Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

The Home
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ger to do the inside than it did to put the logs up. Logs 
were the easiest part of it. And I had never built anything 
of that magnitude. I mean, I was a carpenter’s helper and, 
uh, a bricklayer’s apprentice and all that business, but I’d 
never done anything like that. But, uh, the book they give 
you with the kit pretty much 
lays it right out
, and if you 
had any problems, you called the company and they had 
an engineer pull out a set of your drawings and you had 
a set, and you’d tell him what page to go to and he would 
look at it and say, “What’s your problem?” And you’d 
say, “Well, here’s where I’m having a problem.” And they 
would tell you what to do.
Well, when you walk through the front door, the fi rst 
thing you’re going to see is a staircase right in front of 
you that goes up to the loft, and it’s, uh, a 
cathedral ceil-
ing
. And off to the right is the living room, which is a 
sunken living room, it goes down into the, by the fi re-
place with, um—I want to call it fl agstone, like western 
Maryland stone—big fi replace. And then the kitchen’s off
from that. And then, the rest of it—you know, bathrooms 
and bedrooms and that kind of thing. Upstairs is the, in 
the loft, is where we watch TV and that kind of stuff . And 
then my radio room is in the back . . . corner. 
INTERVIEWER:
So what’s your favorite room in the house?
MAN:
My radio room. Th
at’s where I have all my stuff ! 
INTERVIEWER:
Yeah?
MAN:
Yeah.
INTERVIEWER:
Tell us about why that’s your favorite room.
MAN:
Well, I can sit in there and work radio—talk to 
people all over the world on the radio and do diff erent 
things.

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