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Full video: Unit 11: Talking about Neighborhood Issues- Count/Non-count nouns (ESL video)

Course: Around the neighborhoodSection: Neighborhood issuesSubtitles: en

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foreign

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buses in your neighborhood just uh on

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the major streets which is a block away

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definitely

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is there much noise in your neighborhood

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it's fairly quiet

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is there much crime or graffiti

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well we've had some problems in the past

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but uh the police have been very uh very

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helpful and uh it's uh We've cleaned

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we've cleaned it up pretty well

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are there many buses in your

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neighborhood

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um yeah there's a lot of bus routes in

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my neighborhood

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is there much noise

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um no I would say an average amount of

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noise in the city yeah

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is there much traffic in your

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neighborhood not too bad no

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is there much graffiti

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no there isn't very much graffiti

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is there enough parking in your

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neighborhood yes there is enough parking

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are there many buses in your

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neighborhood

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I don't know I don't take public

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transportation really

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is there much noise in your neighborhood

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oh yeah

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oh yeah I I live next to a fire station

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so

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I wake up early sometimes with against

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my own will

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is there much traffic

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um locally in the local streets uh

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sometimes during the morning hours

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highways were the capital of traffic 101

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and 405 intersection

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is there much graffiti

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in my neighborhood not really I haven't

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seen any

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is there much crime

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a few streets East uh is a city called

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Van Nuys there's a little more crime

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there but I haven't personally seen

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anything

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is there enough parking in your

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neighborhood

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I we have gated parking so thank God

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there's a spot for me

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are there many buses in your

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neighborhood

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um the buses are not on my street so I

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don't I'm not particularly aware of them

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but yeah there are buses on the Main

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Street which is York Boulevard and Eagle

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Rock Boulevard

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is there enough parking in your

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neighborhood

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mostly there is enough parking in my

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neighborhood yeah

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are there many buses in your

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neighborhood yes there are a lot of uh I

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think there's I believe there's three

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different lines on the Main Street so

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yes is there enough parking

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yes parking is actually great

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and is there much traffic crime or

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graffiti like I said not too much crime

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very very seldom I see graffiti once in

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a while you do a little bit is there

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much traffic in your neighborhood uh

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it's all right it's not too bad but yeah

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it's it's doable

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are there many buses in your

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neighborhood there are quite a few

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because it's really close to we live

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close to Colorado so all the Metro buses

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run up and down Colorado

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where we live yeah

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yeah is there much traffic in your

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neighborhood there's quite a bit of

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traffic because Colorado like I said is

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very close and there's Colorado is it

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Main Street

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so yeah

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is there much crime or graffiti uh

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there's a little bit of graffiti here

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and there but I don't think that there's

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a whole lot of crime you know

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what do you like about your neighborhood

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um my neighborhood is still fairly

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affordable

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I'm right now trying to buy a house in

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my neighborhood

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and

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it's just it's kind of quiet and and but

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but there's lots it's comfortable for

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the kids

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and it's just a comfortable neighborhood

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is there anything that you don't like

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about your neighborhood

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there's a little bit of gang activity in

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parts of my neighborhood which is a

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little scary but generally it's fairly

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safe

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what do you like about your neighborhood

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I like that it's quiet I like that it's

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uh up by the mountains

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uh the neighbors are very nice people

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it's uh pretty much I've lived there for

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about three and a half years and

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I don't know of any crimes that ever

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happened there so I'm pretty I'm pretty

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pleased

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is there anything that you don't like

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about your neighborhood

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that I don't like about my neighborhood

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uh I guess like I said there's no you

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know Target or the more convenience

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stores like that but other than that no

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there it's

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it's I'm happy

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what do you like about your neighborhood

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uh I like that it's that everything's

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really close by and it's relatively safe

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compared to other parts of the city

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there's not a lot of problems there

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is there anything you don't like about

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your neighborhood

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it's expensive to buy a house there

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and I want to buy a house so

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what do you like about your neighborhood

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it's it's quiet uh the and the the

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neighbors are very friendly we we know

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almost all the Neighbors on our block

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and uh we like we we get along very well

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is there anything you don't like about

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your neighborhood

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the cars some people drive a bit too

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fast

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