Worksheet 2: Interviewing
Instruction : Read the interviewing ,translate in Thai and do ex. A- B.
Interviewer: Do you live right in the city or are you in a suburb?
Jessica: I used to live in the suburbs with my parents ’til I was seventeen years old. And then, as I thought I have to grow up, I moved into the city, and I lived in the center.
Interviewer: So which do you prefer?
Jessica: That’s difficult because both sites have their, like, advantages. In the city you’re around your friends, and it’s much easier to, yeah, to go out and to meet people, and you’re at home in ten minutes because you can walk. And if you live in the suburbs, it’s quieter and yeah, you’re more in the countryside and more in the nature with the, yeah with your family, so it’s like . . . I wouldn’t say one is better than the other one. It has . . . both sites is very good, so I like both.
Chris: I think most people in the city are there because of work, a lot of the times, so a lot of people are rushing, and they’ve got deadlines and appointments to meet. So they can come across as a bit more rude than perhaps people in the suburbs who have less pressures on them, it seems to me. But I think once you get talking to people in the city, when they’ve got time, they’re just as nice as anyone else. Interviewer: Tell me where you live.
Emma: I live in the city. Where I live is kind of quiet, but it depends on the time of the day, and sometimes there is like a little restaurant in the area, and people tend to go there. So sometimes you hear when people are coming out when it’s really late, but it’s not noisy all the time. It’s OK; it’s a medium kind of sound there. There’s lots of children there—families, a lot of families. Different cultures, hard-working people. It’s a very nice community. It’s very clean, which is kind of different from the city because the city’s kind of messy, but they maintain it, and they keep it very nice. So lots of stores, shopping, a little family theater area where kids can go watch shows with their family. So it’s a very nice area . . . I enjoy living in the city because I get, it’s quick access to, like, food or, you know, you don’t have to travel in a car or go down an hour or two to the mall. I mean, you can just walk up to any store and get an outfit and you’re gone. Like, it doesn’t take a lot of work to go somewhere.
Natalie: I live in the city, and I really enjoy living in the city because it’s very busy, and there’s always something to do. It gets a bit too busy sometimes, and so you . . . it’s nice to take vacations. But I like living in the city because there’s always bars to go to, there’s restaurants, there’s plenty to do. The commute to work is very short—it only takes me about twenty minutes to get to work by public transportation. And, yeah, I really like it, because there’s lots of people with similar interests and very interesting people to speak to all the time.