Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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INTERVIEWER:
So do you play as part of a school activity or 
as part of a league outside of school?
STUDENT:
I play for, uh, 
MSI
, which is a league outside of 
the school. I still play, yeah.
4. RUNNING
INTERVIEWER:
What do you do in your free time? 
[
If you have free time . . . 
]
MAN:
Free time, well, uh, yeah— I love to travel. I go, uh, 
go back to Europe not just for research and excavation 
at, uh, at Pompeii, but I love travel and so, uh, get around 
Italy as much as possible and other places in Western 
Europe. But I’m also an 
outdoorsman
. I enjoy athletic 
activity. I run a lot, uh, I bicycle quite a bit, um, I swim 
when I can, uh, I used to be a skydiver, which was, uh, a 
lot of fun. I don’t that much anymore but, uh, but I enjoy 
being out of doors.
Um, I’ve always enjoyed running since I was a kid, uh, 
especially long distances. It’s, uh, it’s a challenge but it’s 
also a kind of physical activity I just, I very much enjoy. I 
love being able to run for an hour or two, uh, or three or 
four at a time. It’s, uh, it’s something that, uh, that I enjoy. 
Just the feeling of being in good condition, of course, and 
having a strong body is-is satisfactory. But more than 
that, uh, being able to run for extended periods of time, 
uh, gives me time to think—it, uh, it’s a relaxing kind of 
time for me, gives me plenty of time to refl ect or think 
about, uh, work or, uh, outside creative projects that I 
have under way, gives plenty of time for ideas to-to fer-
ment. But also, too, uh, frequently I run with an 
iPod 
and I have digital books, uh, digital recordings of books 
on my iPod and so I’m able to listen to books as I run, 

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