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 NiaRhy on Sun, 25/08/2024 - 13:47

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Hi, I love in Bogor, West Java Indonesia. Bogor was beautiful city, but now Its very crowded and traffic everywhere. There's a roundabout in the center of city, it's called Tugu kujang, which is icon of Bogor. Well many people use the pavement for cadger. So Walker can't walk on it. It makes me annoying when I want to walk for my exercise. There's also a crossroads near my house. I don't know why when there are some police, it has long traffic. I like the signpost. We can find it easy. So don't worry to be lost heheh. 

Submitted by jpalacios on Wed, 24/07/2024 - 18:49

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Great platform, love learning new vocabulary.

Submitted by jaywood's_path… on Sat, 22/06/2024 - 21:01

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the closest roundabout to my house is called Texas Roundabout because it's near a cafe called 'Texas Cafe', we're used to name everything here even the unnamed things hahaha, back to our subject and as I saw some people here complaining about narrow roads or the noise near their houses I'm going to complain about a strange thing which is the street lights, yes it may sound weird but let me explain, our street lamps have a very dim light to the degree that you can't see the face of someone that is only 15 meters away; the surprise is that when we complained about it to the people in charge we've been told that this is done on purpose to minimize the consumption of energy. weird isn't it?

 

Submitted by Mohamed.Slil on Fri, 14/06/2024 - 15:33

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Near home I can see roundabouts on roads, there are many roundabouts here, in the last years my country planed to replace traffic lights with roundabouts because our roads are quite old and narrow, the roads here are unable to accommodate the large number of vehicles so that's why they did this change.

Here where I live there are few sign posts on roads, and there are enough crossings in the roadcrossings.

Submitted by kamalham on Sat, 08/06/2024 - 10:47

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Thank you so much, it's help me to improve my vocabulary. 

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Submitted by Houy99 on Sun, 02/06/2024 - 03:51

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I am poor vocabulary this lesson is good for me to improve word

Submitted by Treasure on Thu, 09/05/2024 - 13:05

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I live in the city named Mandalay which is third largest city in our country.There are many traffic lights which help not to have traffic jams and crossings which make people on foot convient to cross the street. Street lights also lighten the roads at night .Signposts around the corner of the street sign tourists not to get lost.Howeever,there are not much roundabouts in the city ,only two or three. In my city, there are pavements for pedestrians and kids cycling bicycle or riding skates which is esp. at the moat. I have never seen squre in my city though.