MY HOME TOWN

I was born in London but my family moved to Liverpool when I was two, so that’s really my home town. It’s a large, industrial city on the north-west coast of England, with a population of over half a million people.

Liverpool is a lovely city but it’s quite dirty and polluted and there are a lot of poor areas. It has some beautiful parks, some modern shopping centres and two cathedrals. There isn’t a beach and in the summer people go to Blackpool for their holidays. There is a lot of nightlife especially on Fridays and Saturdays, with live music in a lot of pubs.

The weather here isn’t wonderful. The winter is quite long and it rains a lot. Sometimes we have good weather in the summer but not always.

Liverpool is famous for the Beatles.

Every year a lot of tourists come to visit the Beatles Museum and to see the nightclub where they first played. The city is also famous for its football teams. Every Saturday, thousands of people go to Anfield to see Liverpool FC and Goodison Park to see Everton.

But I think the best thing about Liverpool is the people. Liverpudlians have a very special sense of humor. Although a lot of people in Liverpool are unemployed, they are still very positive. They are friendlier than people in other parts of England.

Liverpool isn’t the most beautiful city in the world, but I love living here. I wouldn’t like to live anywhere else.

Слова и выражения:

be born – рождаться

move (v) – переезжать

coast (n,C) – побережье

population (n,U) – население

lovely (adj) – милый, симпатичный

dirty (adj) - грязный

polluted (adj) - загрязненный

area (n,C) - зона, территория

cathedral (n,C) - собор

beach (n,C) - пляж

nightlife (n,U) - ночная жизнь

weather (n,U) - погода

sense (n,C) - чувство

although (adv) - хотя

unemployed (adj) - безработный

II. Ответьте на следующие вопросы.

1. Where was the author born?

2. Where did his family move?

3. What is a population of Liverpool?

4. Is Liverpool polluted?

5. Where do people go for their holidays?

6. What is the weather like in Liverpool?

7. What is Liverpool famous for?

8. Why do thousands of people go to Anfield?

9. What special sense do Liverpudlians have?

10. Are they friendlier than people in other parts of England?

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