Welcome to Zenith corporate school English.
In today's lesson what we're looking at one child speaking and we will learn how to greet the examiner
how to talk about your hometown and how to use a wide range of vocabulary for towns and cities.
So today's lesson will be strictly based on one side speaking and we will be looking at one topic and
that is.
Town and cities.
So let's get started with the speaking practice
Firstly let's look at greetings Examiner So 1 to examine it comes and asks you a question like could
I see your ID please.
How do you respond to the examiner.
There are a lot of ways to respond to the examiner but we are going to look at two different ways.
And these are sure.
Here it is.
Please take a look or Sure.
Here you are.
So when you say this sentence you present your ID to the examiner.
And if you have asked What is your full name you could say my full name is James Scott but you can call
me James.
Another way to say this is my full name is James Court.
You could just refer to me as James so you can memorize you can learn to use these ways of responding
to questions.
What is your full name and could I see your ID please and use them during the exam.
But be sure not to speak as though you memorize the answers.
Let it flow naturally from you.
So when given the answers please make sure you're not just cramming and say what you learned from the
lesson.
So try to understand the structure of the sentence.
So once again my full name is James Scott.
But you can call me James.
My full name is James Court.
You could just refer to me as James so you can choose either of them to use on the day of the exam so
let's get to the first question.
So after looking at your ID and giving you back the I.D. You could be asked a question like this where
is your hometown now.
Remember not to give one sentence answers or fast answers like my hometown is London.
And that's it.
That is not a great answer.
So let's look at a structure you can use here.
My hometown is in let's say Ottawa.
So my hometown is in Ottawa which is the capital of Canada.
It is located in the north of the country not really far from Alaska.
So you just answered not only where you leave but the location of the place.
So let's go again.
My hometown is in Ottawa which is the capital of it is located in the north of the country.
Not really that far from Alaska.
What if your hometown is not the capital.
Another way you can say this you can say My hometown is in let's say another city like Alaska or not
a smaller city so you can say My hometown is a small city in Ottawa which is the capital of Canada and
it is located on the north or on or in the south of the country.
Not really that far from somewhere so you can use the same structure for your hometown in case it's
another capital.
You don't have to mention capital.
You can say My hometown is in somewhere which is in another bigger city and it's located in the south
of the country.
OK so let's get to the second question.
Do you like living in the city so you can say yes I do.
There are numerous opportunities and places of interest in the city which you cannot get in the suburbs.
There are lots lot or there are lots of lively bars and restaurants within walking distance of my apartment.
I'm a bit of a culture vulture as well so it's great to have access to arts exhibitions and that kind
of thing.
These and more make living in the city.
Interesting for me in answering this question you didn't just say yes I like living in the city you
gave extra information.
Let's look at the structure.
Firstly we said yes I do.
There are numerous there are many opportunities so numerous is a higher vocabulary for Mami so numerous
opportunities and places of interest in the city which you cannot get in the suburb suburb it's like
outside the city.
There are lots of lively bars and restaurants and within walking distance of my apartment.
So you're trying to explain why living in this city is good so make sure you include two one or two
extra sentences after the first one.
So here we have about three sentences extra sentences two extra sentences to back up the first answer
that we gave.
Yes I do so we get to the next question.
Do you leave in a small town or big city we have a simple answer here.
Well I grew up in a small town but I've been living in a reasonably big city for about five years now.
It's big and beautiful or it's a big and beautiful city so do you live in a small town or a big city.
You can say well I live in the big city or I live in a small city.
Actually I lived in a bigger one in the past.
So this is an extra sentence you're given.
It's a big and beautiful city or it's a small but beautiful town lovely town OK.
Now this.
These are extra sentences you can use to back up your answer for such questions and the next question.
Is there much to do in your hometown.
Oh yes there's certainly lots to do that it's family.
It's a fairly big city if you like going out in the evening.
There are a lot of good restaurants and bars if you prefer cultural activities.
There are museums and art galleries.
But if you like nature there are lots of other things outside of the city which are easy to reach like
the gardens are called parks wildlife and so on.
So in answering this question you not only said yes but you try to explain where to go to for people
that like going out in the evening for people that like activities like going to museums and art galleries
for people that like nature you don't have to put it in the structure.
But the aim or the goal is that you give extra answers to your first answer.
Is there much to do in your hometown.
Not really.
There is not really much to my hometown.
But sometimes tourists to come to a city and they look at monuments or they look at statues or visit
the old museum which we have in the center of the town now.
You just gave two extra sentences to back up your first sentence showing that you understand or you
understood the question.
So next one.
What are people like in your hometown.
They are mostly quite friendly but ask most big cities.
As with most big cities everyone is often busy so it may seem as if they are not interested in speaking
or having a chat.
But if you live there you know that most people are quite happy to have a chat.
If they have time and will help you if needed what we tried to do here is to make it not look so negative
in questions like this.
What are people like in your hometown.
Don't try to paint a negative picture like oh they are bad.
In fact the like.
Beating people you know screaming at people or the weekend.
Yeah not so nice.
So don't try to paint a very negative picture about especially about your country or about the people
in your country.
Try to give a positive response.
So like this one they are mostly quite friendly but people may not see them like that.
