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Уровень Pre-elementary. Часть 9. Эпизод 15.
Did you notice how we call life in the city? 'City life'.
And life in the country? 'Country life'.
City life is more exciting but also quite 'stressful'.
We say something is stressful when it makes you nervous.
The traffic in the city is stressful.
'Traffic' is the word we use for cars, buses, trucks, everything on the roads.
When the traffic moves slowly or stops, we say there is a 'traffic jam'.
Parking in the city is also stressful.
It's often difficult to find a parking space to park your car.
Notice the verb is 'to park' and a place where you can leave your car is called 'a parking space'.
Usually in cities there are car parks.
A car park is a big area with lots of parking spaces for many cars.
Another problem in the city is the 'pollution'.
Pollution is the contamination of the environment, for example the traffic makes the air dirty.
In the country the air is clean and it's easy to park but Tom says it's 'boring' to live in the country because there's nothing to do.
'Boring' means that it's not interesting.
Marie says it's 'relaxing' to live in the country.
'Relaxing' means it makes you feel relaxed.
Notice that often the adjectives we use to describe things, places or people end with ING.
The city is exciting.
The country is relaxing but boring.
Adjectives that describe how a person feels often end with ED.
Tom is bored in the country.
Marie is relaxed in the country and stressed in the city.
Marie said that at city you rush around all day.
'Rush around' means to go everywhere and do everything very quickly.
But in the country you can go for walks in the woods and do the gardening.
A 'wood' is an area with lots of trees.
The 'gardening' is the work you do in your garden, like watering the plants or cutting the grass.
Well, see you!

 
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