Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

’cause
it’s cold up there, and I’d 
have to do Verdi, because he’s so universal.
17. PLAYING POOL 
WOMAN:
I go to the zoo.
MAN:
She, weekends.
WOMAN:
I go to the zoo, yeah.

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INTERVIEWER:
[
OK, so we got that . . .
]
MAN:
Uh, skydive. Um, 
in my free time.
WOMAN:
Well, we like to travel, 
[
we like to 
]
go diff erent 
places.
MAN:
We do. We like to travel, 
we like to 
keep it going
. I occasionally drink a beverage. 
Just sort of something to do. I play pool. I play 
pool
quite 
a bit. Um, what else 
[
do 
we 
do 
]
?
WOMAN:
Jigsaw puzzle. We’re working on a 
jigsaw puzzle
.
MAN:
We’re 
homebodies
, now that I think about it. We 
like to travel, but we’re really homebodies.
INTERVIEWER:
When do you play pool?
MAN:
Ah, I usually play pool on Th
ursday nights in a APA 
league, American Pool Players Association, uh. It’s, um, 
they, it becomes on a natio—, it-it can get to a national 
level. It’s starts at a very local, your own—your home 
bar, you know, sort of thing. Uh, they have some really 
scrappy 
nasty tables and constantly smoke-fi lled rooms 
and you play there. And you go t—, at the end of session 
you can go to, uh, um, a tournament, which is your little 
area, which might be fi ve bars in the neighborhood, uh, 
and if you win that you go to, uh, uh, sort a local, uh, 
meeting for districts, and districts can be all over the 
state, uh, and that’s usually played, which was fi ve min-
utes from her old house. Um, we, after that point, if you 
actually win that and you become champions in