Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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12. PLAYING THE PIANO
MAN:
Depends on the mood. I would say, uh. I-I play some 
religious music, some 
spiritual music
. A lot of, some, I-I 
guess my wife would call them show tunes, and it’s prob-
ably with the infl uence from theater, but just a lot of, uh, 
anything that I interpret, I have to get the music because 
it’s a work expense, and I need to be familiar with how to 
interpret the music, and so I have lots of music, uh, in my 
library. And so there-there, lots of show tunes, lots of, uh, 
spiritual music, some jazz, some 
classical music
—that’s 
pretty much it.
INTERVIEWER:
When do you play?
MAN:
Pretty much every Sunday. It’s, there’s, there’re two 
things that I do on Sunday and it’s, this is just what’s 
happened over the years. I typically play at least a song 
or two towards the evening, and I also watch “Animal 
Planet.” And so it’s just, uh, a habit that my wife has got-
ten, she and I have gotten into before we had kids. It’s just 
a calming thing, it’s a Sunday evening, it’s relaxing, “Let’s 
look at the animals,” and it’s just become a tradition in 
that my daughter and I have now started Sunday eve-
ning, “It’s time to watch ‘Animal Planet,’” and we . . . Th
e-
the question was, “When do . . . ?” When do I play—so 
Sunday evening, I’d say, uh, pretty much. And any other 
time that I have a 
free moment
. Th
e other time I play is 
when I’m waiting for my wife, uh, when we’re about to go 
out. She’s, I’m always ready fi rst and the kids are ready 
and we’re always waiting, and so in that-that little 
span 
of time
where we’re waiting for my wife to fi nish getting 
ready before we depart to go out, I usually play a song or 
two just to pass the time.

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