This first question is:

Where is your hometown ?

Well, my hometown is a little village in the middle of EngLand, in that they call the Midlands.

The next question is: Do you like the hometown ? Yes, I find it really calming and relaxing, especially when I’m comeback to the village from the city where I live. Life is so much calmer there. I would say that only a thounsand people live in my hometown and they all live in nice house with beautiful gardens and flowers, so it’s the total opposite of where I live in a flat in my city.

The next question is: Do you often visit your hometown ?

I usually visit my hometown at the weekends when i have time, so that might maybe 10 times a year. Sometimes I spend a week there in my summer holidays because it’s just a nice place to stay. I normally stay with ny family at one of their houses so I don’t stay there for a long time.

The next question is: What is the oldest place in your hometown ?

I would say that the oldest place, the oldest building, is the church, which is in the centre. There aren’t many shops in my hometown but the ones that we have are next to the church, so they are in the village centre as well. There is a butcher’s, there is a bakery, a bank and one small supermarket. Even though there aren’t a lot of shop, you can always find what you need and if you need anything else, you can go to a nearby city and that only takes 30 minutes.

The following question is: How could your hometown be improved ?

Well, the roads aren’t very good in my hometown and it seems like this is problem all over England.

So when i take my bike to my hometown to go cycling, sometimes i can’t because the roads are so bad.

Have your hometown changed much since you were a child ?

I would say that the main things that have changed about my hometown are the people that live there. Nowadays, there are a lot of younger people who have decided to leave the city and to move to the countryside to this small village. So it’s nice to see that the village will have a future and maybe one day i will go back there and live there as well.

The next question is: Is there good public **transportation in your hometown ? **

The transportation in my hometown isn’t the best. There isn’t a train link but there are quite a lot of buses that go by, so if you haven’t got a car you would go by bus to different places. As I said before, there aren’t a lot of shops in my hometown, so I would say that almost all of the people that live in the village have a car because you need it to travel to work to nearby city, where most people work.

And the final question is: Do you think your hometown is a good place to bring up children ??

Yes, I think that is the perfect place to bring up children because almost all of the house have big gardens and children can have trampolines, swings or even climbing frames in their garden, and I think that makes a lot of children happy. The Internet connection is also good in the village as well, so that’s important because a lot of children love that.

Vocabulary:

• Calm (verb): calm somebody/something/yourself to make somebody/something become quiet and more relaxed, especially after strong emotion or excitement.

*Example: *

+Have some tea; it’ll calm your nerves.

• opposite (adjective): [only before noun] on the other side of a particular area from somebody/something and usually facing them.

Example:

It’s not easy having a relationship when you live at opposite ends of the country.

Answers are given on the oppsite page.

• flat(noun): (also apartment especially in North American English) a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a building

Example:

a two-bebroom flat

a new block of flats

+butcher (noun): a person whose job is cutting up and selling meat in a shop or killing animals for this purpose

+butcher’s: a shop that sells meat

Example:

He owns the butcher’s in the main street.

bakery (noun): a place where bread and cakes are made and/or sold

• Climbing frame (noun): a structure made of metal bars joined together for children to climb and play on.

• trampoline (noun): a piece of equipment that is used in gymnastics for doing jumps in the air. It consists of a sheet of strong material taht is attached by springs to a frame.

• consist: bao gồm

• train link: chuyến tàu

• almost

Example:

Almost no one (=hardly anyone) believed him.

i like almost all of them