You’ll Be Glad EVERY Day That You MASTERED These Questions!

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Rachel's English


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Today, I’m answering 100 common questions  in English, you might learn some new  
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vocabulary. Definitely pay attention to  the sentence structure and think about  
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how you would answer these same questions.  The person asking the questions is going to  
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be my colleague Tom so let me put in my  little earbud and let’s give him a call.
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What’s your full name?
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Rachel Smith.
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What do you do for work?
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I’m a Youtuber and I teach English  in an online language school.
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How are you doing today?
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I’m great. How are you?
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Great!
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How old are you?
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I’m 43 years old.
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When is your birthday?
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November 5th.
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Where did you grow up?
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I grew up in Gainesville Florida.
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Do you have any siblings?
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I do I have one brother.
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How old is your brother?
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He’s four years older than me so he’s 47.
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What were your parents’ jobs when you were young?
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My dad was a professor and my mom was a  librarian both at the University of Florida.
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Are you married?
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I am.
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How long have you been married?
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Let’s see.. We have been married for eight years.
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Where did you meet your husband?
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Actually, we met at college but we didn’t  start dating until like 15 years later.
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Do you have any children?
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Yes, I have two sons.
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How old are your children?
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They are right now 3 and 6.
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Do your children look like you?
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I think they do. But other people  say they look like my husband.
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Let me interrupt for just a second to give  a quick shoutout to my supporters through  
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the YouTube channel memberships. If  you click join, you can get emojis,  
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special badges that make your comments  pop and the top tier also gets a free  
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audio lesson every month. Thank  you guys so much for your support.
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What kind of college did you go to?
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I went to a small liberal  arts college in the midwest.
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What did you major in?
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I majored in applied math, computer  science and music, vocal performance.
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Did you go to graduate school?
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I did.
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Where did you go?
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It was called the Longy school and it’s a  small conservatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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What did you study?
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I studied Opera Performance.
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Where do you live now?
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Now I live in Philadelphia.
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How long have you lived there?
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I lived here for about 10 years.
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Do you like where you live?
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I do. It took me a while, I left  New York City to live here and I  
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love New York CIty so it was an adjustment period.
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Do you live close to your family?
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Not really to my parents and brother, but  we live pretty close to my husband’s family.
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Where does your brother live?
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My brother lives in Texas.
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Where do your parents live?
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My parents live half of the year in  Florida and half of the year in Colorado.
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What do you usually have for breakfast?
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Ooh, for breakfast, I usually  have either a croissant and a  
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latte or some of my homemade sourdough  with goat cheese and Earl Gray tea.
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What do you usually have for lunch?
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Honestly, I usually skip lunch.
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What do you usually have for dinner?
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For dinner, I have whatever David has  made but I try to focus on vegetables.
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What did you have for dinner last night?
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David’s out of town, so I had to make  it myself and I made chilaquiles.
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What are some of your hobbies?
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I love baking, and right now I’m pretty  into fitness and riding my Peloton.
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Who is your favorite Peloton instructor?
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Probably Christine.
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What do you like to bake?
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Oh my gosh, everything.  
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Pies, cakes, custards, cookies. Right now,  probably layer cake is my favorite thing to bake.
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What kinds of movies do you like to watch?
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I probably focus more on dramas.
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What’s a movie you’ve seen recently?
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Okay, it’s not a drama. But I recently  rewatched Bridget Jones’ Diary.
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What kinds of books do you like to read?
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For books I like novels and memoirs.
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What is a book you’ve read recently?
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Uhm, let see. I recently finished  a novel called Angle of Repose.
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What kinds of television shows do you like?
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Uhm, I don’t watch a ton of TV, but again  probably mostly dramas but some comedy.
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What is a TV show you’re watching now?
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I recently started on called  Bear on Hulu. It’s pretty good.
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Have you ever lived abroad?
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Yes, I lived in the Dominican  Republic and Germany.
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How long did you live in the Dominican Republic?
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I lived there for one semester  in college so about three months.
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Did you learn to speak Spanish?
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I tried. I could get by.
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How long did you live in Germany?
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Germany, I was there for 6 months.
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Did you learn to speak German?
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Again, I was not great, but I could get by.
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What languages have you formally studied?
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In addition to Spanish and German,  I’ve also studied French and Italian.
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What’s your favorite city?
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New York City, baby!
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What’s your favorite place you’ve lived?
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New York City, baby!
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What kind of music do you like?
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Well, I love classical music, I mean that’s a  very broad genre but, symphony, chamber music,  
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operas, choral music. All sorts of  time periods. I basically love it all.
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What’s your favorite album to listen to?
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Ooh that’s tough. Right now I’m really  enjoying Philip Glass String Quartets.
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What’s the best opera you’ve ever seen live?
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That is impossible to answer. So many, but the one  that’s coming to mind is, it was the Met Opera. I  
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can’t remember the year, but it was Natalie  Dusey and Juan Diego Flores in The Daughter  
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of the Regiment. And it was mind-blowing in  every way. The sets, the costumes, the singing.  
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I could go on and on but  I’ll stop. It was that one.
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What’s your favorite season of the year?
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Definitely fall.
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Why?
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My birthday, my husband’s birthday,  Thanksgiving, and I just love the crispy cool.
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What’s your least favorite season?
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Spring.
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Why?
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Rainy and boring.
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Do you have any pets?
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No.
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Did you have any pets growing up?
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Yeah. Growing up we had a rabbit when I was really  
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little. And then I got to  pick a dog when I was 10.
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What are you doing today?
