Swimming
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Rob and Callum discuss the importance of swimming, with Callum mentioning that one in five adults in the UK cannot swim, and that millions of children in the UK cannot swim a length of a pool. The conversation then shifts to a BBC reporter, Sophie van Bruggen, who interviews a baby swimming teacher, Jenny May, who explains that babies can start swimming as young as three months old with proper supervision. The clip includes the phrase "second nature" used by Jenny May to describe how swimming becomes natural for babies.
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0:03Хэсэг 1: Hello, I'm Rob. 95s · Speaker 4
Hello, I'm Rob. And I'm Callum. And this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. Today, we're talking about swimming. Now, Callum, how old were you when you started to swim? I suppose before 10, before I was 10, I think. Quite young.…
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1:39Хэсэг 2: Not everybody is confident in the water and many of us learn to swim later on in life. 95s · Speaker 6
Not everybody is confident in the water and many of us learn to swim later on in life. And in fact experts now say that the best time to learn is when we're babies and children. And in the last year alone over 300 ,000 little ones have gone…
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3:15Хэсэг 3: When they're under six months, it's just almost a natural thing for them to be under the water and then it just becomes second nature to them. 122s · Speaker 5
When they're under six months, it's just almost a natural thing for them to be under the water and then it just becomes second nature to them. So as they're older, they don't know any different than being under the water and being wet. So i…
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5:18Хэсэг 4: Well, he actually swam 5 ,268 kilometres along the length of the Amazon River to break his own world record. 50s · Speaker 4
Well, he actually swam 5 ,268 kilometres along the length of the Amazon River to break his own world record. Incredible. OK, well, we're almost at the end of the programme, so Callum, could you remind us of some of the vocabulary we've hear…