Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

INTERVIEWER:
In what events do you compete?
WOMAN:
I do eventing, uh, which has, uh, three phases to 
it: there’s 
dressage
, which is 
fl at work
—it’s kind of like 
ballet on horseback. And, uh, then there’s cross-country 

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jumping, where you jump natural obstacles over about 
a mile-long course and, uh, it’s timed for speed and, uh. 
And then stadium jumping, which is jumping inside a 
ring, and then you’re-you’re graded on all three of those, 
and then there’s one grand winner out of all of that, so 
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it’s 
fun 
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INTERVIEWER:_What_was_the_last_competition_like_WOMAN'>INTERVIEWER:
What was the last competition like?
WOMAN:
Uh, actually, I got eliminated. My horse is still 
young, and, uh, there was a jump that had one big white 
mum underneath it and, you know. Th
ey-they’re animals 
that are trying to survive, you know, they still have, uh, 
instincts to survive, and I guess he thought that mum 
was gonna eat him. So he, uh, stopped three times, which 
wipes you out of the competition when you have refusals, 
so, yeah. But we’ll keep trying.
INTERVIEWER:
So tell me about the horse.
WOMAN:
Th
e horse is, uh, I’ve had him for three years. 
He’s a Connemara Th
oroughbred. Connemaras are from 
Ireland and, um, you know, Th
oroughbred. And, uh, he’s 
just spooky and 
full of himself
and likes to make life 
more interesting than what it is, so . . .
2. COMPUTER GAMES 
STUDENT:
Um, not so much 
computer games
as mostly 
video games. Um, but on the computer I’ll just go to a 
game website, and usually they have new games which I 
can play on there.