Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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are two bedrooms and one 
full bathroom
, and it also 
has a little patio.
INTERVIEWER:
And what’s-what’s your favorite room in the 
house and why?
WOMAN:
Um, I think my favori-favorite room is the living 
room because it’s one of these little Victorian houses so 
it has a-a—one of those windows, um, I don’t remember 
the name of it . . . um, a-a 
bay window
—it has a bay win-
dow, and, uh, and it’s, uh, in, but you can, the stairway, it’s 
very, it’s one of those old stairways, so and it’s-it’s beauti-
ful, and it’s right there in the middle of the living room 
and so you can see the-the stairway and the, it’s very light 
and it’s also, we painted the walls yellow, which is a color 
I like, so and it’s comfortable, it’s got a nice comfortable 
couch, and I have my music, uh, stereo there so I can sit 
and listen to my music.
2. A 
LOG HOUSE
MAN:
It’s a log house that my 
late
wife and I built our-
selves, and I also have a three-car log garage that I, that 
my present wife and I built ourselves. And, uh . . .
INTERVIEWER:
How did you decide on that type of house?
MAN:
Always wanted a log house. So, bought a kit and 
built it.
INTERVIEWER:
How long did it take you to build it?
MAN:
Started in April, uh, and had it 
under roof
by 
August of that year, and then it took from August of that 
year till the following June to get it 
fi nished out
on the 
inside, enough to move into it. It was actually, took lon-

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