Question Type 1: Basic Description Questions

Topic 1: Where you live

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  Tell me about your hometown / street / apartment.
  
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  What do you like about your hometown / street / house / apartment?
  
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  Tell me the good things about your house.
  
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  Is there anything you don’t like about it?
  
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  Would you like to move to another city / street / house/ apartment?
  
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  What would you change about your city?
  
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  Would you recommend your area / street as a good place to live?
  

Nouns

winding street suburb architecture back alley

the locals (= people) local cuisine shopping district

residential area estate neighborhood municipality

apartment complex capital

Adjectives

sprawling regionally important commercial powerful

unique distinctive built-up affluent

industrial provincial

Idioms

run-down (= in bad condition)

Some areas are run-down.

up-market / chic (= fashionable)

Some neighborhoods are becoming very up-market / chic.