Programme 14
Text Two
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Intermediate English Course Programme 14 Text Two |
| Andy | Have they finished work on your new swimming- pool yet, Charles? When I passed by yesterday, it was being filled with water, wasn't it? |
| Charles | That's right. We had our first swim in it this morning. The concrete path around it is going to be widened, but everything will have been completed before the end of the week. |
| Andy | You must be pleased. How long is it? |
| Charles | It's only 25 feet long and 15 feet wide, but that's big enough to cool down in, isn't it? |
| Andy | And to get a spot of exercise in. If you normally swim twenty lengths in a big pool, you can get the same benefit if you swim up and down forty or fifty times in a small one, can't you? |
| Charles | Yes, but I'm hardly aiming at getting into the Olympic team, am I? |
| Andy | How deep is it? You can't dive into it, can you? |
| Charles | Oh yes you can! It's eight feet in depth at one end The diving-board will be installed tomorrow. By til way, we're holding a swimming party on Sunday, it's not too cold. You will come, won't you? |
| Andy | I'd love to come, but I'm not much of a swimmer and I can barely dive at all. I'll probably drown. |
| Charles | Well, I'm hardly the world's best swimmer myself. Anyway there'll be plenty to drink. |
| Andy | Good. I'd rather drown in beer than in water. |
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