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• At • On week-ends in the summer, thousands of British working-class people go to • take • spend a day at the seaside.

If they live • at • in London, they go to Brighton or Margate; if they live •in • on the North of England, they go to Blackpool.

The family gets • off • up very early.

The wife • does • makes sandwiches and packs blankets and thermos flasks of tea.

Then they drive • slow •slowly to • the • a sea in a line of cars twenty miles • wide • long — or stand in a train full of •other • another people who • go • are going to the seaside.

When they get to the sea, they hurry • because • to find a place on the beach.

They cover a wide part of the beach • by • with their bags, their towels, their books and newspapers and their children; then they sit • down • up in deck-chairs.

The husband • puts •takes a handkerchief over • his • the face; the wife puts • up • on a hat.

Round them, footballs fly, wet dogs run, children fight and radios play; but they sit there • quiet • quietly with their eyes • shut • shout and slowly • come • become red.

Every hour, they go to • put • take their feet in the sea.

• They've got • They have lunch on the beach.

The sandwiches get sand in them, and the children drop • theirs; • their; dogs come and • ate • eat the cold meat; they've usually • forgotten • forgot the bottle-opener.

But they enjoy their lunch. "Food's always • better • well by the sea," they say.

It's often cold and wet in Britain in the summer; but • bad • a bad weather doesn't • stopping • stop the British from going to the seaside.

They sit in shelters • nearly • near the beach and • look at • look the sea.

It's raining • out of • outside the shelter, but they put their blankets round them and eat their sandwiches and try • smile. • to smile.

"It's • making • doing us good! " they say.

The children aren't allowed to • tell • say they • don't • aren't like it.

"Mum... It's cold! " "Be quiet, and enjoy • himself! " • yourself!".

Another thing that the British like to • make • do at week-ends is to • have • have got picnics.

They • take • put sandwiches, cold meat, cakes and thermos flasks in a bag and drive to • a • the country.

They find • some • a grass and put • on • down a tablecloth.

Then they sit •across • round the tablecloth and eat their lunch.

There are flies and wasps; cows come and eat the sandwiches; often it rains.

But they say it's better • as • than lunch in a room.

Some people even • have • have got picnics in their gardens • so that • although they needn't • travel • to travel to the country!

 

 

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