Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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13. THE 
PERFORMING ARTS
WOMAN:
I go to a lot of plays, um, at both the Studio Th
e-
atre—
season tickets
there—and the Shakespeare Th
e-
atre. And I, um, went there after I saw 
Th
e Trojan Women
. 
I’m like so-so on Shakespeare—I like Shakespeare, I like 
Greek tragedy a lot, um, and it’s, so, the combination is 
interesting. Uh, Studio Th
eatre has interesting, you know, 
sort of newer things to see; occasionally the Arena Stage, 
um, I’ll go to. Movies I like. Um, some dance things, you 
know, I like, and concerts, um . . . 
INTERVIEWER:_What_was_the_last_concert_you_saw_WOMAN'>INTERVIEWER:
What was the last concert you saw?
WOMAN:
Last concert I saw was Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk 
Road, which I thought was really, uh, interesting, 
yeah, so.
INTERVIEWER:
So classical music?
WOMAN:
Yeah, I like classical, I like modern sort of, um, 
something called Trip-Hop, which is kind of jazzy, it’s 
English. I don’t know, it’s not really rock but electron-
ica—kind of that, um, so I do that. I’m not much of a tele-
vision watcher. Occasionally, and I’ve taken up 
knitting
. 
I’m learning how to knit. And so, it’s too boring to do it 
by itself, so, like, Jon Stewart, I can watch Jon Stewart, I-I 
watch Jon—I like him a lot. He’s funny, so a little bit of 
that and I’ll knit and . . .
INTERVIEWER:
What inspired the learning how to knit?
WOMAN:
Um, there’s a woman in my offi
ce who’s an expert 
knitter
and she off ered to teach people how to knit, and 
I said, “Oh, what the heck?” you know. And um, Th
urs-
day at lunch, you can go in and knit and, um, talk with 
people, learn how to do new things, so. My mother is still 
shocked, shocked. She-she can’t believe it, so.

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