Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

WOMAN:
Th
ere’s no windows in that part of the house.
MAN:
Th
ere’ll be no windows in that part of the house. 
Th
ere’s only one door, uh . . .
WOMAN:
Th
ey got to pay admission to get in. 
MAN:
Right!
WOMAN:
I think that’s what he . . .
INTERVIEWER:
So that, what’s it for?
MAN:
It-it’s to view movies. I-I will also use it—it will have 
the capability to probably have television, ah, pictured 
on an over hundred-inch screen. Uh, but, primarily for 
movies. It will be used as a theater the way a theater is 
conventionally used. So when you come in, there’ll be a 
quiet swinging door that will open, close behind you. If 
you come in the middle of a picture, you don’t want to 
talk, you want to be quiet and courteous to other people 
watching the fi lm. Um, that’s sort of . . .
WOMAN:
Th
ere may be a trapdoor to let them out, down 
the bottom.
MAN:
Th
ere will not be any of that.
WOMAN:
If they’re too loud.
INTERVIEWER:
What’s your favorite room?

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WOMAN:
It’s probably going to be the kitchen, because I do 
like to cook. Um, so, I think it’s going to be the kitchen.
MAN:
Ah, it’s defi nitely the kitchen.
WOMAN:
It-it’ll have to be the kitchen. I like to eat, 
too, so.
MAN:
I’m going to like the kitchen, too.
WOMAN:
Oh, no, you’re not.
6. LIVING AT THE 
DROP ZONE
WOMAN:
Our house is a little unusual because we live at 
an airport, so, uh, you know, we have a, sort of like an 
apartment attached to the hangar, um. So actually if you 
came in the front, you would be in, uh, what would be the 
[
restroom for the-the hangar
]
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