English in Everyday Life consists of eighty-four interview segments with everyday people, not actors, speaking English in the United States. Th e interviews are organized into ten chapters. Each chapter focuses on a diff erent aspect of everyday life, from the family and the home to free time, sports, food, and the use of language. Th e goal in using an interview format was to elicit natural speech and to allow the speakers to express themselves as freely and naturally as possible. In these interviews, you will hear the vocabulary and sentence structures that real speakers use to talk about their everyday lives.