You Just Don’t Understand by Deborah Tannen
Questions to prepare for discussion of CH 1: Different Words, Different Worlds, pp 23-25
Main Ideas
1. Summarize the differences between Deborah Tannen’s feelings and her husband’s feelings
when people say it must be hard for them to have jobs in different cities.
2. Summarize the differences Tannen identifies between how men approach the world and how
women do? Point to specific examples in the text.
Paraphrasing/Vocabulary in Context
1. What do you think “de-emphasizing the inconvenience” means in P3, p. 24?
2. What do you think “I felt these sympathizers were claiming inappropriate intimacy” means at
the end of P8, p. 25?
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