DICTATION 2

       Surprisingly many English people go on holiday only to return in need of another one. People who normally live quiet, ordinary lives, traveling to and from their work everyday, watching television in the evenings and doing a little gardening on Sundays, decided to take holidays that require the training and fitness of an athlete.

       Some are astonished and angry because at the end of a couple of days, they ache all over, have pains in their joints and blisters on their heels.

       Others, accustomed to our cool, rainy summers, spend their time abroad burning themselves in the sun, and eating foreign foods which upset their digestions. The doctor’s surgery is always full of returned holiday-makers in September. Personally my ideal holiday is staying at home and reading books which carry me farther than any summer journey.