Exercise 2 Listen to three people talking. Which country are they from?

1. Our typical way of life?

Well, we're a beach culture, you know. We spend a lot of time at the beach, surfing, swimming, eating, partying-we even have our Christmas dinner on the beach, you know! It's the weather, you see, always lots of sunshine. And as for free time, we're just crazy about sport--cricket, rugby, tennis. I guess most of us spend our holidays on the coast in our country-it's very expensive to go abroad, you know. Every where's just so far away!

2. Well, it's a big, big country, so it's kind of hard to say what's typical. Like the weather we've got all kinds of different climates. Our way of life, well, I guess it's fast, to the food is fast, too, lots of hamburgers and hot dogs. What else? Er, I guess we watch a lot of TV in our free time-there are hundreds of channels on 24 hours a day. Er, we go to the movies a lot, too. And sport is very big. Our basketball and football stars earn millions of dollars. Most of us go on holiday in our own country, it's so big and there are so many wonderful places to visit. You should come and visit us?