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Urban living - AIRC70
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Urban living - AIRC70
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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Sep 26, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
If you are a new listener, If this is your first time here, welcome! I'm Craig. This is Reza, and we are going to help you improve your English and take it to the next level.
In this episode: Urban living
Listener Feedback: Surferlobo on iTunes Chile (24th June)Este podcast es lo mejor que he escuchado. Los profesores hablan muy bien, se entiende perfecto lo que dicen y además son muy simpáticos y eso hace que sus clases sean muy entretenidas. Me reí por montones cuando un profesor habló en inglés pero con acento español. (5 stars)
Vocabulary: Urban living
Where people live:
flat (UK) / Apartment (US) - a block of flats / an apartment blockterraced / semi-detached (a semi) / detached a penthousea condo = condominium (US) - bloque de apartamentosa bungalowa farmhousea cottage - casita de campo, cabaña a mansiona villa - Mediterraneana tenta caravana mobile homea council house / a council estate
Collocations:
a residential areaan industrial estatea shopping/pedestrian precinct, a shopping centre (UK) / a shopping mall (US)a building site (UK) / a construction site (US)green beltshanty townlocal amenities/facilitiesred light districtChinatown
Expressions:
on the outskirtsin the suburbs/suburban areain the city centre (UK) / downtown (US)slumto sleep rough, homelessto crash (on someone’s floor)to put someone upto rent a house/flat/apartment X to rent OUT a house/flat/apartmentThe tenant rents the flat - The landlord/landlady rents OUT the flat
Adjectives:
run-down / shabbyto renovate/restore, to do up (an area or a house, flat etc)bustlinglivelypicturesquecosmopolitanprosperousinner-citydulldepressing
Have you ever been to a dull, depressing place?City life or country life? Which would you prefer?What was the area you grew up in like?
to demolish, to knock down
Is it better to demolish and rebuild or renovate and restore?
Send us a comment or question craig@inglespodcast.com or belfastreza@gmail.com.
Next episode: Listener Questions: go and come, would and could, como leer en inglés
The music in this podcast is by Pitx. The track is called 'See You Later'
In this episode: Urban living
Listener Feedback: Surferlobo on iTunes Chile (24th June)Este podcast es lo mejor que he escuchado. Los profesores hablan muy bien, se entiende perfecto lo que dicen y además son muy simpáticos y eso hace que sus clases sean muy entretenidas. Me reí por montones cuando un profesor habló en inglés pero con acento español. (5 stars)
Vocabulary: Urban living
Where people live:
flat (UK) / Apartment (US) - a block of flats / an apartment blockterraced / semi-detached (a semi) / detached a penthousea condo = condominium (US) - bloque de apartamentosa bungalowa farmhousea cottage - casita de campo, cabaña a mansiona villa - Mediterraneana tenta caravana mobile homea council house / a council estate
Collocations:
a residential areaan industrial estatea shopping/pedestrian precinct, a shopping centre (UK) / a shopping mall (US)a building site (UK) / a construction site (US)green beltshanty townlocal amenities/facilitiesred light districtChinatown
Expressions:
on the outskirtsin the suburbs/suburban areain the city centre (UK) / downtown (US)slumto sleep rough, homelessto crash (on someone’s floor)to put someone upto rent a house/flat/apartment X to rent OUT a house/flat/apartmentThe tenant rents the flat - The landlord/landlady rents OUT the flat
Adjectives:
run-down / shabbyto renovate/restore, to do up (an area or a house, flat etc)bustlinglivelypicturesquecosmopolitanprosperousinner-citydulldepressing
Have you ever been to a dull, depressing place?City life or country life? Which would you prefer?What was the area you grew up in like?
to demolish, to knock down
Is it better to demolish and rebuild or renovate and restore?
Send us a comment or question craig@inglespodcast.com or belfastreza@gmail.com.
Next episode: Listener Questions: go and come, would and could, como leer en inglés
The music in this podcast is by Pitx. The track is called 'See You Later'
Released:
Sep 26, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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