But when you get close to them you understand that they are happy people and they chat if they have
time and help you if needed.
So in a way you're trying to say that they are different from how people see that so always try to give
a positive answer and not a negative answer about something.
OK let's look at another question.
Do you get many tourists visiting your area so you can say.
Not really.
No.
I live in the inner city and the area is a little rundown.
It's basically a lot of high rise flats and many of the shops are boarded up.
So nothing to interest tourists really but a few tourists will come around some times to see our monuments
and museums.
So here we used Lincoln which is which are words like.
That's a good question.
These are Lincoln words so we will talk about Lincoln in a separate video.
But for now we have some new words like inner city rundown high rise flats boarded up.
We will see that as the video goes on our show at the cap of cities and towns for you to see these cap
and what they mean.
So don't worry about it but in this answer you can see that we have a little bit of negative answer
like no not really.
So I live in the inner city and it's rundown.
Nothing of interest for tourists but I said.
But there are a few tourists so I try to paint a positive picture that some tourists to come to my city
to see monuments and museums soulful pop one the aim is that when you ask the question you answer straight
to what you said directly what you ask.
For example do you like sports.
And you say yes I do.
I spend three to four hours every day playing football which is actually my favorite sport.
Now you just gave an extra answer so try to give a list to the three sentences for your part one of
speaking do not just keep it up one sentence so try to extend to two or three sentences for your part
one speaking so let's look at the useful cap.
Here we have boarded up shops.
These are shops that no longer are no longer doing business.
So these shops are closed.
They are not doing business and they are not going to open for a long time maybe because of problems
or no money or something like that.
So they are closed that gets around is to move around the place sort of travel around the place.
If you get to a city or town is it easy to get around.
Is it difficult to get around because of the transportation there.
So that is what it means.
Get around high rise flats multi-storey apartments so apartments with like two floors three floors.
These are high rise flats in the suburbs.
I already said it it's outer area of a large town or city so outside the city places of interest are
places for visitors and terrorists lively bars and restaurants bars restaurants with good atmosphere
so happy people there people are energetic people are active.
That is a lively bar a restaurant residential area is and is a place or area where people leave.
So it's called a residential area for people upmarket shops expensive shops.
So you can say in my city there are a lot of upmarket shops which are quite expensive and usually for
the rich people.
We could go there too for Brown to browse or to look around so to browse is like to move around the
place not necessarily to buy anything just to look at the clothes and the shoes and try to understand
what they are and try to understand the price and maybe consider if you're going to buy any of them
and the last one.
Traffic congestion is a heavy traffic making it difficult to move around the city.
So when you have cars for example in the morning when it's a rush hour rush hour is like what everyone
is trying to get to work and you have traffic so you can move around the city.
Traffic congestion
OK.
Now it's your turn.
So you have one too.
You've got 45 minutes.
And let's take the first question.
You can answer it on your own positive video.
I will give you one minute for each question to for you to answer on your own.
So the first question where is your hometown
OK.
Excellent.
Is there much to do in your hometown.
All right and to like leaving the big city
great
what are the people like in your hometown
OK.
And remember in case and fast in case I'm fast you can always post the video and try to answer or go
back to look at the answers that I gave and use the same structure you can put your own words.
Not a problem but make sure you make a complete sentence and it should make sense too.
So don't just say anything but let it be connected to the question
So do you get many tourists visiting your area.
So do many tourists come to your city or your town.
That is the meaning of the question.
Great.
Now the knowledge you get from these questions can help you answer any other questions from towns and
cities.
So don't say like if you have a new question like this.
Are there many art galleries where you leave then just go blank like what am I going to say I never
practice these questions.
So you already have knowledge from what is it like in your city.
You live in a big or small city you can use your knowledge from these questions to answer these one
for example are there many art galleries where you leave.
Not that I know of.
I live in a small town.
So now you're talking about where you leave again.
So I live in a small town so I don't think there are any.
So we have a few museums and other cultural institutions.
So you're talking about your town.
So this is just like the same thing we did in your capital city in our capital city.
There are quite a few galleries however.
So you just use knowledge from where do you leave and what can you do in your town to answer these questions.
So are there many art galleries where you live or you can say yes to a lot of art galleries where I
live.
Actually I live in a big city.
I live in the capital of the city and a lot of tourists come around to see different art galleries like
the big art gallery we have in the center of the city.
You can call the name of the outcome it if you want.
It's OK to say wrong information that the examiner doesn't know exactly if this exists in the city.
So it's all right to say that.
So you can say there's a big art gallery and a lot of them.
So something like that.
So you just use knowledge from where do you leave and what can you do in your town to answer this question.
So your knowledge from other questions can help you answer any question from a topic.
Now in the subsequent videos we are going to talk about other topics for one we are going to have maybe
food maybe sports or adverts.
So we're going to look at how to talk about such topics maybe difficult more difficult topics for you
to see how to handle them how to answer them.
But I hope you are able or able to learn something with talking about towns and cities and you'll be
able to face any question that has to do with towns and cities.
Of course you need to practice more and look at look up other vocabulary that has to do with towns and
cities in addition to the one that we just learned in this video.
So enjoy your time and see you at the next lesson.