Around town

What's the difference between a 'crossing' and a 'crossroads'? Do these exercises to help learn words for the things around your town and find out.

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Submitted by Alexis GG on Thu, 21/05/2020 - 18:56

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My building is very close to a crossroads in city, as my neighbourd's building is right on the corner street. On each four pavement streets of this crossroads there is a traffic lights and also crossings on roads for each traffic lights. There are also as the same place some signposts with different colors on the background: in green are mentionned others cities direction to follow, and in white nearest places in the city. All long of each street there are street lights brighting the town at night.

Submitted by Hellman on Thu, 21/05/2020 - 09:58

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close my home, there is a crossroad where there is not a traffic light so that point on the street is so dangerous for people.

Submitted by Tomofumi on Sun, 17/05/2020 - 08:51

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In my city, there are no roundabouts. Actually, I have never seen them in my country. So I defenitely will be confused how to drive if I go into them.

Submitted by Janiere on Sat, 09/05/2020 - 06:03

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I can see near my house several things related of traffic. Three blocks from my house, there is a traffic lights on the crossroads. Around my house there are many roads, corners and street lights. In an avenue close my house, there are various signposts. I don't remember where is the crossing closest. There is a square behind my house too.
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Submitted by dinhhang on Fri, 08/05/2020 - 07:24

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I live at Quezon city in the Philippines. when I go out, I can see a lot of traffic lights at crossroads. during the day, it is really hard to travel because you can get traffic all the time. It is better to go by metro. Sometimes, I can see they plan the beautiful flower at roundabout, it make city look nice. I like to take a walk and the drivers are so polite to stop in front of crossing so I can cross easily.

Submitted by shahem on Thu, 23/04/2020 - 10:17

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Actually, all of the things mentioned above are exist in my town. Inside the town there are more roundabouts than crossroads, thus facilitate the traffic.
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Submitted by Rafaela1 on Tue, 21/04/2020 - 13:01

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I can see traffic lights and crossing neat the station.

Submitted by draigmon on Tue, 21/04/2020 - 05:37

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Pavement is really necessary for road in the city center. It's safe for people. Street without pavement should be encourage in the rural or high way to save budget, I think.

Submitted by Youssef kandel on Mon, 20/04/2020 - 03:38

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In my city, there are roundabouts and crossroads, there is not a pavement to walk above in some areas.

Submitted by Alissa on Sat, 18/04/2020 - 22:16

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In the city where i live and no far of my home there is a crossroad but without signspost. In fact, there is three roads, one of them take to the town square. In my city street lights work as soon as the sunset and the traffic jump is essentially in the rush hour; about 7 am in the morning and about 5pm in the evening . In the street corner there is a bus stop where poeple can wait on the pavement and just in front of the bus stop there is a crossing where poeple can cross to the ather side of the road. In the end of the street there is a big roundabout,