Swimming
Jun 29, 2026 17:45
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Hello,
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I'm Rob.
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And I'm Callum.
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And this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Today, we're talking about swimming.
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Now,
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Callum, how old were you when you started to swim?
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I suppose before 10,
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before I was 10,
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I think.
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Quite young.
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Yeah.
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Well, swimming is a very popular activity in the UK,
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but according to a recent survey,
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one in five adults in the UK cannot swim.
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What's more,
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millions of children in the UK can't swim a length of a pool.
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I think most people recognise that swimming is very important for safety and
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good for fitness.
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But maybe some people weren't introduced to the water early enough
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and they don't have the confidence to start swimming later in life.
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In a moment,
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we'll hear from some people who coach swimming for adults and children.
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But first,
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I have this week's question for you,
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Callum. I thought you might.
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In 2007,
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the Slovenian swimmer Martin Strel broke his own
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world record for long -distance swimming.
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But what distance did he swim?
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Was it 3 ,268 kilometres,
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4 ,268 kilometres or 5 ,268
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kilometres?
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4 ,268,
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I'll say that.
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I really don't know.
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OK, well,
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we'll see if you're right at the end of the programme.
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First, let's hear from the BBC reporter,
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Sophie van Bruggen.
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She went to a swimming pool to find out more about swimming classes
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for adults and children.
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Let's have a listen to the clip.
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How many children does she say have taken swimming classes in the last
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year?
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Not everybody is confident in the water and many of us learn to swim later on
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in life.
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And in fact experts now say that the best time to learn is when we're babies and children.
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And in the last year alone over 300 ,000 little ones have
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gone through classes.
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She says that over 300 ,000 little ones have taken swimming classes.
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By little ones,
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of course, she means children or toddlers.
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Toddlers are children who are just learning to walk,
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usually when they're about two years old.
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That's right,
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and the best time to learn how to swim is when you're a baby.
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And that makes sense.
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I mean, I think a lot of babies are natural swimmers,
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so it's good for them to be in the water from an early age.
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As long as they've got proper supervision.
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Definitely.
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To supervise means to watch over something and
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the noun supervision is when someone watches over someone
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else, like a parent watching over taking care of a child.
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It really is natural for babies to be in the water and as
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long as they have the proper supervision,
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babies as young as three months old can start swimming.
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We have a clip from baby swimming teacher Jenny May.
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She says that if babies spend time swimming from the earliest opportunity,
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it becomes second nature for them to be in the water.
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Second nature.
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This is when you do something so often that it becomes
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totally natural to you.
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So when a child starts to swim very early on,
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swimming becomes second nature to them.
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OK, well let's listen to the clip.
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Listen out for the phrase second nature and see how she uses it
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in context.
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When they're under six months,
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it's just almost a natural thing for them to be under the water and then it just
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becomes second nature to them.
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So as they're older,
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they don't know any different than being under the water and being wet.
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So if a baby starts swimming early enough,
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it becomes second nature to them and they don't know any different from being underwater
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and being wet.
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But what about people who don't learn to swim when they're young?
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The one in five British adults who can't swim,
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what can they do?
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Ah, well,
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there are a number of schemes to encourage people to swim,
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including the BBC's Big Splash campaign,
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which celebrates swimming and wants to get more people into the water,
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whether they're adults or children.
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The Big Splash campaign.
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A splash is the sound that's made when something
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hits water.
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And you can hear the word making the same sound – splash.
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It's a great word.
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And there are lots of classes for adults to learn how to swim.
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Vicky Carter,
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who teaches swimming to adults,
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told the BBC about some of the techniques she uses to encourage people
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to swim.
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She suggests diving down for bricks and going through
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hoops as two methods to make swimming more fun.
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To dive here means to go under the surface of
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the water and it can also mean to jump headfirst into
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water.
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A hoop is a circular band,
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usually made of metal or plastic.
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So she suggests diving down for bricks or
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swimming through hoops as a way to make swimming more interesting.
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Right,
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it's time to go back to today's question,
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Callum.
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The Slovenian swimmer Martin Strel broke the world record for long
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-distance swimming in 2007.
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But what was its record -breaking distance?
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Was it 3 ,268 kilometres,
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4 ,268 kilometres or 5 ,268
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kilometres?
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Well, I chose 4 ,268 kilometres,
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but as just a guess,
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they are all extraordinarily long distances.
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Well,
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he actually swam 5 ,268 kilometres along
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the length of the Amazon River to break his own world record.
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Incredible.
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OK,
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well, we're almost at the end of the programme,
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so Callum,
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could you remind us of some of the vocabulary we've heard in today's programme?
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Of course,
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we had toddlers,
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to supervise...
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supervision,
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second nature,
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splash,
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to dive and
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hoops.
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Thanks,
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Callum.
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If you've enjoyed today's programme,
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why not write to us about your favourite places to swim or ways
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to make swimming more interesting for children and adults.
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OK,
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well, see you next time.
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Bye.
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That was 6 Minute English from bbclearningenglish
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