Hello and welcome to another edition of ESL Podcast,
the podcast designed especially for those who
are speakers of English as a second language.
I'm your host, Jeff McQuillan. This podcast is
brought to you by the Center for Educational
Development and www. Today on our podcast, we're
going to be interviewing Lucy, who's going to
tell us about where she likes to live, what she
likes about the places where she lives, and some
things that she doesn't like about where she
lives. Let's listen in. If you asked me which
I like better, the suburbs or the city, I would
definitely say the city. I'm a little biased,
though. I have only lived in a city, in a medium
-sized city and in large cities. I was born in
a very large city. Then I grew up in another
city, and now I live in... what some people think
may be a very exciting city perhaps the best
city in the world and that's los angeles i like
living in l .a because there is always something
to do if you wake up in the morning and you want
to try something new you can always find something
to do that you've never done before maybe that's
going to a concert or trying a new type of food,
or just going to a different part of the city.
Even if you've lived in Los Angeles for 10 years,
because there's always people, new people, moving
into the city, the city is constantly changing,
and there is always something new. It's a place
where you can meet people from different countries.
who speak different languages, with many different
kinds of beliefs, and people who do different
kinds of jobs. Some people say that you can find
anything you want in Los Angeles. I think that
in the world that there are a few other cities
like this. Maybe New York City, Paris, Beijing,
who knows? But I think that Los Angeles is the
best city to live in. I love eating. I love being
able to try new kinds of foods and being able
to eat things that I've never thought about eating
before. I also like living in Los Angeles because
it's close to the ocean. close enough to the
ocean that on the weekends I can get up, drive
a little ways, and walk next to the beach and
feel the ocean breezes and watch people surf.
It's a lot of fun. I like watching the water,
seeing the waves, watching people surf. I also
like Los Angeles because of the warm weather.
I have always lived in warm weather. Well, almost
always. For a short time, I lived in Washington,
D .C., where the weather is very cold in the
wintertime. Some people who lived in very, very
cold weather think that Washington, D .C. isn't
that cold. But for somebody who grew up in Arizona,
it is very, very cold. So I like Los Angeles
because the weather is nice, it doesn't rain
very much, and even in the wintertime, you don't
have to wear heavy jackets. There are, of course,
disadvantages to living in a large city. In big
cities, there are so many people that the roads
or the streets are often congested. In Los Angeles,
it's usually the freeways. It's difficult to
get from one place to another without driving
on the freeway. But if you drive on the freeway,
you will very likely get into a traffic jam,
especially at rush hour. So if you live in Los
Angeles, get ready to wait in traffic every day.
I want to thank Lucy for talking to us today
about where she's lived. As you heard, she's
lived in different places here in the United
States, in Los Angeles, in Arizona, in Washington,
D .C., so several different cities. There were
a few words of vocabulary that you might have
had difficulty, that might have tripped you up,
which is to say made you or gave you some difficulties.
One was a traffic jam. A traffic jam is when
there are too many cars on the road and everyone
has to go slowly, either for an accident or just
because of what we call congestion. Congestion
in traffic is too many cars on the road. Rush
hour is another term that Lucy used in describing
the traffic in Los Angeles. Rush hour. is that
time during the morning and the afternoon when
most people are going back and forth to work.
People who commute, that is to say, who go from
one part of the city to another part of the city
usually have to go during the morning rush hour
or the afternoon rush hour. Those were, I think,
the only two terms that you might have had some
difficulty with. That's going to wrap it up for
today's ESL podcast. Remember, you can visit
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