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 EMF_12 on Tue, 07/06/2022 - 04:39

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Along the crowded avenue I live nearby, you can find gas stations, markets, pavements, crossings, corners, street lights, bus stops, and some traffic lights two blocks away from my house. Also, in strange cases, you can find traffic at the crossroads near the market (from which my house is three and a half blocks apart) on Sunday evening.

Submitted by Sveta82 on Mon, 06/06/2022 - 14:02

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I live in the beautiful part of Wroclaw city and I can see near my house two crossing, not busy road, in 2 minutes of drive there is one roundabout and everywhere there are traffic lights.Also we have street lights everywhere

Submitted by nadyanightingale on Wed, 20/04/2022 - 09:05

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I remember of crossroads, traffic lights, signposts, street lights, corners, pavements and crossings.

Submitted by emohammid on Sat, 02/04/2022 - 03:43

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in my village there are street lights on the roads, but they are ot working. no traffic lights or crossing exist here, you drive as you wish, roads are full of holes, you need here an American car, cars like kia .... if fall in a hole will not escape . the problem with these cars is tht they need lots of fuel, and the govenment eliminate all supports due to the economic crisis

Submitted by ClaraKhin on Sun, 19/12/2021 - 10:25

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Crossroads, Crossing, Sign Posts, Street lights, Traffic Lights.

Submitted by farah. on Mon, 06/12/2021 - 20:12

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I live in a building and it is inside a small society all of the roads in our society are in proper condition, which makes driving easy, you'll also see lots of street lights and crossings also. I usually see kids riding skates or bicycle on the pavement, having strong roads and pavement is so important to prevent accidents there is another society close to us and the roads are damaged from heavy raining and many accidents have taken place over there. This one time a kid fell from his bicycle and he broke his leg because of the damaged roads.

Submitted by ali1891 on Sat, 27/11/2021 - 12:57

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Our house is in the Safir BLV. and it is four stories, and my home is on the third floor, there is a crossroads near my home, It's name is Sarbaz, there is o lot of traffic on the Safir street, and there is a lot of street lights in the middle of the street and on the corner of street,

Submitted by Ray Tam on Sun, 14/11/2021 - 19:05

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Almost all of these things I can see in my hometown. It’s a little bit different that there are traffic lights set in front of roundabouts close the centre of Edinburgh.

Submitted by it'sBeBe on Mon, 01/11/2021 - 10:41

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There's some street lights in the street where my house is located. At the corner of the main road and my street, signpost is available too. Signposts are available for almost every streets and roads.

Submitted by mare_bo on Mon, 11/10/2021 - 17:28

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I live in Zagreb, capital of Croatia. It's a big town. Not a city of millions but it's the biggest in our country. We have all of these 'things' in our city. And we have a problem because we don't have good roads for bicycles and motorcycles. Because of that many people ride them on the pavement and many accidents happen.
In the center there are lots of signposts so tourists can find attractions easily.