217 College Pasttimes
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1. Describe your typical day at university.
2. What do you do when you play pool?
3. Do you think there is any typical activity studen&t this university like to do?
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. Todd: So, Alex, you're still at university. Aiex: Yes, sir
Todd: So, what's a typical day at university 1......?
Alex: A typical day at my school, let's 2.......well I would usually get up, well last semester, I
would get 3......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 4......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 5......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 bar pool table so you have to pay money 8.... 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 9......other talents.
Alex: I guess.
Todd: What's the allure of pool? Why do college kids like to 10........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 11......little holes, maybe, but it's a
lot of fun. I don't know why I like it as much as I do but even 12.........I'm not so good I like to
play some pool.