Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

INTERVIEWER:
What kind of video games do you play?
STUDENT:
Um, mostly fi ghting games where you just beat 
up a lot of people, but sometimes I’ll play a game that 

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actually has a plot. Um, when they have a plot, I like it to 
be a long game instead of just a mediocre or short plot 
that doesn’t take that long to fi nish.
INTERVIEWER:
For, like what, for example? Tell me about 
one in particular.
STUDENT:
Well, this one game I like, 
Paper Mario
, some-
how this guy fi nds enchanted crystals, and he has to use 
their power to destroy an evil that took over the world 
a thousand years ago, got locked by these special crys-
tals, but it’s coming back because the crystals have been 
found by someone evil. And I’ve gotten to the fi nal boss 
of the game and I still can’t beat it. I, so, I go and I train 
and train and I come back and I still lose. I need to work 
on that.
3. STOPPER AND SWEEPER 
STUDENT:
I play soccer. I’m, um, a defense player. Uh, I 
play 
stopper
and 
sweeper
.
INTERVIEWER:
Stopper and sweeper?
STUDENT:
Yeah, in the lineup. It’s like, uh, stopper is in 
front of the person in front of the 
goalie
and sweeper is 
in front of the goalie.
INTERVIEWER:
OK. Are you good?
STUDENT:
Uh, I’ve been playing since fourth grade, so I 
would hope so. Um, I used to play for my middle school 
for two years but, um, it was, it consumed a lot of my 
time, so when I got to high school, I didn’t want to do 
that, and then all I found out that all the soccer players 
at high school were kind of like slaves to the coaches and 
they didn’t have a lot of free time.

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