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Learn English Vocabulary - How To Talk About City and Town ✔
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Apr 9, 2025
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hello this is Leanne with learn English
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with be Global and today we're going to
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be learning about City and town
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vocabulary and how to ask for
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directions so let's go ahead and jump
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in so as I mentioned before we will be
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looking into
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City and town vocabulary and how to ask
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for
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directions first of all I would like to
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go over the difference between City and
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town the words City and town describe
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pretty much the same
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thing a city could be a capital city
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Tokyo for example is the capital city of
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Japan cities are usually bigger than
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towns you wouldn't call Tokyo a town
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it's definitely a
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city let's start off by talking about
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getting around in the
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city one great reason to learn English
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is that all around the world everyone is
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learning English and using English to
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navigate in foreign
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cities so if you know a little bit of
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English chances are you'll be able to
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communicate with the tourist
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office the tourist office is the place
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where you can go to get information
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as someone visiting a city you are a
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tourist what that means is that you are
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exploring the city as someone would who
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isn't from there you would want to see
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maybe some historical
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landmarks or other points of interest in
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the
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city and in order to see these sites
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it's a very good idea to go to the
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tourist office and ask for a
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map here you can see an example of a map
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this map is of the New York City
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subway as you can see it is pretty
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complex but it shows you an example of a
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map let's go over some important
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vocabulary some words that you
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definitely want to know in order to be
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able to navigate or get around or Find
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Your Way in a new city are listed
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below these words are Street and
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Road the definition of a street as you
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can see here is that a street is a strip
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of land smoothed or otherwise prepared
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to allow easier travel along its
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length a road is almost the same thing
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as a street but it is often bigger than
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a
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street a dirt road is a road that is
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smoothed but not not covered with any
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material other than dirt or
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Earth a paved road is a road that is
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smoothed and then covered with a
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material such as
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asphalt here are some examples of
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different types of
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Roads there is the dirt road that we
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talked about out before as you can see
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the dirt road doesn't have any kind of
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material on it except for
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dirt the paved road on the right hand
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side actually has asphalt covering it
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asphalt is the gray material you see
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that the road is made out
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of another important vocabulary word is
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the stop light or traffic
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light stop lights are extremely
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important as a
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pedestrian or someone who is
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walking you also have to pay attention
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to the
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stoplight as you probably already know
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if the stoplight is red that means you
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must stop if the stoplight is green that
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means you can
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go the reason why this vocabulary is so
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important for the current lesson is that
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people will often give you directions
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based off of
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stoplights they might say go three
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blocks to the left then take a right at
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the next
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stoplight so it's important for you to
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know what these words
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mean let's look at the definition for
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stoplight and
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pedestrian so here we can see some of
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the important vocabulary
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defined the stoplight is the light that
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tells you when to stop or
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go and the other word I mentioned was
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pedestrian the definition for pedestrian
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is someone who is traveling by
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foot let's go over some more important
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vocabulary one vocabulary term that is
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very common is the word
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block here I've outlined and r
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a
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block the definition of block is the
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area defined by four
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streets another definition could be the
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area contained by four
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streets for example if you
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were right
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here and someone told you to walk one
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block to to the
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South assuming that this way is
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south you would go from here to
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there that would be considered to be one
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block let's go over more
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vocabulary and after that we'll practice
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following
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directions the next word I would like to
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roduce you to is
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intersection the definition of
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intersection is where two or more
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streets
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overlap or meet or
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intersect you can see on the map here
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I've drawn a circle around an
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intersection this point here is an
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intersection because that is where two
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or more streets overlook
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lap this is very important because if
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someone is giving you directions they
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might say go to the
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intersection of Federal Boulevard and
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West 28th
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Avenue now it's a bit hard to see in
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this picture of a map that I have here
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but this right here is Federal
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Boulevard this right here is what West
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28th
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Avenue so if someone said go to the
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intersection of Federal Boulevard and
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West 28th
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Avenue where would you
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go that's right you would go right here
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this is the
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intersection let's go over our
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directions really quickly here you are
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probably all already familiar with these
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terms to some extent but let's just go
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over them quickly to make sure that
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we're all on the same
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page if someone tells you to turn left
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you're going to be going this
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direction on the other hand if someone
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tells you to turn right you're going to
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be
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going this
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direction when you turn it means to
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change
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directions okay let's say that you are
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on East 8th Avenue and lafette Street
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and you have decided that you want to go
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see the Denver Botanic
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Gardens so we're going to figure out how
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to get to the Denver Botanic Garden
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Gardens you have a map and you can look
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at the map but you've also asked a
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friendly person who you met on the
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street how to get to the Denver Botanic
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Gardens what they said to do was to
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go 11 blocks to the
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East and almost an entire Block
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North and then you'll be there
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so they said the easiest way is to walk
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11 blocks to the right and then take a
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left and walk about another
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block let's see what this looks like on
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the
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map so I know I promised that we would
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look at a
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map first really quickly I would like to
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go over some very important vocabulary
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that will help us learn how to use the
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map even
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better some important map
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vocabulary includes the word key the
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definition for key is that the key
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defines the symbols used on a
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map when we decided that we wanted to go
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to the botanic Gard Garden we knew that
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we would need to find the Denver Botanic
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Garden on the
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key another important word is Highway
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the definition for highway is a large
