Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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STUDENT:
Well, fi rst, um, we have a meeting, uh, trying 
to fi nd article ideas, and basically everyone who knows 
someone interesting or something newsworthy, we just 
write it on the board, and then our sponsor, Mr. Keegan, 
he hands out the, uh, the articles. So we then have to go 
interview people, and, um, you have to have a recorder 
and have your questions all ready and then we write it, 
using a quote, I mean a lot of quotes. And then, um, then 
we submit it, um, to the, to the drive on the computers, 
and then the editors look over it. And then they paste it 
up on boards, on how the comp—, the, uh, newspaper 
layout would be and—it’s called 
pasteup
—and, uh, then 
everyone edits your articles so you can’t be very 
touchy 
about that kind of thing, um. And you edit other people’s 
articles, and then, um, the pasteups, uh, get fi xed, and so 
we put on new ones and then they’re sent to the printers. 
And we print in color, so it’s kind of costly.
5. AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
MAN:
I’m trying to cope with American, uh, education 
system because my son goes to school, and I’m-I’m very 
interested to see what kind of education is he getting 
because I want him—naturally, as I said, I want him to 
go to Harvard University eventually, to the best college 
in-in the country. So I want him to be, so I-I look at his 
homework, I see the kind of, uh, I ask him, “What kind of 
interaction, uh, you have?” And, uh, also, so I see, uh, in, 
he’s in grade three and he has to do lot of book reports. 
He has to do science projects, grade three. Of course, it’s 
Howard County, so the educational level is a little high, 
but I have, I have to work hard, I have to take out at least 
an hour or two a day to understand the kind of project he 
has. My wife does all the