French: okay um i um this is um participant c thirty five p one can you hear me

French: okay thank you and yeah i can hear you and this is participant c three five um p two

French: okay um i'm going to read out the text now so we will understand what we are supposed to do

French: right

French: so um we'll ask you to each read out a short reading passage and then um have a relaxed chat with your partner at the beg at the very beginning introduce and state your participant's number in the email and if possible rename yourself on the zoom see screenshot below this is important so we can match your survey responses to your voice and face example hi participant number hi my participant number is um c nine nine nine p one avoid using each other's name during the conversation we would also like you to both read the following passage out loud it's okay if you make a small mistake or are unsure about the pronunciation do it one at a time so um i think i'll read the passage first

French: all right that's fine

French: okay um please call stella ask her to bring these things with her from the store six spoons of fresh snow peas five thick slabs of blue blue cheese and maybe a snack for her brother bob we also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids she can scoop these things into three plastic eh three red bags and we will go meet her wednesday at the train station

French: okay uh please call stella ask her to bring these things with her from the store six spoons of fresh snow peas five thick slabs of blue cheese and maybe a snack for her brother bob we also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids she can scoop these things into three red bags and we will go meet her wednesday at the train station

French: okay um that will be that's done um there are some topics um that we have here okay things you could discuss with your partner favorite hobbies favorite or least favorite games sports teams music food now or when you were a child best trip or holiday things you like or dislike about um scotland so looking at these topics um which one would you like to go

French: i think i'll go with the first one when you were a kid what kinds of games did you used to play is there any one you remember well so i think i have i don't know about you but i think i think i prefer the first one yeah

French: okay um so should i go first

French: yeah you go first yeah

French: okay um when i was a kid um i think um one of the games i really loved to play was um the um ps yes playstation um playstation should i was that it should be playstation two yeah yes i i played that a lot i still recall and um no i still play i still play and um my favorite game there is um the pro evolution soccer that's um ps ps and i still play that a lot but now i've changed i i sometimes play ea sports fifa and um i also love to play um the mortal combat and i these days i play c o d two but i really have time for games anymore like i did before so maybe highest i play games now is just one uh now i just have to i have a lot of work to do so when i i do come back from work i'm always too tired to play games and things like that but a few years ago i was really a game freak and i still play i still play and i like last week i played and um i still i'm very sure i still know how to play what about you

French: yeah for me i think um when i was a kid the one i remember very well was um football yeah i played a lot of football when i was a kid you know when coming back from school i wouldn't want to do anything else all i wanted to do was to um play football and then have some fun with my kid it's originally football i usually played at that time so i can't really think of any game th then because i i was so i was so um in love with the game i liked football as a game up to the point that um i had to you know turn my my stockings my socks to football i had to you know turn my some of my exercise books and i'll wrap them with a tape yeah and then kick them with my friends and some anything that looks like ball that worth uh you know kicking so yeah i it's football i loved to playing then and now i don't think i still play football i really don't have much time for football because all i want to do now is you know just um yeah i'm trying to survive i'm struggling to survive you know so i need some money so i think i've been working working working working working i don't really have much time for football not like i don't like football i still do but um i think i don't really have much time to play football yeah

French: hm about playing football before i came to scotland i was i was a gu a kind of um i i i always wanted to be a professional footballer yeah but things changed now because um growing up in a place where you you don't get to you there are thousands of people playing football and um only a few uh are getting a become a a are getting or are earning from it like it was really really i felt really really downcasted when i realized that um i couldn't make money from football and i had to just stop playing football and go play and go um go for my dreams like um s go to school and um things like that i sometimes it gets me pissed off but i'm okay with it i still watch a lot of football and still play football but it i don't want to take it as a profession anymore i just want to enjoy myself and um just um see how i can just put everything put everything in place and um get to understand how life is gonna be from now

French: yeah um yeah sure and same happened with me here because um while growing up i think a lot of people wanted to be in wanted to be um a professional footballer you know played for um chelsea arsenal and all of that but as we grew things began to change in our lives and then we began to see ourselves in you know in various places working for money and i would just the you know like the interest for the interested if people just um disappeared like that but no some people still have the you know the time like i said i don't much i don't have that much time to to play football and i still watch football yeah

French: okay so like apart from um just watching football are you a fan of any team do you support any team

French: no no no i don't support any team um

French: so you just watch football casually

French: yeah i just watch football

French: actually i love ma

French: lately i would just watch <overlap>

French: i love man u i love to watch manchester united and um i think um they are the best team in the world so maybe since you don't have a team you are supporting you should just come and um support manchester united

French: <laugh> i wish

French: ah

French: i wish though

French: so you don't want to watch you don't want to support manchester united you should maybe one day we should just go watch

French: not like i don't want to support man

French: what do you think

French: no more like one day not like i don't want to support man u yeah they are doing well yeah they are doing perfectly well but right now i don't think i have that time to you know what i'm really scared about football is that you know when you go watch football and when you come back you have to face some banters with your friends or yeah with your um your your opponents maybe people yeah people that are not your like man u played and like the last team the other day man u and one team played like that and then i had to come back to the house i didn't watch the ball i i went out i had to come back and i met some of my neighbors arguing arguing arguing a lot about football so i don't that's one thing i wouldn't want to find any club because of the banters we would have to face with your um your your opponents

French: i understand i perfectly understand isha

French: yeah

French: but i do play football games too you

French: nah i'm such a boring person all i do is work for money so

French: holidays i do work for money too i i work um double shifts sometimes because i i have to go work for my um educational bills too so you you're not the only person working but i just try to make them out for every other thing

French: yeah but i don't really see myself playing video ga video games yeah

French: you watch movies

French: hmm yeah sometimes i do sometimes i do but not regularly you know maybe when i'm just hanging out with friends we go see a movie with popcorn a and then we come back to the house so but you see now i'm not allowed to watch a movie i think i i find it i find that very difficult unless i go out with a friends then that's when i can watch a movie

French: okay

French: how about you

French: i watch a lot of movies um and i i prefer most times i like when i'm watching series yeah because um i li i i like the suspense that comes with it so i watch a lot of series my favorite um my favorite series um um peaky blinders if you have you seen peaky blinders can you hear me can you hear me

French: yeah i can hear you

French: okay um i was saying um have you ha have you seen um peaky blinders peaky blinders is um is a very nice series it's something it's a movie that um you would like to watch and um you would like it

French: yeah peaky blinders i've heard a lot about the movie for um and i think it would be an interesting movie but i'll just have to see it one day i hope so

French: um and um also i love um um game of thrones too that was i think that was my favorite one until i actually watched um peaky blinders