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Todd discusses living in his house in Japan, which also serves as the headquarters for elllo.org. He describes having a large, older home with four rooms including a tatami room where guests can sit and eat. The house also has a living room for watching sports, three bathrooms including an outdoor hot spring bath, and a small yard. Todd expresses that he is very happy living in his Japanese-style home.

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Todd discusses living in his house in Japan, which also serves as the headquarters for elllo.org. He describes having a large, older home with four rooms including a tatami room where guests can sit and eat. The house also has a living room for watching sports, three bathrooms including an outdoor hot spring bath, and a small yard. Todd expresses that he is very happy living in his Japanese-style home.

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Todd talks about his house in Japan which is also the headquarters of elllo.org.

Meg: Hey, Todd, where do you ________?

Todd: I live on the east side of ____________.

Meg: Oh. Do you like it ________?

Todd: I do. I live in an older house. But it's a big house, and it's really ____________. It's a nice
place to live.

Meg: Wow. Sounds nice. How many ________ does it have?

Todd: My house is pretty big. It's four rooms. It has a big ____________ room. It's a Japanese
house. So it's not really a bedroom because you sleep on the ________.

Meg: Oh.

Todd: But it also has a living ________. It has, like, an office room and it has a ____________

Meg: Is it a big kitchen?

Todd: No, it's a pretty ________ kitchen and it's a very old kitchen. I have a small ________. So
it's very difficult to cook. But, you know, I have a refrigerator. I have a microwave. I have a
nice kitchen ________ to eat at. So it's a pretty decent kitchen.

Meg: It sounds okay. What about your __________ room? What do you have in the living room?

Todd: My living room, it's pretty cool for a guy because it's a good place to ________ sports. I
have a really big TV, and I have ________ TV, so I get all the football channels.

Meg: Nice.

Todd: And I have a really big sofa, so I can ________ on my sofa and watch sports and ________
beer. It's great.

Meg: Sounds relaxing.

Todd: Very relaxing.

Meg: Well, do you also ________ a nice bathroom?

Todd: I do. I actually have three _____________.

Meg: Oh, really?

Todd: It's kind of crazy, yes. So in English, we say bathroom, but I have two rooms ________
are for the toilet, and I have one room or the bathroom with the toilet for the __________. And
then I have a bathroom that I use. And then also I have a ___________ hot spring bath outside

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my house. So if I want to ________ a shower or bathe, I use that room.

Meg: Wow. I'd love to have a hot spring at my house.

Todd: Yeah, it's very nice. It's very, very nice.

Meg: Does ________ house also have a yard?

Todd: It kind of has a yard. So outside my house, there's an area for ___________ and bushes.
And it's like a yard or a garden __________ the house, but it's not a place you can play
__________. There's no grass or anything. So it's a very, very small yard. But, you know, it's a
nice ________.

Meg: Oh yeah. It __________ like a nice place to live.

Todd: It is a nice place to live. I'm very, very ________.

Meg: You said you have a sleeping room, not a bedroom. What does that ________?

Todd: Yeah. I live at a Japanese style house. So it's __________ the tatami room. And you sleep
in the tatami room and you ________ on the floor on a futon. So I don't have a bed. So it's not a
bedroom. It's a room that you sit in during the ________ and you can eat and ________ with
guests. But it's also a room that you sleep in at ________. So yeah, I call it my sleeping room.
But I think in Japan, they just ________ it the tatami room.

Meg: Is it comfortable ____________ on the floor?

Todd: Yeah, it's really comfortable. Now I love it. So before, I slept on a ________. But now I
sleep on the futon on the ________ and I really like it. Actually, I prefer to sleep on the ________
on the floor.

Meg: Well, it sounds ________ your house is really comfortable.

Todd: It is. It is. I never want to ________.

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