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Gossiping

Gossiping - student A


This article is about gossiping. Do you understand what "gossip" means? In conversations, when people sometimes talk about other people's private lives, it is called gossiping. We often imagine older women telling gossip to each other; in other words, the tell personal information about other people.

Gossiping - student B


Researchers analyzed girls and boys between the ages of 9 and 12 in order to learn if they gossip and what they gossip about. By the way, children between 9 and 12 are called 'pre-teens.' The researchers found that pre-teens spend 50% of the conversation time gossiping.

Gossiping - student C



Girls often talk about boys that they were in love with. They also talked about boys other girls loved. Boys, other the other hand, rarely talked about girls that they loved. But they did talk about girls in general.

Gossiping - part D


There was some interesting information about pre-teens. Pairs of boys who were good friends gossiped less than boys who were not close friends. In other words, boys used gossip to become friends with someone new. Girls, on the other hand, used gossip mostly with their friends. Girls spent much more time gossiping with close friends than with girls who were just acquaintances.

Gossiping


a) Do people in your country gossip?


b) When you were a pre-teen, did you talk about boys or girls you loved?


c) In general, when you were in junior high and high school, what types of things did you talk about?


d) When you were a pre-teen, did you have a few close friends or many friends who were not so close?


e) Nowadays, what kinds of things do you talk about with your friends?