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D I work for a water sports company.
I teach sailing, canoeing, diving - that
sort of thing.
L You've been diving, haven't you?
C No, I haven't, actually. It sounds a bit too
dangerous to me.
D Oh, it's not really, not if you know what
you're doing. And what do you do,
Charlie?
C I work for Getaway Holidays, you know,
the package tour company. It's a boring
office job, really, but the money's OK.
D Oh, right.
L Well, I know something you two have got
in common.
D Oh, what's that?
L You both support Manchester United.
C Really? Well, you'll have to come round
and watch a match sometime.
D That would be nice, thanks. It was a great
match yesterday, wasn't it?
C Yes, it was. They played really well - and
three brilliant goals.
R Isn't it amazing? You put two men
together, and after five minutes they're
already talking about football.
D It's how we communicate.
C Yeah, and it means we never have to talk
about our feelings.
R Very funny.
L I'm getting hungry. You haven't ordered
any food yet, have you?
R No, we haven't. We were waiting for you.
Shall we go and get some menus?
L Yeah, good idea. You two can talk about
football while we're gone.
R And keep an eye on Harry.
C Yeah, of course ... Why does that always
happen? You don't have any kids, do you?
D No, I don't. One day, maybe.
C Well, I wouldn't hurry if I were you. I
haven't had a good night's sleep for six
months. What's the matter, little man?
Do you want mummy to change you
when she gets back? Do you?
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PRESENTER Welcome to Cover to Cover.
Today we're talking about Carl Honore's
book In Praise of Slow, which tells us
that we're all living too fast and working
too hard, and that we should all just
slow down. With me are two journalists,
Kim Mayhew and Rob Davis - both
workaholics, of course. Kim, what did
you think of the book?
KIM I thought it was very interesting and
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quite funny in places too.
ANSWERS 2 I must 3 Are you able to
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4 I'm supposed to 5 don't have to 6 Are you
ROB Well, as soon as I finished it, I decided
allowed to 7 can 8 have to 9 ought to
that I must take more time off work.
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K Yes, me too. Honore says people should
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P And do you think that's a good idea?
K Yes, definitely. Firstly, a lot of people are I'm blogging from a busy stre•et food market. I
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unemployed these days, as we know, so I'm sitting in one of Mexico City's busy
if everyone worked fewer hours, it might parks. I Now I'm wrlting a bo•ok abo•ut stre•et
create more jobs. fo•od. I We're working in Mexico for a few
R But according to Honore, people are days. I My blog is becoming more popular
already working less in some countries. every year. I More pe•ople are visiting
For example, Germans spend 15% less Th; iland on holiday these days.
time at work now than in 1980.
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spend more time with our families. [words in pink = weak forms]
K And that's already happening in some MAN How many pe•ople do you know who
countries too, isn't it? It says in the book have tro•uble slee ping at night? For many
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R Yes, and Honore also says people can WOMAN Yes, and with us today is sle.ep
get their best ideas when they're doing scientist, Doctor Angela Mo.ore. Welcome
nothing. Albert Einstein was famous for to the programme.
just looking into space at his office at ANGELA Thank you.
Princeton University. And you can't say W Doctor Mo.ore, how much of a problem
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P Absolutely. Kim, what else interested you A well, we know tiredness can cause
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K Well, I was interested to read that ro•ad accidents in the USA are beca•use
Americans work 350 hours a year more of peo ple driving when they're tired.
than Europeans, but in some American M That's amazing!
companies, employees can sleep whenever A Yes, it !s, isn't it? And when you think
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pressure to meet deadlines. Apparently can say t ey res eepmg ess!
60% of British people who were A I'm SUre a lot of parents would say that.
interviewed said they didn't take all their
paid holiday. Now that's just crazy! ctually, scientists now belreve te·enagers
R And these days of course we're able to ne·ed abo.ut an ho9ur more sle.ep than
adults.
continue working when we're travelling.
A Yes, it's beca•use their bodies are still
You know, on the train or on a plane or w Really?
whatever.
growing. Of course, te•enagers don't
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chi dren - t ey need the most s eep. It's
working too hard'.
actually older people who generally need
P On that happy note, we'll leave it there.
the least amo·unt of sleep.
W That's very interesting.
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