[00:01.080]--- Lesson 36 Across the Channel
[00:07.600]--- First listen and then answer the question.
[00:14.000]--- What is Debbie going to try to do?
[00:20.280]Debbie Hart is going to swim across the English Channel tomorrow.
[00:26.320]She is going to set out from the French coast at five o'clock in the morning.
[00:33.280]Debbie is only eleven years old and she hopes to set up a new world record.
[00:40.880]She is a strong swimmer and many people feel that she is sure to succeed.
[00:48.440]Debbie's father will set out with her in a small boat.
[00:54.120]Mr.Hart has trained his daughter for years.
[00:58.920]Tomorrow he will be watching her anxiously as she swims the long distance to England.
[01:07.360]Debbie intends to take short rests every two hours.
[01:12.800]She will have something to drink but she will not eat any solid food.
[01:19.000]Most of Debbie's school friends will be waiting for her on the English coast.
[01:25.120]Among them will be Debbie's mother, who swam the Channel herself when she was a girl.
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