Across the Channel

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[00:14.19]Lesson 36
[00:15.52]Across the Channel
[00:18.59]Debbie Hart is going to swim across the English Channel tomorrow.
[00:23.53]She is going to set out from the French coast at five o'clock in the morning.
[00:29.17]Debbie is only eleven years old and she hopes to set up a new world record.
[00:35.59]She is a strong swimmer and many people feel that she is sure to succeed.
[00:42.28]Debbie's father will set out with her in a small boat.
[00:46.11]Mr.Hart has trained his daughter for years.
[00:49.82]Tomorrow he will be watching her anxiously
[00:52.95]as she swims the long distance to England.
[00:56.66]Debbie intends to take short rests every two hours.
[01:01.17]She will have something to drink but she will not eat any solid food.
[01:06.72]Most of Debbie's school friends will be waiting for her on the English coast.
[01:12.68]Among them will be Debbie's mother,
[01:15.09]who swam the Channel herself when she was a girl.
 
What is Debbie going to try to do?