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Listening - Regrets

Part A - Listen to people describe their regrets. What does each person regret?

1 - Alex

• I should never have stopped exercising. It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever done. I’ve been trying to lose weight for the last year and a half and it’s really difficult. I guess I was just like everyone else at my age. I thought it would be for forever I hate junk food all the time. It was okay then, because I was playing tennis, hockey and soccer. Then after college, I got busy and quit playing sports, but now I’m determined to join a gym, because I know I can’t get healthy by just dieting. Besides I love potato chips.

2 -Yi-yun

• If I’d had a choice, I would have learned to play the guitar when I was a kid. My parents made me study the piano and I only studied classical music. I love the piano, but it’s not very practical. I mean, you can’t take the piano with you to a party, but I love it at a party, when someone brings guitar and they can play songs and everyone sings along. I wish I could do that.

3 - Jacob

• I regret something I didn’t do, I regret not going to Europe with my friends when I have the chance. It was the summer after we all graduated from college. I started to look for a job right away, but my friends went backpacking in Europe for a few weeks. I should have gone, because I didn’t get a job right away anyway and my friends had an unforgettable time together. I regret it, because they all had this amazing experience without me and looking back, I could have and should have gone.