Scripts

H = Hina; M1 = Man 1, etc.; W1 = Woman 1, etc.

Part 1

H: I have a busy social life. I go out most nights after work with friends. Last night, I went out for a meal with an old friend from university – it was really good to see her. Tell me about your social life. Do you go out a lot?

Part 2

M1: I do go out quite a lot, yeah. I ... I like to go out to bars and I quite like going to friends’ houses and having dinner and things like that.

W1: I like to go to the cinema and um, I think the last movie I saw was The Hangover – it was very funny. And ... and I like to go to the theater also.

W2: No, we don’t go out a lot – um, possibly weekends. We go out for meals or something. M2: Not too regularly. Weekends. I play golf … um, socialize afterwards.

W3: During the day we do. Er, in the evening, no, no. No, we don’t.

W4: My friends and I like to go out quite a lot. We go clubbing; we go to discos.

W5: Yes, I go out sometimes in the village. Er, we live in a small village, so a lot of our social life is in the village, so we go out to friends’ houses, go to parties, go to the pub.

W6: Um, not so much … but I like it a lot. I like to go to the theater, to the cinema, meet friends, eat out.

W7: Sometimes I go out for a ... for a couple of drinks with some good friends, but ... um, not very often. A couple of times a month maybe.

Part 3

H: Did you go out last night?

W4: We went to this club in Piccadilly Circus and we danced all night. We had a few drinks, but then mostly dancing. And there was (were) a few guys there and they were really cute and we, like, talked to them.

W5: We had dinner in an Italian restaurant by Tower Bridge and it was lovely. We had a lovely evening of just looking at the … the river and enjoying the view and enjoying lots of fun with the family.

W6: Well, I went to the cinema – seeing the last Harry Potter film – ah, which I enjoyed a lot.

And afterwards I met some friends for a … for a drink in town.

M2: We went to see, er, Mamma Mia! At the Prince of Wales Theater, and it was excellent.

W2: We went to the theater. We saw a play by Tom Stoppard called Arcadia, which was extremely interesting and we enjoyed it very much. Afterwards, we went with friends for a meal. We had a Spanish “tapas” type meal, which was extremely enjoyable.

W1: Um, last night I went to, um, Westfield Shopping Center, which is in the west of London and I enjoyed a delicious meal there.

M1: Last night I went to a friend of mine’s house which is in south London and um, we went out and went to a fish and chip shop, bought some fish and chips and went home and had that with a beer in front of the television.