Programme 12
Text Two
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Intermediate English Course Programme 12 Text Two |
| Jane | Wherever have you been, Patrick? I haven't seen you for months. Someone said you'd emigrated. |
| Patrick | Whoever told you that? I've been working on a weather research station on the Isle of Collett. |
| Jane | Where on earth is that? |
| Patrick | It's a lump of rock about 100 miles north-west of Ireland. |
| Jane | Whatever did you do to pass the time? |
| Patrick | Fortunately I had my university thesis to work on. If I hadn't had a pile of work to do, I'd have gone off my head. |
| Jane | Was there anything else to do? |
| Patrick | Well, if you were a bird watcher, it would be a paradise; but whenever I got tired of studying, I could only walk round the island - and that took me less than twenty minutes. |
| Jane | How ever did you stand it? If I'd been in your shoes I'd have taken the first boat back to civilisation. |
| Patrick | Well, I needed some information from my research there, and they paid me, so I saved some money. Now I can have a short holiday before I start looking for a job. |
| Jane | Have you finished your Ph.D. already? I thought ? had another year to do. |
| Patrick | No, time flies, you know. As long as they don't reject my thesis, I'll be leaving for London next week |
| Jane | If I were you, I'd go off to the Mediterranean or somewhere before starting work. |
| Patrick | No thanks, I'll stay in London. I've had enough of the sea for a while. |
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