Josh and Léo: listen and complete

Josh: Léo! Hey, mate! Can you me?
Léo: Yeah, loud and ! Hey, Josh! Long time no see. So, how was your ?
Josh: Honestly? It was alright… ish. We to Cornwall: me, my mum, my dad and my little , Ruby.
Léo: Cornwall? That's in the south-west of England, right? How long did you there?
Josh: Two weeks. We a cottage in a tiny near Newquay. And there was no Wi-Fi, mate. Literally no Wi-Fi. I nearly .
Léo: No way! So what did you all day?
Josh: Well, my dad surfing for me and Ruby. On the first day, I off the board about fifty times. And Ruby up straight away. She's nine! It was so .
Léo: Did you better?
Josh: Yeah, by the end of the week, I some proper . It was sick, not gonna lie. But then it for five days. Five days! We inside and board games with my parents. Dead boring.
Léo: Did you fish and chips on the ?
Josh: Pretty much every day. And Cornish pasties, of course.
Léo: What's a Cornish pasty?
Josh: It's a big with meat, potatoes and onions inside. In the old days, took them down the tin mines for lunch. People say they the thick crust with their dirty hands, and it away at the end.
Léo: Clever! And did you a cream tea?
Josh: Every afternoon! with and clotted cream. In Cornwall, you put the jam , then the cream. In Devon, next door, it's the other way round. People get really about it!
Léo: Cornwall sounds like a different !
Josh: Kind of. There are black and white everywhere: the flag of Cornwall. And some people still Cornish, an old language, a bit like Breton.
Léo: So, not that boring, then!
Josh: No, OK. But a seagull my ice cream in St Ives! It just it out of my hand.
Léo: Seriously?
Josh: Swear down. Ruby it, and now my mum the video to everyone. Anyway, what about you? You went to Malta, didn't you?

Léo: Yes! I went on a stay with an organisation, for three weeks. My parents me to my English.
Josh: Your English is already good, bro. Did you go on your ?
Léo: Yeah, I from Marseille on my own. I was a bit at the airport, but a guy from the organisation us when we .
Josh: Where did you ? In a hotel?
Léo: No, I stayed with a family, the Borgs. They were really nice. The mum pasta every evening, and I a room with a Spanish boy, Pablo.
Josh: Do people English in Malta?
Léo: Yes, it's an language, with Maltese. Maltese sounds a bit like , but it's got lots of Italian words, and they write it with our alphabet. And Malta was a British until nineteen sixty-four, so they drive on the , and there are red boxes, like in London!
Josh: Sick! England, but with sunshine. And did you have every day?
Léo: Every , from nine to one. My teacher was Irish, and she was really . In the afternoons, we went to the beach, or we old towns, like Valletta and Mdina. And one day, we took a to the Blue Lagoon. The water was so ! I for hours.
Josh: That sounds well good. And what about the ?
Léo: Amazing. My was pastizzi: little pastries with or peas. They less than one euro!
Josh: Pastizzi? Sounds like our pasties! Did you any friends?
Léo: Loads! Italians, Germans, a girl from Japan… We English all the time, because it was our only language. That's how I real English, not school English. Like « innit », and « that's peak ».
Josh: Who you « peak »?
Léo: Pablo. He a lot of British YouTubers.
Josh: Classic. Was there anything you didn't ?
Léo: The ! One day, it was thirty-eight . And I my phone on the bus… but the driver it. Lucky me.
Josh: Mate, I'm so . Next summer, I want , not rain and seagulls.
Léo: So come to France! We could go on the Mediterranean . My cousin knows a near Montpellier, right by the sea.
Josh: Wait, for ? Just us? No parents?
Léo: Maybe my big can come with us. He's nineteen, and he's got a .
Josh: That would be epic! I could bring my !
Léo: There aren't many on the Mediterranean, Josh.
Josh: Then I'll you bodyboarding. Or we'll just on the beach. I'll my parents tonight.
Léo: Deal. I'll you the link to the campsite. And you'll see: in France, is at eight o'clock, not at six!
Josh: Eight? I'll ! Right, I've got to go: it's six o'clock, and my mum's me. Laters!
Léo: Bye, Josh! Say hi to Ruby… and to the !

Josh in CornwallWe (rent) a cottage in a tiny village.
On the first day, I (fall) off the board about fifty times.
Ruby (stand) up straight away.
By the end of the week, I (catch) some proper waves.
Then it (rain) for five days.
In the old days, miners (take) pasties down the tin mines, and they (throw) the crust away.
We (try) a cream tea every afternoon.
A seagull (steal) my ice cream, and Ruby (film) it.
Léo in MaltaI (fly) from Marseille on my own.
A guy from the organisation (meet) us when we (land).
Malta (be) a British colony until nineteen sixty-four.
I (swim) for hours.
We (speak) English all the time.
That's how I (learn) real English.
Pablo (teach) me « peak ».
I (lose) my phone on the bus, but the driver (find) it.