Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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• Have the students write questions about their 
transcripts, similar to the ones in the text. 
• Have the students record an interview with a 
native or fl uent speaker, based on one of the 
DVD topics, and follow the same procedures just 
listed. Help the students prepare their questions, 
review the transcripts, and share them with the 
class. Also, ask the students to write questions to 
accompany their transcripts.
Acknowledgments
We are very grateful to Patrick Harris for his excellent 
work fi lming and editing the DVDs. We thank all of the 
people who were willing to be interviewed and Holly 
McGuire, Christopher Brown, and Julia Anderson Bauer 
of McGraw-Hill Professional; Jim Dellon, Ivey Wallace, 
and Jayne McKenzie of Gallaudet University; Kevin 
Keegan of Hubert Blake High School in Silver Spring, 
Maryland; Mike Solano and Merchant’s Tire in Laurel, 
Maryland; and Jim Smith, Kim MacKenzie Smith, and 
Th
e Skydivin’ Place in Kingsdale, Pennsylvania. 

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LIFE IN AMERICA
In this chapter, interviewees talk about various 
aspects of life in the United States and how life 
in the United States may differ from life in their 
countries of origin.
1. DRIVING ACROSS AMERICA
MAN:
I have driven throughout most of the country. Um, 
so, there’s, you know, the speed limits, well, it’s fi fty-fi ve, 
uh, there’re . . . Do you know how the ro—, the roads—by 
the way, this is fascinating—do you know how the road 
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