Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
High school reunions have a lot of potential for drama. Some attend simply because they want to catch up with old friends and revisit the past. But others are more interested in showing off, settling old scores, or comparing their lives to everyone else’s. The former geeks are hoping that they’re more successful than the former jocks, the former jocks are hoping that the former prom queen is still single, and everyone wants to know who got pregnant, who got rich, and who got fat.
Mason recently attended his 10 year high school reunion. Many high schools throw parties where you can meet up with your old classmates years after you graduated. Find out if Mason found that prom queen or found that everyone else was more successful than him.
Dialog
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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Mason: I went to my 10 year high school reunion this weekend.
Devan: How was it, was it fun?
Mason: I have crossed that mighty traditional bridge. It was fun. I mean, I had really low expectations as far as what I might get out of it. There were a lot of people that actually showed up. I mean, I was kind of expecting for there to be a pretty low turnout.
Devan: Now, a lot of those people, did you stay in contact with them over like a social network, or were you seeing them for the first time in a really long time?
Mason: I stayed in touch with most of my close friends in high school, and then I kind of slowly accumulated new friends on Facebook and whatnot. So I’d had a sense of what maybe half of the class was doing. Basically I saw people put pictures of their kids up there and I’m like, “OK, they are obviously are doing that thing.”
Devan: So, were you one of the more successful of your class, would you say? Or somewhere in the middle? Was anyone doing anything really amazing?
Mason: I heard that one kid got super rich banking and moved to Brazil, so he wasn’t there.
Devan: Wow.
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Discussion
When Mason went to his high school reunion, he wasn’t expecting it to be a very fun party, but he ended up having a good time. A lot of people came whom he hadn’t seen since graduation. Some of them were people with whom he had remained friends via Facebook.
Many people who attend their high school reunions worry about how their lives will compare with their classmates’ lives. They want to be seen as successful. They don’t want their old classmates to think that they haven’t done anything since high school. Mason only heard of one guy who became extremely rich, but he wasn’t at the reunion because he lives in Brazil.
Have you stayed in touch with your former classmates? What do you hope to be doing 10 years from now?
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