Unit 1, Lesson 4, ex.2a) - Hi, I’m Steven. Answer my questions, okay? What’s your name?
Brenda Mitchell.
Do you keep a diary?
No, I don’t. Will that be all?
No, how old are you?
I’d rather not answer this question.
– Excuse me, could you answer a couple of questions for my school project, please?
Sure, go ahead.
Could you tell me what your name is?
Alan Waters.
Do you mind if I ask you whether you keep a diary?
No, I don’t. I mean I don’t mind answering your question. I do keep a diary.
And one final question: Do you mind telling me how old you are?
Unit 1, lesson 5, Ex.2b) Interviewer: How do people become friends?
Jon: Sometimes the differences between two people make them closer. Like take for example my friend Paul and I. We are two totally different people. Yet we are close friends.
Interviewer: What does your friend look like?
Jon: From our appearances we are total opposites. He has blond hair and blue eyes. I have brown hair and brown eyes. I'm 6"ft tall and he's about 5"6' and skinny. Once back in high school we lined up from smallest to largest and we ended up at opposite ends of the line.
I: What clothes does he wear?
J: The way we dress is a lot different as well. He's one of the funky guys. I don’t mean to say that he dresses really well and I dress badly. I'm just a little bit of everything. I just wear what I like. Not what I'm supposed to like. For instance I might buy something from a store, which he might not even pop into, because that's just not his style. Regardless of what they might have inside.
I: What kind of person is your friend?
J: Our personalities differ somewhat as well. I'm more loud and outspoken, more outgoing. Paul's more of that quiet guy that everybody wonders about. I'm the kind of person that likes to start the party. He's the kind to sit on the side and see what happens. When we go out it's usually me who is the first to chat up a young lady. I keep telling everyone this joke about us: “He listens hard and I hardly listen.”