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What do you think about rugby, and why?
- Liz: I like rugby. Do you watch rugby?
- Lyndon: I don’t really like rugby. No, I find it too complicated.
- Liz: Did you play it at school?
- Lyndon: Yes, I think I did. But the only thing I remember about the game was waiting in the line. You always had to wait in lines. The line-out1.
- Liz: And the line out. You and the line-out.
- Lyndon: Yes!
- Cheryl: What does that mean?
- Lyndon: I think there are two types of rugby: the rugby league and rugby union. And we played the one that’s not very popular. Of course!
- Liz: The more violent one.
- Lyndon: The more, the more American football type one, I think.
- Liz: The more violent!
- Cheryl: Do they wear pads2 and protective gear?
- Lyndon: No! We just get beaten up. It’s very violent.
- Liz: I think maybe chin3 pads. Chin pads?
- Lyndon: Nothing!
- Liz: You didn’t have chin pads?
- Lyndon: No protection!
- Liz: Oh! Maybe chin pads, I don’t know. But at school, we didn’t have much protection at all! I think now, when I watch international players,
they sometimes are strapped up and they have a skull cap and...
- Lyndon: Yeah!
- Liz: But even for hockey we didn’t have… We had chin pads, if you were lucky.
- Lyndon: Oh, that’s true! Hockey is even more violent that rugby isn’t it?
- Liz: It is, especially at school.
1 the line-out: la touche
2 a pad: une protection
3 chin: le menton
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