Verbs with "ing"

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• stuck
• look out for
• retired
• annoying

• neighbor
• next door
• block
• left alone

• obnoxious
• slippery slope

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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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Amy

Jason

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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