Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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ball 
in that tier for the state, they, at that juncture, will 
pay for you and your eight team members’ plane tickets 
to Las Vegas, and, uh, they put you up in a hotel out there, 
and you go to a national tournament out there.
WOMAN:
He’s never made it that far.

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MAN:
We’ve never made it that far. I’ve known people 
who’ve gone to Vegas, that they’ve gotten fl own to Vegas, 
but our, any team that I’ve ever been on has-has not gone 
that far. Even if you win a few rounds of the, uh, national 
things that are happening locally, ra—, actually, not 
national, at the state level, um, they will pay you. We-
we’ve gotten a payout of our team members, each one, 
somewhere in the neighborhood of forty or fi fty dollars, 
which is actually very good. It’s, you’re at least winning 
something at that point.
18. HOBBIES
MAN:
Hmm, I got all kinds of hobbies. Skydiving.
INTERVIEWER:
OK.
MAN:
Flying. Fishing. Hunting. Uh, competitive rifl e and 
pistol shooting. Uh, 
ham radio
. Um, wood carving. Um, 
probably a bunch I can’t even think of right now.
INTERVIEWER:
So with-with that many hobbies, how do 
you spend your time with them—do you participate in 
whichever one . . . ?
MAN:
Well, the-the seasons have a lot to do with that. Like 
in summertime, I like to be fi shing, uh, skydiving, and 
fl ying and the weather’s good. Uh, shooting outdoors and 
all that business. Come wintertime, we’re not jumping 
so much, so I might do more ham radio, uh, hunting in 
the wintertime, um, woodworking, doing stuff in-in the 
house. But I like, I like being outdoors more than I like 
being indoors.
Well, I always wanted to 
jump
. And when I left Med-
star—when I retired from there—I started teaching fl ying 
up here at Hanover, and that’s how I met Jim and I started 

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