Todd: OK, Mark, I thought we would talk about television. The theme this week will be TV.

Mark: OK.

Todd: First of all, how much television do you watch a day?

Mark: Per day? In Japan?

Todd: Yeah.

Mark: Not so much because my Japanese is not so good so recently I've been watching TV via the internet on a PC.

Todd: Oh, really.

Mark: Yeah, but if I for example have SKY TV, satellite TV maybe five or six hours per day.

Todd: Whoa!

Mark: Yeah, especially news. I love watching news programs.

Todd: OK, so you watch five to six hours of television.

Mark: If I am free. On a Saturday. One the weekends.

Todd: A weekend type thing. And the thing you enjoy watching most is news?

Mark: I like news programs also sports. Yeah.

Todd: Sports! What kinds of sports?

Mark: Any sports really, I watch on TV. Yeah, football, basketball, baseball, American football.

Todd: Right. Here's a question, so you think it's better to watch sport on TV or to watch it live?

Mark: Oh, definitely live.

Todd: Oh, you think so.

Mark: Yeah, but it's pretty expensive to watch live.

Todd: Right.

Mark: Definitely live.

Todd: I don't know. I'm kind of the other way. Like, except for baseball, cause I'm a huge baseball fan, but every other sport in America, basketball and American football, I think it's better to watch on TV.

Mark: Actually, I prefer both. So I go to the game and watch it live and then afterwards I can watch the replay on TV to look at the main place of the game. Obviously when you are watching it on TV you are a lot closer to the action.

Todd: Right. Well, you have the thrill of the crowd and all of that, but especially like American football, there's so many close plays and this and that, plus American football is terrible to watch live because during the commercial breaks there is just nothing going on. You know? So you are better off being home and watching a commercial I think.

Mark: Right. Yeah, and you can go for a beer or maybe a cup of tea at commercial. Actually, a few.. about a year ago I recently got contact lens because my eyes weren't so good, but when I was going to the football stadium, I couldn't see. You were so far away. But I didn't realize that my eyes were so bad. I thought they were just very far away until I got contact lens, and then suddenly I could see all the game. So that was a big improvement.