Talking about life
Conversation
You will hear a reporter asking people from different countries about life. What is the difference of life between these countries. Listen to the interview and learn the phrases about life.
http://speakingtopic.com/audio/6/ab.mp3
Reporter
Excuse me. Do you have a moment!
Hiroko
Yes!
Reporter
You aren’t American!
Hiroko
No, no, I’m from Japan. I’m on holiday here.
Reporter
OK. So, my question is: what’s different for you about life here?
Hiroko
Erm … well, here people live in houses … they live in big houses. I’m from Tokyo, and we live in flats, small flats. So that’s very different.
Reporter
… and so for you, what’s different about life here!
Sanchez
Erm … well I study at university here. And it’s very different from my country because here in the United States, the students have jobs. They work in the evenings, maybe ten hours a week.
Reporter
And you! Do you work!
Sanchez
Me! No, I don’t. I don’t have time. And in my country students don’t work, they only study.
Jane
What’s different here! Erm … oh yeah, people drive everywhere. I mean, they drive two hundred metres to the shops.
Reporter
Do you have a car!
Jane
Yes, I do, but I don’t drive to the shops. Not two hundred metres! I walk.
Reporter
And where are you from!
Jane
I’m from England.
Pacini
I think it’s not so different. I’m from Italy and my American friends are not so different from me. Er … we like sport … we like clothes … We er … we go to the cinema, restaurants, have a coffee …
Reporter
So you like the same things.
Pacini
Yeah, the same … not different.
Exercise
Complete the text with the positive (+) or negative (-) of the verb in brackets. The first two have been done for you as examples.
I’m from Italy but I live (live ) (+) in the USA with my wife, Debbie. We don’t have (have ) (-) children. We 1 (like ) (+) life here very much.
I 2 (work) (-) in an office. I work from home. We 3 (go) (+) to the beach a lot and we 4 (play) (+) tennis in the evenings.
We 5 (have) (-) a big house but we 6 (live ) (+) in a beautiful town.
Our friends Jim and Katie are very nice. They 7 (play ) (-) tennis, but we often 8 (drive ) (+) to their house for a barbecue.
Answers
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like
don’t work
go
play
don’t have
live
don’t play
drive
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