Negative adjectives

noisy

dirty

grimy

ugly

soulless

polluted

stressful

crowded

boring

dangerous

built-up

run-down

I live on the fifth floor of a 20-storey block of flats.

I live in the suburbs of...

There's not much nightlife.

My area used to be quite run-down, but it's getting better.

My city's polluted and noisy, but there's lots to do.

2. Match the words in the columns to make compound nouns describing the built environment. Then tick the ones which are within two kilometres of your home.

1 town	superstore	1 town centre
2 office	tip
3 tower	ground
4 housing	site
5 building	estate
6 waste	centre
7 industrial	block
8 out-of-town
9 rubbish

3. Describe the environment your house / flat is in. You can use some of the compound nouns you have ticked in exercise 1.

e.g. I live on the tenth floor of a tower block in Caracas. The view from the sitting room window is nice. You can see the modern office blocks and hotels in the city centre. But it’s a pain when the lift isn’t working! There s a shopping centre nearby, which is great for meeting your friends on a Saturday.

4. What do you call

1 a road which takes traffic around a town?

2 a tunnel under the road for pedestrians?

3 a street from which there is no exit?

4 the edge between the pavement and the road?

5. Which adjectives would you associate with living in the town? Which would you associate with living in the country?

Living in the town

multi-cultural

Living in the country

6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of living in a town? Choose from the adjectives in exercise 5 and the words and phrases below.

vandalism overcrowding

cultural life nightlife

graffiti pollution

traffic jams nothing to do

lots to do

Advantages

I like living / I'd like to live in the town because...

Disadvantages

But...

7a Read what Tom says about his home city, Bradford, and fill in the chart.

I live in Bradford, which is in the north of England. It's not exactly Paris or Venice, but I like it all the same! We've got the National Museum of Photography, one of the best museums in the country. And the artist David Hockney was born here. There's a Hockney gallery at Salt Mills, four miles north of the City. The centre is quite polluted, but there are some very attractive buildings, like the Alhambra Theatre, among all the grimy ones. There are loads of ethnic shops and restaurants. The city is famous for its curries. It has to be said, however, that the nightlife isn't great. If you're looking for a big night out, catch the train to Leeds!

The good things about living in Bradford The bad things about living in Bradford

the National Museum of Photography

7b Make a chart for your own town. Then write a description similar to Tom's.

The good things about living in The bad things about living in

(taken from Chris Barker Boost Your Vocabulary 3. Unit 11 In the Town pp. 70-75)

Idioms

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