Speaker 1 Speaker 2

Man:   I went on a canoeing course last weekend, rather against my better judgement, because although I enjoy swimming, I thought canoeing might be too difficult. And I was right. I really couldn’t get the hang of it. I bet the tutors will remember me: not because I was one of their star students, far from it, but I fell out of the canoe more often than everyone else put together! But even so, I enjoyed it so much that when some of the group signed up to do another course together, in six months’ time, I found myself signing up too. I bet the tutors refuse to teach me next timer

Woman:   It was really good fun: 15 people from all sorts of backgrounds, all desperately trying to speak Italian to each other, and most of us were absolute beginners. We kept falling about laughing, but actually it did get a lot easier by the last day, and the tutors were awfully patient. It was held in a big house in the country which now belongs to a university, and the whole thing was brilliant. In fact I don’t know how they can do it for what they charged, because it was almost like staying in a luxury hotel. Maybe it was subsidised by the university.