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 Besriaty Simanullang on Thu, 05/02/2026 - 14:40

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  • Every weekend, the local government holds a food festival at the town square.
  • A signpost at the street corner is very helpful because it help us not to get lost.
  • My city is not very friendly to pedestrians because the pavements are in bad condition
     
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Submitted by abukhater on Sat, 31/01/2026 - 05:42

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Where I live, I am close to the main road. When I go to work, after I leave my house, I wait at the traffic lights until they turn green for pedestrians, then I cross the road at the crossing. After that, I wait for the bus stop. 

When I return home, sometimes I am late, and there is no bus available. In that case, I look for a signpost showing the taxi stop, and I usually wait on the pavement for a taxi. 

Submitted by Safe_Mode on Mon, 26/01/2026 - 06:19

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Do we use 'crossroads' as a plural only? What if we need to talk about several crossroads?

Hello Safe_Mode,

Crossroads can be used as a singular or plural form:

This crossroads is really badly designed and causes a lot of traffic congestion.

There are three crossroads on the route. Turn left at the last one.

 

Peter

The LearnEnglish Team

Submitted by Safe_Mode on Mon, 26/01/2026 - 06:15

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The crossroads with traffic lights and crossings are located right near my home. There're pavements and street lights along the road and a bit further there is a bus stop.

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Submitted by Hay_Mar_Lwin on Sat, 24/01/2026 - 07:47

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Me and my friends are often spent out leisure time in our people square. Every Friday night, there are a lot of light festivals in square area and many people are enjoying this.

Submitted by yuzu on Tue, 11/11/2025 - 05:05

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This is the way i go from my home to train station. In front of my home, there is a roads with so many cars and motorbikes.So, i passtrough the crossings and walk straight to the train station beside the railway.Sometime, i have to wait the train traffic light beacuse the train station is on the other side of the road.

Submitted by Phanmany on Mon, 27/10/2025 - 16:34

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I walked along the way on the pavement to my new college. There was a lot of traffic, and the traffic lights turned red and blue so many times.  I was starting to cross the road when the traffic light turned red. Every early morning, all my comrades were gathering at the square to sing the National Assembly song. Then, I took a bus from the bus stop when I left my college. On the way home, I could see many signposts and streetlights along the pavement.