Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

med school
, you better have like a 
Plan B
and a 
Plan C
, so you say, “OK, med school is my fi rst choice, 
but then, uh, biology is my second choice, and pharmacy 
is my third choice,” for example. And then depending on 
what grade you get on your 
access exam
, then-then you 
can get into one fi eld or another, and then there are other 
fi elds that are not so competitive. Um, but-but yeah, but 
the diff erence is that you have to know what you want to 
do by the time you go to college, whereas here, you know, 

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the concept of a liberal arts education is completely dif-
ferent. Basically, you go to college to learn about, uh, a 
lot of things, to get a general education about a bunch of 
fi elds, and then, uh, after that you decide what you want 
to 
major in
.
4. THE SCHOOL NEWSPAPER
STUDENT:
I’m-I’m on the newspaper, and, uh, I just recently 
got on—and pretty early for a 
sophomore
, so. We’ll see 
how it pans out. If I like it a lot then that might be some-
thing I’m interested in pursuing.
INTERVIEWER:_How_often_does_the_newspaper_come_out__STUDENT'>INTERVIEWER:
How often does the newspaper 
come out
?
STUDENT:
Uh, I believe the newspaper comes out once a 
month, which is not that often, but for a school paper, it’s 
better than most, and it’s-it’s a really big paper so there’s 
a lot going into it.
INTERVIEWER:
Describe the process of getting it ready 
every month. What has to happen?

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