Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

INTERVIEWER:
Do you play in a-a soccer league?

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MAN:
Yes, um, I, um, I used to play, uh, when I was back 
home, at a very high level, um, so when I came here, I 
came on a soccer scholarship so I was, uh, 
All-American
for four years, playing soccer in Oklahoma. And, uh, 
when I graduated, the intention was to play in the profes-
sional league, the 
MLS
, uh, but the way the story goes, 
usually if you do not have your green card at the time 
when you’re supposed to play, uh, you’re considered not 
eligible to work, and as such, you cannot play on the team 
unless you adjust your status. So while that is waiting, 
you get married, you have kids, and that dream goes out 
the window, so. But as much as that goes out the win-
dow, your skill remains with you. So right now, I play at 
a league in Germantown, uh, it’s called, uh, the, uh—I 
forgot it again—it’s a semiprofessional league, there’s 
a 
soccerplex
in Germantown, uh, WISL, Washington 
International Soccer League, so we play Sunday games 
and then Saturday we practice.
7. FLYING
MAN:
Entertainment. I’m not a big television person. I-I, 
TV has its place but . . . movies. I-I love music, I’d have 
to say, and I-I play piano. My wife is a pianist as well. I 
also play the fl ute. Um, years ago, as a kid, I played the 
violin, viola, and trumpet, and so music is very impor-
tant to me. Uh, we, I don’t get out to concerts much but 
mostly I’m at home just either listening to music, play-
ing music, uh, not so much watching movies but just 
enjoying, enjoying life. Uh, I also am a federal, I guess a