[00:03.44]Unit 12 Culture Shock Warm-up

[00:07.67]Exercise 2 Listen to three people talking.

[00:12.70]Which country are they from?

[00:15.80]1 Our typical way of life?

[00:19.01]Well,we're a beach culture,you know.

[00:22.44]We spend a lot of time at the beach,

[00:25.68]surfing,swimming,eating,partying-

[00:30.33]we even have our Christmas dinner

[00:32.73]on the beach,you know!

[00:35.05]It's the weather,you see,

[00:37.16]always lots of sunshine.

[00:39.47]And as for free time,

[00:41.42]we're just crazy about sport--

[00:44.85]cricket, rugby,tennis.

[00:48.24]I guess most of us spend our holidays

[00:51.17]on the coast in our country-

[00:53.81]it's very expensive to go abroad, you know.

[00:57.09]Everywhere's just so far away!

[01:00.81]2 Well,it's a big,big country,

[01:04.87]so it's kind of hard to say what's typical.

[01:08.65]Like the weather

[01:10.15]we've got all kinds of different climates.

[01:13.38]Our way of life,well,

[01:15.40]I guess it's fast,to the food is fast,too,

[01:18.45]lots of hamburgers and hot dogs.What else?

[01:23.90]Er, I guess we watch a lot of TV

[01:27.30]in our free time-three are hundreds of

[01:30.04]channels on 24 hours a day.

[01:33.75]Er, we go to the movies a lot,too.

[01:37.59]And sport is very big.

[01:40.05]Our basketball and football stars

[01:42.62]earn millions of dollars.

[01:45.69]Most of us go on holiday in our own country,

[01:50.08]it's so big and there are so many wonderful

[01:53.44]places to visit.You should come and visit us?

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