WEBVTT 00:00:08.070 --> 00:00:11.769 Hello and welcome to another edition of ESL Podcast, 00:00:12.269 --> 00:00:15.630 the podcast designed especially for those who 00:00:15.630 --> 00:00:17.850 are speakers of English as a second language. 00:00:18.129 --> 00:00:22.149 I'm your host, Jeff McQuillan. This podcast is 00:00:22.149 --> 00:00:25.370 brought to you by the Center for Educational 00:00:25.370 --> 00:00:34.600 Development and www. Today on our podcast, we're 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:37.960 going to be interviewing Lucy, who's going to 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:41.640 tell us about where she likes to live, what she 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:45.460 likes about the places where she lives, and some 00:00:45.460 --> 00:00:48.039 things that she doesn't like about where she 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:57.829 lives. Let's listen in. If you asked me which 00:00:57.829 --> 00:01:01.950 I like better, the suburbs or the city, I would 00:01:01.950 --> 00:01:05.390 definitely say the city. I'm a little biased, 00:01:05.549 --> 00:01:10.370 though. I have only lived in a city, in a medium 00:01:10.370 --> 00:01:14.430 -sized city and in large cities. I was born in 00:01:14.430 --> 00:01:17.829 a very large city. Then I grew up in another 00:01:17.829 --> 00:01:22.590 city, and now I live in... what some people think 00:01:22.590 --> 00:01:26.870 may be a very exciting city perhaps the best 00:01:26.870 --> 00:01:30.890 city in the world and that's los angeles i like 00:01:30.890 --> 00:01:34.909 living in l .a because there is always something 00:01:34.909 --> 00:01:39.650 to do if you wake up in the morning and you want 00:01:39.650 --> 00:01:43.349 to try something new you can always find something 00:01:43.349 --> 00:01:48.010 to do that you've never done before maybe that's 00:01:48.010 --> 00:01:53.409 going to a concert or trying a new type of food, 00:01:53.569 --> 00:01:58.310 or just going to a different part of the city. 00:01:58.950 --> 00:02:02.569 Even if you've lived in Los Angeles for 10 years, 00:02:02.829 --> 00:02:07.250 because there's always people, new people, moving 00:02:07.250 --> 00:02:10.530 into the city, the city is constantly changing, 00:02:10.750 --> 00:02:15.949 and there is always something new. It's a place 00:02:15.949 --> 00:02:18.949 where you can meet people from different countries. 00:02:19.710 --> 00:02:22.930 who speak different languages, with many different 00:02:22.930 --> 00:02:27.150 kinds of beliefs, and people who do different 00:02:27.150 --> 00:02:32.050 kinds of jobs. Some people say that you can find 00:02:32.050 --> 00:02:36.009 anything you want in Los Angeles. I think that 00:02:36.009 --> 00:02:38.610 in the world that there are a few other cities 00:02:38.610 --> 00:02:44.810 like this. Maybe New York City, Paris, Beijing, 00:02:45.229 --> 00:02:51.360 who knows? But I think that Los Angeles is the 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:58.599 best city to live in. I love eating. I love being 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:04.840 able to try new kinds of foods and being able 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:08.400 to eat things that I've never thought about eating 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:12.740 before. I also like living in Los Angeles because 00:03:12.740 --> 00:03:19.819 it's close to the ocean. close enough to the 00:03:19.819 --> 00:03:25.979 ocean that on the weekends I can get up, drive 00:03:25.979 --> 00:03:32.639 a little ways, and walk next to the beach and 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:37.139 feel the ocean breezes and watch people surf. 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:41.819 It's a lot of fun. I like watching the water, 00:03:42.060 --> 00:03:47.500 seeing the waves, watching people surf. I also 00:03:47.500 --> 00:03:50.500 like Los Angeles because of the warm weather. 00:03:51.180 --> 00:03:55.840 I have always lived in warm weather. Well, almost 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:59.520 always. For a short time, I lived in Washington, 00:03:59.699 --> 00:04:03.340 D .C., where the weather is very cold in the 00:04:03.340 --> 00:04:06.580 wintertime. Some people who lived in very, very 00:04:06.580 --> 00:04:09.699 cold weather think that Washington, D .C. isn't 00:04:09.699 --> 00:04:13.780 that cold. But for somebody who grew up in Arizona, 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:18.399 it is very, very cold. So I like Los Angeles 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:23.379 because the weather is nice, it doesn't rain 00:04:23.379 --> 00:04:27.600 very much, and even in the wintertime, you don't 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:31.459 have to wear heavy jackets. There are, of course, 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:35.980 disadvantages to living in a large city. In big 00:04:35.980 --> 00:04:40.680 cities, there are so many people that the roads 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:47.050 or the streets are often congested. In Los Angeles, 00:04:47.350 --> 00:04:51.670 it's usually the freeways. It's difficult to 00:04:51.670 --> 00:04:55.970 get from one place to another without driving 00:04:55.970 --> 00:05:00.029 on the freeway. But if you drive on the freeway, 00:05:00.050 --> 00:05:03.629 you will very likely get into a traffic jam, 00:05:03.870 --> 00:05:08.089 especially at rush hour. So if you live in Los 00:05:08.089 --> 00:05:14.089 Angeles, get ready to wait in traffic every day. 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:24.100 I want to thank Lucy for talking to us today 00:05:24.100 --> 00:05:28.180 about where she's lived. As you heard, she's 00:05:28.180 --> 00:05:31.100 lived in different places here in the United 00:05:31.100 --> 00:05:35.579 States, in Los Angeles, in Arizona, in Washington, 00:05:35.740 --> 00:05:40.339 D .C., so several different cities. There were 00:05:40.339 --> 00:05:43.779 a few words of vocabulary that you might have 00:05:43.779 --> 00:05:45.939 had difficulty, that might have tripped you up, 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:49.899 which is to say made you or gave you some difficulties. 00:05:50.750 --> 00:05:55.709 One was a traffic jam. A traffic jam is when 00:05:55.709 --> 00:05:58.069 there are too many cars on the road and everyone 00:05:58.069 --> 00:06:02.389 has to go slowly, either for an accident or just 00:06:02.389 --> 00:06:05.329 because of what we call congestion. Congestion 00:06:05.329 --> 00:06:10.589 in traffic is too many cars on the road. Rush 00:06:10.589 --> 00:06:14.189 hour is another term that Lucy used in describing 00:06:14.189 --> 00:06:18.730 the traffic in Los Angeles. Rush hour. is that 00:06:18.730 --> 00:06:21.790 time during the morning and the afternoon when 00:06:21.790 --> 00:06:24.629 most people are going back and forth to work. 00:06:25.149 --> 00:06:28.490 People who commute, that is to say, who go from 00:06:28.490 --> 00:06:30.949 one part of the city to another part of the city 00:06:30.949 --> 00:06:35.110 usually have to go during the morning rush hour 00:06:35.110 --> 00:06:38.990 or the afternoon rush hour. Those were, I think, 00:06:39.009 --> 00:06:41.389 the only two terms that you might have had some 00:06:41.389 --> 00:06:44.899 difficulty with. That's going to wrap it up for 00:06:44.899 --> 00:06:47.600 today's ESL podcast. Remember, you can visit 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:55.300 us on our website at www .eslpod .com. That's 00:06:55.300 --> 00:07:02.079 www .eslpod .com. I want to thank you for listening 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:05.019 and invite you to tune in to our next podcast 00:07:05.019 --> 00:07:10.399 on English as a Second Language podcast. Thanks 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:18.060 again for listening.