Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

INTERVIEWER:
And, uh, and the wallyball?
MAN:
Wallyball, yeah. It’s mostly cardio and more physical, 
I guess you can say. And I do that every Th
ursday night.

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4. WATCHING SPORTS
STUDENT:
Yeah, I really like watching sports, uh, with my 
dad especially ’cause he’s kind of a character and, um, it’s 
kind of weird ’cause I-I probably watch more sports with 
my dad than my brother does, which isn’t very normal. 
But, uh, we like to watch basketball. Right now, 
March 
Madness
. Kind of excited ’cause I had Georgetown going 
pretty far, and, um, we-we shout and, uh, we get excited, 
and it’s-it’s really fun. We also watch football, always root 
for Penn State ’cause that’s where my dad went, and last 
year they had a really good year, so that was fun. Um, 
sometimes we watch some crazy things, like, we watched 
rugby, we watch golf, which is actually more interest-
ing than I would imagine but not interesting enough to 
watch the whole thing.
INTERVIEWER:
Why do you say it’s more interesting than 
one would imagine?
STUDENT:
Well, golf is typically assumed to be a boring 
sport, just someone hitting the ball and it goes into the 
hole somewhere, hopefully, if they’re any good. But it’s 
more interesting now ’cause of Tiger Woods, and he’s 

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