Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

MAN:
Well, this is actually the 
front door here.
WOMAN:
Yeah, OK, well, go ahead.

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MAN:
It’s a sliding glass door—you come in that door and 
you’re in our living room. Th
at restroom is actually for 
the people that use the skydiving school in the airport, 
and we normally keep that door closed and don’t come 
through there except in the wintertime when people’s not 
here and the snow’s piled up too deep out there to get in 
that door. Th
en to the right of this thousand-square-foot 
room, there’s a small offi
ce where I’m trying to start to do 
most of my work from—I’m trying to get out of my offi
ce 
in town. I wanna sell that building and 
disclose of
that. 
And then, uh, we have a huge bedroom to my left and a 
nice bathroom back there for ourselves, so it’s-it’s only 
about thirteen hundred square feet. It’s very small—it’s 
very modest in American standards—but if you go to any 
European nation and you have a twelve-hundred-square-
foot house, you’re doing 
pretty good
.
WOMAN:
On thirty-three acres.
MAN:
Yeah, on thirty-three acres of land with your own 
runway and your four-thousand-square-foot garage 
with your airplane, your motor home, your two motor-
cycles, your Corvette, your pickup truck, et cetera, et 
cetera. Which is very unusual. Most people have a four-
thousand-square-foot house and a twelve-hundred-
square-foot garage. We have it the other way around 
’cause we’re never inside living. We’re always outside 
living.

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