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Today I’m filming some YouTube videos!
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What are you going to do this evening?
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This evening.  
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Well, my husband’s out of town and so is one of  my sons. So my older son and I are probably going  
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to.. Oh! I’m having my nephews over for dinner,  so we’re going to have a little dinner party.
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What did you do last night?
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Last night, made the chilaquiles  and just hung out with my son.
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What are you going to do this weekend?
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Ooh, this weekend. Actually this  weekend we’re renting a house in  
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western Massachusetts with  some friends from college.
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What did you do yesterday?
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Yesterday. It was mostly just a normal  work day. Picked up my son from school.  
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Took him to school in the morning,  but during the day just at my desk.
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What are your plans for your next vacation?
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My next vacation.  
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Don’t have real solid plans yet but we do know  that for spring break we’re going to Mexico.
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What is the most relaxing place you’ve been?
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Ooh, good question. There is a  place in Massachusetts where I like  
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to go for silent retreats called Insight  Meditation Society and I adore that spot.
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What is the best trip you ever took?
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Hmmm...that’s tough. One  that’s coming to mind right now  
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is when I was in my early 30s I went to Africa.  So Tanzania and Kenya with my aunt and uncle.
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How many international trips have you taken?
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Oh wow! I don’t know. Probably  between 10 to 15 across my whole life.
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What is one place that you would  like to visit that you haven’t yet?
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Okay, I can’t name one. Greece. I  would say Alaska.
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South of France.
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Do you have a big family?
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I do. If you count extended family I have  a pretty big family and so does David.
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Do you have a lot of friends?
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I do feel that from various phases of life I  
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have close-knit groups of girls  that I still keep in touch with.
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Are you happy?
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I am. I feel very lucky that I am quite happy.
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How’s your health?
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Health’s okay. I recently injured my foot  and I’m still recovering from that. Still  
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have to wear this cast when I walk, but  in general I do enjoy very good health.
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Have you ever broken a bone?
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I have cracked a couple ribs before on  an ill-fated canoe trip, but that’s it.
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What is something you have to do that you dislike?
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I really hate driving.
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What is something you wish  you could do that you can’t?
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I wish I could speak another  language with full confidence.
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Are you an introvert or extrovert?
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Definitely introvert.
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What’s your favorite time of day?
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Probably when I am drinking my latte or my tea.
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What’s your favorite day of the week?
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Ooh, that’s tough. I know it’s kind of lame, but I  
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kind of like Mondays. I kind  of like starting my work week.
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Snow: love it or hate it?
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Love it!!
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How much do you sleep every night?
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I do not do well if I don’t have enough sleep so I  
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try to get minimum 8 and creep  up to 9 a couple times a week.
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How much do you exercise?
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Before my injury I was exercising a lot. I would  say five times a week and when you add it all up,  
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I do a lot of little things. Probably  between, like, an hour and an hour 45 a day.
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What is one thing you need that you don’t have?
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One thing that I need that I don’t  have, is not possible is I wish I ad,  
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like three extra hours at the end  of every day to just be by myself.
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What’s one thing you regret?
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You know, I don’t like to live by regrets that..I  feel like...life’s...your life always takes a  
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path and it’s interesting no matter what you  did. However, If I had to come up with one,  
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I would say I do regret, a little bit that I  didn’t move to New York sooner. I regret that  
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I stayed in Boston for an extra year  or two when I didn’t really need to.
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What kind of car do you drive?
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We have a 2018, somewhat beat-up Honda Minivan.
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Have you ever been in a car accident?
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Yes.
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Were you hurt?
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Not really. I did go to the hospital in  an ambulance, but I was not that hurt.
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Have you ever run out of gas while driving?
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Yes I have.
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How did you deal with that problem?
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I called a friend who was driving the same  wedding I was. I said: “Where the heck are you?” 
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He was close enough. I said: “Please go  get me a gallon of gas and bring it to me.”
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What’s one goal you have for the next year?
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Oh, for the next year, I would say the main goal  
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I have is to get my ankle better, and to get  back to the same level of fitness that I had.
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For the next five years?
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I don’t really... I, I’m not a, like  bigger picture thinking person so it’s  
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actually hard for me to come up with one from five years.
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For the next ten years?
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Okay 10, that’s easier because I do  sort of have in mind that if possible,  
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it would be nice to maybe retire in 10 years.
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How likely is it that you  will reach one of these goals?
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Ha, good question.
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Only time will tell.
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Do you have a sweet tooth?
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Absolutely!
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Do you have a green thumb?
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I do not. Actually, there are a lot of plants  
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behind me right now and that  is all my husband’s handiwork.
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Are you a cat person?
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No!
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Are you a dog person?
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Not really even though I had one growing up.
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What’s your favorite chore?
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My favorite chore is probably folding laundry.
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What’s your least favorite chore?
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My least favorite chore is a tie between  doing dishes because no matter how often  
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you do them, there’s always more,  and toilets because those are nasty.
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Do you have any nicknames?
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Some people call me Rach, and  some people call me Ray-Ray.
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Do you watch sports?
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I do, I like watching sports.
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What are your favorite teams?
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I would say, mostly I follow Philly  teams because of David, and then  
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like the University of  Florida because of my parents.
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Have you been to any live  sporting events this year?
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I did. We took my oldest son  to a 76ers game this year.
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Big thanks to Tom for helping me with this video.  Don’t forget to subscribe with notifications on  
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so you can stay on top of all of my lessons and  keep your learning going now with this video.  
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I love being your English teacher. That’s it  and thanks so much for using Rachel’s English.
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