高校時代のグループ

People from different cliques in the movie "The Breakfast Club."

高校時代の体験は人それぞれ違います(ひどいか最高か、その間のどこかって処でしょうか)。この英会話レッスンは、社会科学の論文を元にしたものです。なぜ、、アメリカの高校に、それ以外の高校より、グループが多く存在するか、という研究について学習します。私たちは高校生活を生き延びてきましたよね。高校時代の経験や、或いは、日本の高校生活について講師と会話してみて下さい。

Introduction

Before class, read the article about the study done on high school cliques:  http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/november/cliques-high-school-110514…

Make any notes of vocabulary or language you don't understand. Your teacher can help you during class with any questions you may have.

Warm Up

What is a clique?  How would you explain it to a child?

Language

Work through the tasks with your teacher:

Language check

Do you have any questions about vocabulary or grammar? 

Summary

Tell your teacher what the article is about. Try to make it conversational: "I read an interesting article yesterday. It said..."

Comprehension

Answer the following questions:

  1. Do schools that offer more choices tend to have more or less cliques? Why?
  2. Does the researcher recommend that bigger schools are better?
Paraphrase

Try to put these sentences in other words:

  1. "Bigger schools offer a broader range of potential friends, as well as greater exposure to people who are different." 
  2.  "Different kinds of students are likely to thrive in settings with different blends of supervision, freedom and uncertainty."
Practice

Discuss this topic with your teacher. You can talk about personal experiences in high school or just focus on the article. Try to converse naturally as if you were speaking to someone about this over dinner with a colleague or friend. This is a perfectly natural topic as many people share their school experiences with other people.