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 alleche.bouale… on Sun, 13/04/2025 - 22:44

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I usually drive from my home in the countryside to my work at university. I cross many crossroads and roundabouts on my trajectory, but never traffic lights. There're many cars, buses and lorries on the roads, though I generally never face to rush hours since I'm not bounded by time. This'd because I go and return whenever I want!

Submitted by Bubcia on Tue, 01/04/2025 - 16:13

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I live in the capital of Poland. There are many crossroads, roundabouts etc. On each corner of the street there are traffic lights and street lights to make roads look brighter and to  make people feel safe. 

I dont usually see trafiic but I believe that the city is really crowded in the rush hour. Thats why I always use my bicycle to move from one place to another. It is really easy, even if you don't know the city well because Warsaw has signposts everywhere.

Submitted by proud_g_fmb on Tue, 25/03/2025 - 06:33

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In the capital city of Myanmar, Nay Pyi Taw has many wide roads, traffic lights, street lights and  especially roundabouts. At the corner of  the main roads and streets, there has signposts that show which shops or restaurants are located in. So, you can easily find out the place where you want to.

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Submitted by fatimakh on Thu, 13/03/2025 - 01:14

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There are a road near my home , traffic and bus station .

Submitted by YuliaBurevych on Thu, 06/03/2025 - 09:03

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Now I live in a big city. There are many crossroads, roundabouts and traffic lights. At rush hour there are traffic jams. In my window I can see road and crossroads. Fortunately, there are good pavements for walking.

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Submitted by Dialome on Wed, 05/03/2025 - 23:49

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From my window I can see roads, pavements, street lights and too much traffic, but what I would really like to see or having near my home it's a square.
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Submitted by Ghofran21 on Mon, 17/02/2025 - 16:29

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Near my home there are roads,crossroads but unfortunately we don't have crossing and pavements for people to walk on and also no traffic lights.

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Submitted by Ferferre on Sun, 09/02/2025 - 19:05

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Very good exercises.

Submitted by HPerezB on Wed, 20/11/2024 - 01:39

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I live in a big city so, we have a lot of traffic lights.

Submitted by Ika_P on Sat, 26/10/2024 - 10:26

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In my window i can see crossroads, roads, traffic lights and street lights, in rush hour many traffic too. I live now in Vietnam and here there are many bike drivers, they park their bikes usually on the pavements and it's impossible to go for a walk there.