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AN AUSTRALIAN GIRL IN LONDON script CD1 Track 4

An Australian girl is talking about her gap year in Britain.


Ive been living in the UK for about two months now and Ive been experiencing as much
Britishness as I can. Tea, cricket, the English pub that sort of thing. The country is completely
different to home (Australias home for me) and since Ive been here Ive really wanted to immerse
myself in British culture. Its famous for it after all.
So far Ive been to a couple of football games, a couple of local festivals (how many beer festivals are
there in this country?) and sight-seeing in and around London.
From what Ive seen so far the UK is completely unique.
I loved Nelsons Column its very big. In fact, everything in London is big the Houses of
Parliament, the London Eye, Trafalgar Square even Big Ben lives up to its name!
Theres so much history and so much going on. When I heard about Notting Hill Carnival I knew I had
to go because I was told that Notting Hill Carnival epitomizes UK multiculturalism because here we
have in London city the second largest carnival in the world after Rio, organized by the Caribbean
community in London.
What would visitors say about France? Paris?
RECAP: In what way do people from different countries differ?

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