Topic 1: Where you live
Tell me about your hometown/street/apartment.
What do you like about your hometown/street/house/apartment?
Tell me the good things about your house.
Is there anything you don’t like about it?
Would you like to move to another city/street/house/apartment?
What would you change about your city?
Would you recommend your area/street as a good place to live?
Nouns
Winding street suburb architecture
The locals (= people) local cuisine shopping Residential area
estate neighbourhood Apartment complex capital
Ø Adjectives
Sprawling regionally important commercial Unique
distinctive built-up Industrial provincial
Ø Idioms
run down (= in bad condition) some areas are run-down
up-market/ chic (= fashionable) some neighbourhoods are very up-market/ chic
Topic 2a: What you do—your job
Tell me about your job./ What job do you do?
Why did you choose this job?
What do you like about your job?
How long have you been doing this job? Is there anything you don’t like?
Nouns
profession line of business occupation line of work
Ø Verbs
be involved in share responsibility for work within a team
Ø Adjectives
hectic exhausting taxing intricate undemanding
Ø Idioms
work flat out (= work very hard) Sometimes I have to work flat out. on the go (= very busy) I'm always on the go.
get to the bottom of(= solve) I have to get to the bottom of problems related to...
pull out all the stops(=make a ...
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