What is bad about your town?
Anita, Taiwan
What is bad about my hometown? I'm from Taiwan and I come from Taipei, and Taipei is a very big city in Taiwan but it's very dirty and the air is bad, the traffic is bad. I don't feel like living in Taipei, so that's why my mom and dad choose to live in the side city near Taipei.
Al, England
My hometown is called Stevenich and there's nothing I can say that's positive about my hometown. It has no green spaces, no cultural icons and really nowhere to go, so don't go there.
Barbara, Australia
One thing bad about my hometown, well, my hometown is Perth, in Western Australia, and I guess the only bad thing I can think of is the public transport system, the buses, they really don't run on time. There's not enough of them. The bus fleet is fairly old. That's really one bad thing about my hometown.
Jeff, Canada
What's one bad thing about my hometown? I live in a small little island on the east coast of Canada and there's not much there. There's not much entertainment. There's no restaurants. There's no movie theaters, so it's very quiet. Some people would say very boring, but I think you have to find other things to do like hiking or you learn how to play the guitar and play music and reading and writing so I think the bad thing about my hometown is there's not much to do, but it makes you create other things and do other things.
Mark, The Unites States
Something bad about my hometown? I guess for me something bad would be it's not very diverse. There's lots of white people and lots of black people, but that's about it. There aren't a lot of Asian people or Europeans or people of different ethnicities and I'm someone who likes New York or a more international type place, so I wish it were a little more diverse.
Simon, Canada
Vancouver? What's not good about Vancouver? Well, I think that the people of Vancouver overrate the city, and that's kind of, they think it's the best place to live on earth. It's the nicest looking city on earth. Yes, it's beautiful. It's a really nice place to live but it also rains eight months of the year and it's probably not the most cosmopolitan city on earth.
run on time
The buses don't run on time.
Kinds of transportation that 'run on time' such as buses, and trains, depart and arrive on scheduled. They are not late. Notice the following:
- The trains in Tokyo always run on time.
- In my city, buses rarely run on time and often have no timetable.
fleet
The bus fleet is fairly old.
A 'fleet' is a group of some kind of transportation; for example, buses, ships or airplanes. Notice the following:
- The city will replace it's aging fleet of buses by the end of the year.
- The seaside village was home to a small fishing fleet.
diverse
I wish my city were a little more diverse.
We use 'diverse' to talk about differences within a group of similar things. Notice the following:
- America is a culturally diverse country.
- I've got diverse musical tastes. I download rock, pop, jazz, classical, just about everything.
overrate
The people of Vancouver overrate the city.
To 'overrate' someone or something means to have a higher opinion than we should. Notice the following:
- Many companies overrate the importance of English skills.
- I think people overrate traveling. I love to relax at home.
cosmopolitan
It's probably not the most cosmopolitan city on earth.
A 'cosmopolitan' city is diverse and modern. Notice the following:
- Hong Kong is probably the most cosmopolitan city in China.
- My home town is small and not very cosmopolitan.
Vocabulary Quiz
overrated • cosmopolitan
