The school debate

A. vocabulary

*coed school, single-sex school, all-girl school, all-boy school

*opposite sex

*microcosm

[n]

1. a little world; a world in miniature (opposite to macrocosm)

2. anything that is regarded as a world in miniature

3. human beings, humanity, society, or the like, viewed as an epitome or miniature of the world or universe

B. sentences/ phrases

* Is your hypothesis/argument tight?

*come up with more ideas

*It's hard to be conclusive

*for fear of N

*Hear me out

*on the flip side

*the bottom line is that...

C. Correction

*It's a very long time since we graduated from university