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W:What I don't understand is why you haven't got more hobbies-your friends seem to havelots of different things they like doing,don't they?M:That's not...well,anyway,they're just things you do inside,you know,collecting stamps,Imean so boring,or like computer games.I'm just not interested in that kind of thingW:Yes,well,I do understand that,but actually I'm quite pleased about the computer games.There's table tennis:now,you can play that indoors.And you are great at that,aren't you?M:Oh Mum,I used to be,but now I'm completely out of practice.I'd lose to anyone.W:So maybe you should go and get some practice.Text 9M:Hey,is that you Joan?I can't believe it!W:Johnson!I haven't seen you for ages.It's so good to run into you like this!M:That's for sure!So,what are you doing these days?Are you still going to the health club?W:Not any more.We've moved to Eastgate.M:Eastgate!That's twenty kilometres from here!W:Yeah,I know.So I've got a long drive to work these days.But we bought a really big housewith a nice garden.M:Great!You're a landscape gardener,aren't you?So you'd be working much more in thesummer.W:Uh huh.But actually I've been working as a city planner for the last year or so.M:Oh...Why did you change jobs?W:Well...Two years ago I was working so hard that I never had any time to be with my kids.They were growing up really quickly,but I was always driving around from one project to thenext.So I was hardly ever spending time at home.M:Well,it's better now,I expect.You're working for the city,I suppose.W:You mean in the planning department?No,actually I'm running my own company.Text 10W:This is the 6 o'clock news for Tuesday 25 November.And first the headlines:The government has promised to help the poor farmers in the northern part of the country whohaven't seen rain for nearly two years.And in Sydney a group of school children are successfullyrescued from a plane which landed in the sea shortly after take-off.Transport workers are onstrike in Melbourne asking for a pay raise.And the strike may spread to other states.Now let's focus on the school children.They were travelling in a plane from Sydney toQueensland to take part in a musical concert.They found themselves swimming for the shorewhen their plane had to land in the sea just three minutes after taking off from Sydney Airport.The pilot managed to bring the aircraft and its 50 passengers down safely in the calm waters of4