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Full video: Unit 10: Talking about Neighborhood Places- there is/are (ESL video)

Course: Around the neighborhoodSection: Neighborhood places and convenienceSubtitles: en

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Is your neighborhood convenient?

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Yes, very convenient.

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Is there a supermarket or bank or

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drugstore in your neighborhood?

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All of those things. Yes.

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Is there a laundromat or post office?

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Yes. Yes.

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Is your neighborhood convenient?

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I don't I don't live around here. I live

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up in the valley. So, uh, not really.

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No, the 101 is a terrible terrible

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existence of a highway.

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Um, is there a supermarket, bank,

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drugstore in your neighborhood? What is

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there in your neighborhood?

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I my apartment complex, uh, right

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downstairs is a 7-Eleven. Across the

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street there's a supermarket. So, that's

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very convenient. Okay. Is there a post

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office or laundromat?

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Post office? Uh, that's a bit a drive

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away. Laundromat. I don't know. Okay.

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Is your neighborhood convenient?

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Yeah, my neighborhood's very convenient.

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I live um in Eagle Rock on the edge of

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Highland Park.

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What is there in your neighborhood?

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There are a lot of houses in my

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neighborhood. Um mostly it's residential

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and um then there are stores and

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restaurants and

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um bars and different kinds of things.

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Is your neighborhood convenient?

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It is. Yes.

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What is there in your neighborhood?

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There's stores down this, you know,

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close by. There's gas stations, uh home

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improvement stores.

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Um, nothing like Target or any of that

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stuff. I do have to drive some ways to

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get to those. Um, but just the necessary

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things to get me by every week.

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Okay. So, is there a supermarket, post

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office, laundromat, those types of

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places?

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Yes, there is. Yes.

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Are there mostly houses or apartments or

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condos?

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Uh, where I live, there's mostly houses

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and when you get to the um busier

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streets, you do see more of the

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apartments.

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Is your neighborhood convenient?

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Oh, yeah. It's convenient. There's a lot

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of things that are within walking

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distance. Post office, the store, the

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bank, the bus stop, the metro, all that.

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Great.

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And are there mostly houses or

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apartments or condos?

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It's a mix of both.

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Is your neighborhood convenient?

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Yes, very. Yeah.

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What is there in your neighborhood?

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Just everything you can imagine. We live

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just a few few blocks away from Ventura

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Boulevard and there's just everything

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there.

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So there's a supermarket, post office,

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there's a mall, there's a post office,

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everything.

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And are there mostly houses or

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apartments or condos?

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Mostly houses in uh in in our in our

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neighborhood, but uh the the apartments

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are on the major streets nearby.

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