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              Sun and Surf

Perhaps you or some of your friends cannot swim. Australian children would love if they knew you couldn't swim at your age! They learn to swim as part of their school curriculum and swimming, boating and surfing are all extremely popular. 

The whole Australian coastline, 19.200 km , is rich in golden sandy beaches and rolling surf  and everywhere in the country summer holidays normally mean camping or caravanning alone the coast by the sea. Also big towns , like Melbourne and Adelide, have long suburban beaches in bays sheltered from the ocean , while Sydney and Perth are well-known for having surf beaches on their doorstep.

Australians love lazing on the beach not only in the sunshine ; on very hot summer evenings many families go to the beach to relax , to swim or to enjoy a picnic in the cool. And if swimming is a popular pastime , best of all young Austalians love riding on big waves on surf boards .They will proudly tell you that  their waves are the biggest , the most dangerous and the best surfing waves in the world. 

Many young people , both boys and girls , spend all their spare time surf riding.They drive up and down the coast , sleeping by the beach,looking for the right  winds and tides to give them perfect waves.

 At all main  Australian beaches life-savers are placed to warn of sharks and to look out for anyone who gets dragged out by currents.The life-savers do their work for fun, not for money ; they have to be very good  swimmers and each beach takes great pride in its

life-saving team. They regularly hold competitions known as Surf Carnivals. Rival life-savers's clubs compete in swimming , rescue works and life-saving techniques and in surf boat racing. 

1 Why would Australian children laugh at you if they knew you couldn't swim ?

2 Where do Australians usually spend their summer holidays ?

3 What do  Australians do at the beach ?

4 What is the  whole Australian coast line rich in ?

5 Why do you think surfing is so popular among young Australians ?

6 What do life-savers do ?

7  What do you have to do to become a life-saver ?

8 How do Australians spend hot summer evenings ?

9 What is a surf Carnival ?

10 How do many young  Australians spend their spare time ?