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busy road that often connects
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cities a highway is different from a
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road because it's usually much busier
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than a road and people often use
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highways as
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landmarks landmarks are things that
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pretty much everyone in the city knows
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and they're usually big and easy to
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see it's easy to find
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them another important vocabulary word
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is the word
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sites the definition for sites is things
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to look at in a city
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in a minute here when we look at the map
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we're going to see many examples of
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sites to see in the
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city so here is the key remember the key
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tells us what all of the symbols on the
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map mean in this case the symbols are
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actually
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letters so let's find the Denver Botanic
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Gardens do you see
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it oh yeah it's right here the key tells
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us that the Denver Botanic Gardens is
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going to be found with the letter
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Z and there it is on the
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map so right now you are on East Avenue
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and Lafayette Street you are at the
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intersection of East Avenue and LA
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Street which is right
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here and you want to get to Z the Denver
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Botanic
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Gardens right over
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here here are the
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directions you are facing
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north from Lafayette go right on East
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8th Avenue for 11
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blocks okay so we're facing North this
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direction turn right okay we're going to
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go this way for 11 blocks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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8 9 10 11 blocks and
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then turn left and walk almost a full
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block and you will be
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there okay we're going remember we're
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going this direction so left is going to
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be that way we walk almost a full block
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and here we are at
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Z now at this point you're probably
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wondering how do I get a stranger to
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give me directions in
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English I'm going to give you some
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polite phrases that that you can use to
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get someone's attention and ask for
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directions stay
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tuned so now that we understand all this
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map vocabulary let's think about how we
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would approach an actual Stranger in a
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Strange City in English to get their
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attention and ask for their
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help one thing that's important to
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remember is to be friendly smile say
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hello this is going to help the stranger
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trust you and view you as a friendly
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tourist so here I've listed out a couple
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really good ways well more than a couple
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quite a few good ways to get someone's
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attention if you need help with
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directions
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so of course you can
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say hello like that uh if you make the
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the end of your voice go up a bit
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sometimes that will help get the
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person's
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attention you can also say excuse
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me or good
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afternoon good
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morning good
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evening depending on the time of day of
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course you wouldn't want to say good
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evening in the morning because that just
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wouldn't make sense uh you would want to
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say good evening at
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night you could also say excuse me do
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you have a
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minute you could say excuse me can you
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help me or hello I think I'm a bit lost
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can you help me
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these are all great ways to get
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someone's attention in a very polite
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way you can then say something that will
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indicate that you need
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help some suggestions I have are you
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could say may
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I for example say may I ask how do you
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get to Hamilton point cool from
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here you could also say could you please
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help me
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find as an example you could say could
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you please help me find the oldest tree
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in the
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city another way to ask for help could
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be I would like to go to the art museum
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can you help
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me it's always good to be polite and say
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please other useful words are how where
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and
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which an example of how you could use
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how is how can I get to Time
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Square you could use where where is the
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closest
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restaurant or you could use which which
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bus should I take to go downtown
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all of these examples are
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polite especially if you say thank you
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after the person helps
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you here are some great ways to say
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thank you when someone has helped
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you you could say simply thank you or
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you could say thank you so much for your
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help a big smile can help here you could
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also say I really appreciate the fact
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that you took the time to help
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me that lets the stranger know that it
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meant a lot to you to have their
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help another phrase is I'm very grateful
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for your
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help you could also say thanks you are
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so
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kind now I'd like to go over a couple
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types of city transportation
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a lot of the time when you're in a new
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city you will be probably going by foot
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or walking around the city as a
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pedestrian however there will be times
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certainly when it makes more sense to
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use a mode of
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transportation other than just
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walking one very common type of city
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transportation
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is the
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bus here you can see a picture of a bus
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in I believe New York
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City and for bus
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fairs you often do have to have the
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correct amount of change so do be
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careful to have cash if you decide to
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ride a bus in most
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cities this is an examp example of a
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street car the difference between a
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street car and a bus as you can see is
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that the street car actually runs on
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tracks these metal things right here are
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the
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tracks and a street car
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has a wire up
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here where it gets its electricity from
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so when you're walking around in a city
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you want to be careful not to spend too
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much time stopped on the street car
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tracks however street cars are a great
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way to get around in the
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city another option is to use the
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subway the subway is usually mostly
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underground hence its name sub
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and it looks like a big train and it's
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normally very
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fast earlier in the lesson we looked at
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a subway map for New York
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City in the subway it can often be very
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confusing as to which subway to take so
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when you're in the subway trying to
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decide which line to
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take you can can use the vocabulary that
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we went over to ask a stranger for
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help this is a
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taxi the way to catch a taxi is very
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different in different cities however
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most of the time if you yell taxi and
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wave your arm around you can probably
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get a taxi to stop for
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you taxis usually have a meter so so
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it's usually best to make sure that the
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meter is on and at zero when you first
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get into the
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taxi this is an example of a
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shuttle this in fact is an airport
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shuttle which can be extremely
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convenient if you're staying at a hotel
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in the
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city often times the hotel will have an
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air airport shuttle it's a good idea to
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ask at the front desk if they have an
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airport shuttle because it's usually a
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free ride to the airport from your hotel
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and actually from the airport to your
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hotel so you can go to and from the
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airport using the airport
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shuttle thank you for watching if you
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