Okay.
Welcome back to the fourth part of this course and the third part to the vocabulary section of this
course.
So in this section, we will be looking at really big cities or big metropolitan areas.
So if you come from the capital city of your country or if you live or reside in the bigger city, so
you can use this vocabulary to describe it.
Or alternatively, if you need to describe a big city that you have visited, you can use this type
of vocabulary.
So first things first.
Write down some words to describe this picture.
So this looks like New York, actually, if I'm not mistaken.
And have a look at this picture.
What can you see?
What type of transport can you see?
Use some words to describe it.
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Remember to pause the video so that you have some time to write down some vocabulary.
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So I can see loads of things in this picture that I haven't mentioned.
In my eight words, I can see buses, taxis.
They would be called cabs in America.
I can see traffic lights.
I can see a lot of pedestrians walking.
I can see some traffic signs.
I can see a police officer.
And a lot of skyscrapers.
So that is we're number three and the synonym for that would be a high rise building.
I see plenty of high rise buildings in this picture as well.
So my first word is round the clock.
Number two, endless skyscraper, high rise building.
Number five, a rooftop bar.
Number six, transport system.
Number seven, convenience.
Eight smoothly.
So this is an advert we'll be looking at today.
So I've written here that this city is busy round the clock.
There are endless opportunities here.
There are plenty of skyscrapers and high rise buildings.
Many of them have rooftop bars, which are perfect places to enjoy the sunset.
The transport system is convenient and runs smoothly with trains, buses and taxis available at most
hours to get to help you get around.
Okay.
So let's have a look at our words.
The first one, round the clock.
I would say this is an idiomatic phrase and this means that you are busy or active all the time.
So from 12:00 until 12:00 every day, you are busy.
So, you know, it's just a it's a figure of speech.
So I can't see anyone really working for 24 hours a day.
But to say that he works really hard and he works a lot, we can say he works round the clock.
Hey.
Endless.
So this means that it does not end.
So.
So let's remember the suffix.
This means that you do not have something.
So it has no end.
So the end end would be the noun.
Adjective is endless, and a synonym to that is never ending.
So you can use it like an endless row of people.
It feels like the zero is never going to end or it's an endless night.
Or like I've used it in my description.
The city has endless opportunities and we also have, you know, you can say to put an end to something
means to put a stop to something or an endless amount of something.
So remember with use it with an amount.
Okay.
A skyscraper.
So I love this word.
I think it's one of my favorites.
It's a building that scrapes the sky, which is so strange.
It's a funny word, but yes.
So it's a really, really tall building.
And big cities are covered in skyscrapers.
High rise buildings also synonym.
Hey, probably skyscrapers have this perception that they are much bigger than high rise buildings.
So, yes, do it as a high rise as a noun.
Or to describe a building in an adjective.
A high rise building.
Rooftop bar.
So a rooftop bar is a bar that is situated at the top of the building.
So if you look at the picture, the woman is having a drink at the top of the bar.
She has the entire city skyline as her view, which I think must be very atmospheric.
So rooftop is the noun and it can also be used as an adjective.
Transport system.
So this is the methods of getting around the city, including cars, buses, trains, trams or anything
along those lines.
So you could describe the transport system and say it is a reliable transport system.
Or like in my country, we have a non-existent transport system.
So you need you need your own mode of transport to get around where.
But some cities have really advanced transport systems with high tech trains and so on.
So it is a known transport.
It can also be used as an adjective as well as a verb.
So the this company transports goods from one city to another.
For example.
Convenient.
So convenience is an adjective, the noun is convenience, and it's something that makes your life more
simple.
So I think that my smartphone, my iPhone makes my life more simple.
So it is really convenient to take with me wherever I go.
You can use the noun in a in a way to say this has added convenience to my life, or I can find something
convenient, so I find my phone convenient or my phone seems convenient.
Okay, there is a sample sentence over there.
The trains are very convenient in my city.
And last word smoothly.
So smooth would be the adjective.
So the adverb is smooth, and this is how you do something.
So to act in a smooth way.
So the car drives smoothly.
The transport system works smoothly in my city.
Okay, so it's a way to describe how things are working in your city.
So even if you do not come from a big city, think about the capital city of your country.
How would you compare it to some of the biggest cities in the world?
Remember, in the beginning, in part one, I compared my hometown to some of the other cities in my
country.
You could do this to compare your hometown to one of the bigger cities in your country.
Was like, okay.
And stay tuned for part five of this course and the last section of the vocabulary section in this course
where we will be looking at the countryside and some vocabulary to describe that.
See you soon.