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ISSN 1668-4877 - June 1, 2004 |
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LISTENING
COMPREHENSION
ACTIVITY
Discussion:
Town or Country?
(a
must for intermediate
or advanced
ESL students
and teachers)
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TOWN OR COUNTRY? Luis and Ana are discussing the advantages and
disadvantages of living in the town or in the country. Click below on each
picture to listen to their interesting points of view.
¿EN LA CIUDAD O EN LAS AFUERAS? Luis y Ana están discutiendo las ventajas
y desventajas de vivir en la ciudad o en las afueras. Pulsa abajo en cada
imagen para escuchar sus interesantes puntos de vista. |
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I think living in the
country is far
better than living in a city because you have the opportunity to escape
from all the noise and the general day-to-day routine of... of living in a
city... living and working in a city. In the country you can escape, you
can breathe fresh air. I don't know... I think it's much... much better to
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However, I prefer living in
the city because I like that feeling of not being
isolated
from the rest of the world... having all modern conveniences at just one -
like -
at hand.
You can get it at any moment of your... during your day,
on the weekends,
um, at any time of the day you can go shopping, you can find anything
open. If you feel like doing something last minute, you can always jump
into public transportation and get yourself a film or watch a play or get
a drink without taking the car anywhere. |
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But I think the advantage of
the country is you can do all that when you want to but you can still
escape after doing that. In the city, there's no escape. You are always
surrounded by... by people, by noise. |
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Well, it just depends on
your point of view. I prefer being with all the noise and the people
because I feel safer. Um, if you live out in the country, you are much
more isolated and you have that feeling walking down the street that
somebody's probably after you. Or you don't feel as if you're, um, maybe
you can find in the city more danger, but if you don't have people around
you then you have that feeling of not feeling safe. |
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I suppose it depends on what
you consider living in the country
as the whole.
Living in the country doesn't have to be being completely isolated. Living
in the country can be living in a small village or a very small town where
you have all the amenities but, at the same time, you don't have the
hustle and bustle of
living in the city. |
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But then you have to waste
more time commuting because you spend more time getting in and out to a
city where you have most of your modern conveniences. Um, like I said
before, anything dealing with entertainment or even just buying bread, you
have to get your car to buy a
loaf of
bread if you forgot to buy your bread on Friday afternoon. |
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Buy maybe the fact that
you're out in the open air will encourage you more to... to do more
physical exercise. Maybe you, instead of getting in your car to go and buy
the bread, you'd
actually walk or take a bicycle, while living in a city taking a
bicycle maybe isn't the safest thing to do. |
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GLOSSARY
far: (in this context) much (mucho); isolated:
separated physically or socially from others (aislado/a);
like: word used to fill a pause (muletilla para llenar una
pausa); at hand: available, at your disposal (a mano,
accesible); on the weekend (US English) - at the
weekend (UK English); as a whole: considered
altogether, in general (en general, considerando todo); hustle
and bustle: agitation, commotion (barullo, agitación);
loaf: plural: loaves - whole unit (of bread)
(pan/panes); actually: (emphatic) in fact (en
realidad).
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June 15, 2004.
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