Programme 9
Text Three
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Intermediate English Course Programme 9 Text Three |
| Betty | Why weren't you at the German class last night, Joan? Have you given up? |
| Joan | Well, no... I came back late yesterday and found
Simon asleep in the chair. He'd been writing reports an day
long and he was too worn out to go out again, so we gave the lesson a miss. |
| Betty | You've missed quite a lot of lessons lately, haven't you? Are you losing your enthusiasm? |
| Joan | Yes, I'm afraid so. Neither Simon nor I have a gift for languages. People just laugh at us when we attempt to speak German. How did you and Erie pick it up so quickly and easily? You've hardly been in Germany a month. |
| Betty | It was neither quick nor easy, I assure you. We'd both stud led the language before we came, and we only needed to brush it up a bit. |
| Joan | Anyway, all our friends here speak English fluently so we don't really need to learn German. |
| Betty | Well, Eric and I have been both learning and teaching languages for years and we enjoy it immensely. |
| Joan | Well, keep it up! I'm all for teaching foreigners English, if it saves me the trouble of learning foreign languages myself. |
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