Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
Who lives near you? Your neighbors can be some very interesting people. The people who live on the same street often have many different jobs and backgrounds. You might find an older person living next door to you who can tell you about history or a family from another country living on your block.
But not everyone likes to know their neighbors. Some people just like to be left alone. Listen to Jason and Amy talk about the people who live around them.
Dialog
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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Amy: I just moved into a new house recently, like six months ago, and we’re really starting to get to know our neighbors now that the weather is nice people are out and I really am into it. I love having neighbors and knowing my neighbors.
Jason: So they’re nice people?
Amy: Yeah, they’re super nice. We borrow things from them. We chat across our yards. It’s totally like in a movie.
Jason: It can be a slippery slope though, interacting with the neighbors. Sometimes I’ll start saying “hi” to a neighbor and then not too long later they’re talking my ear off every day, every time they see me. I’m trying to hide from them so I don’t get stuck talking for an hour.
Amy: But doesn’t it make you feel like you live in a friendly place and doesn’t it make you feel safer to know that your neighbors are there and they’re looking out for you?
Jason: Yeah and I get gardening tips from them.
Amy: Me too!
Jason: I don’t know, sometimes they just live life at a different speed than I do because they’re retired.
Amy: Right, right. Well, I’m worried that we might be those annoying neighbors who you don’t want to talk to.
Jason: Oh, whoa…
Amy: Not because I think I talk too much to my neighbors, but because we actually are constantly borrowing things because we’re younger than our neighbors and so we don’t have any of the household things that they have. Like, they have every gardening tool that you could ever need, so we’re constantly asking to borrow something.
Jason: That’s handy, but yeah, if you find yourself telling stories about your dog, you might be that obnoxious neighbor, you never know.
Amy: Oh, but the dog is so cute.
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Discussion
Amy moved into a new house a few months ago and has been getting to know her neighbors. She says they’re very nice people and she talks to them often.
Jason says that sometimes if you start talking to your neighbors, they will begin to annoy you by talking to you too much. But Amy thinks that’s OK. It’s worth it to have a good community around you.
In fact, Amy is more worried about annoying her neighbors than being annoyed by them. She often asks to borrow things from them like gardening tools.
Do you know your neighbors? Who is the most interesting person in your neighborhood?
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Yep, i know my neighbors, the one who lives on the side of my house used to give me a ride to the university, hahahAs furuta said, here in Brazil we know everyone around us, they are niice and friendly, hehe ( of course, some of them don’t like each other, but what can we do ? xD) |
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yes, I know my neighbors,and I always meet them. The relationship a among us is some how strong. Because of we are Muslims, we always cooperate each other. That’s right their is a little bit people who piss me off, so I try to a void them. |
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