its causes?
a woman’s work is sometimes perceived to be less valuable than a man’s work, Women are more likely to have to interrupt their careers in order to have and raise children, the women are less represented in high earning fields.
5. What are its consequences?
The gender pay gap hurts the American economy as a whole as it deters women from participating fully in the economy.
6. What are the solutions?
The salaries of companies must be more transparent, and have no impact on employees revealing their salary, maternity leave renumerados, and no longer have the idea that a woman's work is worth less, when they can be great leaders or occupy any position.
7. Which grammar topics do you identify in the text?
Simple past, perfect present, comparative, superlative.