Angličtina pro matematiky I
Course materials and homework week IX.
217 College Pasttimes
- Describe your typical day at university. (I usually get up at….., my classes last till….., I go home at……, in the evening I usually………….)
- What do you do when you play pool?
Listening: Alex talks about things students do for fun at university in the U. S.
Read the text and fill in the missing words. Then listen to the tape and check it.
would bar mystery pretty joke into allure though like next hang radio
Todd: So, Alex, you're still at university.
Alex: Yes, sir
Todd: So, what's a typical day at university 1………………?
Alex: A typical day at my school, let's see, well I would usually get up, well last semester, I would get up around 8 or so. My first class 2…….. be at 9:10. It'd be an hour so around 10:10 I'd get out of class, you know, have lunch, and I was actually a part of the college 3………. station.
Todd: Oh, really.
Alex: So yeah, I'd 4……… out there, play some music, you know, 5…….. around, play some pool, go to class. It wasn't too bad.
Todd: Yeah, where do you play pool?
Alex: Oh, well, anyplace that I can really. There's a pool table right 6………. to my radio station at school so I usually play a lot there - a place called Mr. Pockets, too, where I live. They're 7………. inexpensive so, I play there too, but I'm not very good. Like the pool table at my college was, it was a 8………. pool table so you have to pay money for it, 50 cents a game, and I must have put at least a hundred dollars in there and I'm not any better than when I started out, so I don't know.
Todd: That's OK you have other talents.
Alex: I guess.
Todd: What's the 9……….. of pool? Why do college kids like to play pool?
Alex: Oh, I have, it's really a 10……., it's very ambiguous. I don't know. It's just the pool tables there and something with hitting balls with a stick 11…… little holes, maybe, but it's a lot of fun. I don't know why I like it as much as I dobut even 12……… I'm not so good I like to play some pool.
Todd: So, Alex, you're still at university.
Alex: Yes, sir
Todd: So, what's a typical day at university like?
Alex: A typical day at my school, let's see, well I would usually get up, well last semester, I would get up around 8 or so. My first class would be at 9:10. It'd be an hour so around 10:10 I'd get out of class, you know, have lunch, and I was actually a part of the college radio station.
Todd: Oh, really.
Alex: So yeah, I'd hang out there, play some music, you know, joke around, play some pool, go to class. It wasn't too bad.
Todd: Yeah, where do you play pool?
Alex: Oh, well, anyplace that I can really. There's a pool table right next to my radio station at school so I usually play a lot there - a place called Mr. Pockets, too, where I live. They're pretty inexpensive so, I play there too, but I'm not very good. Like the pool table at my college was, it was a bar pool table so you have to pay money for it, 50 cents a game, and I must have put at least a hundred dollars in there and I'm not any better than when I started out, so I don't know.
Todd: That's OK you have other talents.
Alex: I guess.
Todd: What's the allure of pool? Why do college kids like to play pool?
Alex: Oh, I have, it's really a mystery, it's very ambiguous. I don't know. It's just the pool tables there and something with hitting balls with a stick into little holes, maybe, but it's a lot of fun. I don't know why I like it as much as I dobut even though I'm not so good I like to play some pool.