Quick Tips 002: Where do you live?

In this episode, Kevin and Jack teach a lesson related to where they live. They begin the episode with a practice dialogue. Next, they unpack vocabulary related to the dialogue. Finally, the answer the discussion questions on the homework guide. You can download a copy of the homework guide for episode four here.

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Transcript: Quick Tips 2: Where do you live? 

You're listening to the A to Z English Podcast. 

Welcome to the A to Z English Podcast. We are here to help you with anything English A to Z. I'm Kevin. 

And I'm Jack. 

Kevin: And today we're going to talk about where you live. We're going to start with a dialogue that Jack and I will read, then we'll look to unpack some of the vocabulary that we used in the dialogue. And finally, we'll have a short discussion about the topic. Remember you can follow along with the PDF that will be linked in our show notes. And that you can join our WhatsApp group to ask questions or join the discussion yourself. So let's go ahead and start with our dialogue. 

Jack: Where do you live? 

Kevin: I live in Seoul. 

Jack: Where is Seoul? 

Kevin: It's in South Korea. 

Jack: Is Seoul a big city? 

Kevin: It's incredibly big. 

Jack: How big is incredibly big? 

Kevin: It has about 10 million people. 

Jack: Wow, that's huge. 

Kevin: And where do you live? 

Jack: I live in Los Angeles California. 

Kevin: How big is Los Angeles? 

Jack: It has about 4 million people. It's tiny compared to Seoul. 

 

Kevin: Cool, so now Jack let's look at some of the vocabulary here from here. The first word we've got here is incredibly incredible. And, and what does that mean? We said that it's incredibly big. So what is incredible? 

Jack: Yeah, incredibly and maybe we should first, uh say what part of speech that is. So, incredibly is uh again that's a kind of, uh a kind of word and it's called an adverb. Yeah right, but when you see l-y words that have l y in them are often called adverbs and they're right verbs.

 Kevin: Yeah it's changing the verb right?

Jack: exactly and so incredibly means too a large degree so you know, too a large amount, or too a large degree, something is a very uh strongly, incredibly, um can you think of some other words that might be similar to incredibly?

Kevin: Amazingly, amazingly, 

Jack: Yes fantastically 

Jack: fantastically. 

Kevin: Really, any of those words just adding the l y, and amazing fantastic. 

Jack: It's a very incredible word, yeah right yeah. 

Kevin: And about number two about, if something is about something else what is what does that mean in this context? 

Jack: Yeah so so about has different meanings in different context, but in the context of our dialogue about means more or less. So if I say about 10 million does that mean exactly 10 million Kevin? 

Kevin: No, of course not it's more or less than. It's near 10 million, about 10 million. 

Jack: Exactly, so it could be 9 million, 950,000 would be about 10 million. 

Kevin: Right. 

Jack: Or if I borrow ten dollars from Kevin and I give him nine that's about ten dollars right Kevin? 

Kevin: It's about ten dollars, but I want my extra dollars. Give me my money back down. 

Jack: Fair enough, fair enough, Yeah, that's a good point okay. 

Kevin: It's not a it's not a huge difference, but that one dollar does make some difference. And number three then what is huge? 

Jack: Yeah, huge well, again that one dollar is not huge, but if I took a million dollars from Kevin that would be a large amount, uh so something large is huge. So we use this you know for all the time I use the word huge to describe like how about an elephant how would you describe an elephant? 

Kevin: Yeah, they're huge animals. 

Jack: They're huge animals right. 

Kevin: Even bigger than the blue whale, the hugest, the biggest animal on the earth. 

Jack: There you go. Uh yeah, another word is enormous or, yeah huge, enormous,

Kevin: Gigantic.

Jack: Those are another synonyms of the word huge, yeah. 

Kevin: Right some countries America is a huge country, rightp, China is a huge country, South Korea is a pretty small country Overall. It's not very big in size. 

Jack: Or you could say it's tiny. 

Kevin: You could say that, so tiny is just small, but it's more than small it's not just small it's very small it's tiny something that's tiny. 

Jack: Could we say it's incredibly small? Incredibly cool? 

Kevin: I wouldn't say that South Korea is incredibly small, but something that's tiny we could say is incredibly small. So next to that huge elephant what would be a tiny animal? 

Jack: A mouse. 

Kevin: Right, you've got a tiny mouse next to that huge elephant. 

Jack:  And maybe an incredibly tiny, uh animal or not animal, but an insect could be an ant. 

Kevin: Right. 

Kevin: There you go, so there we go nice so let's go ahead and talk about some of the discussion questions here about where we actually live? Now, Jack, you know, you and I, we both do live in South Korea of course, so we're in different cities. So where, what's your city? Where are you? 

Jack:  Well, I live in Pyeongtaek, and Pyeongtaek is, it'll be just outside of Seoul, so I'm maybe 45 minutes away from Seoul. If you take a bus, it takes about 45 minutes to get to Seoul. 

Kevin: Okay, yeah not too far, but not just a foot outside. 

Jack: Yeah, uh what about you, Kevin? 

Kevin: Have 45 minutes, that's a good one. It's not exactly 45 minutes, a lot of times. 

Jack: Sometimes, 50 minutes. Sometimes, one hour if there is a lot of traffic. 

Kevin: Right, right. 

Jack: Yeah if it's, uh, incredibly busy on the freeway, then which one? Kevin: It's Often in Korea. 

Jack:  Yeah, um Kevin, what about you? Where do you live? 

Kevin: I'm in Seoul. I'm in Seoul proper. And Seoul is a huge City, so I'm up in the northern part of Seoul, so I'm probably from your house, it's about, almost two hours away just to. 

Jack: Probably because Seoul is a very wide open City. I mean the land is by land, it's very huge. 

Kevin: Yeah it's very spread out. 

Jack: Not just by population, but also by Land, so yeah yeah. 

Kevin: It was definitely big. 

Jack: Yeah, so if you're in the north and I'm in the south of the city, it probably is about two hours, probably I'm about two hours away from you, yeah. 

Kevin: Which is why we meet here on Zoom because so much, so much easier. 

Jack: For sure. 

Kevin: So you live down in down in Chunky Duck. I mean that's a little bit different from Seoul, but you know Seoul pretty well of course, and what do you like about Pyeongtaek? What's interesting about that City? 

Jack: Something I like about Pyeongtaek is that it's a little bit quieter than Seoul. Seoul is a very busy city. There are a lot of people, and there is a lot of traffic, and it's very loud and noisy all the time in Seoul, but in Kangertech there's less traffic, uh there are fewer people and, it is a little bit quieter than Seoul. So I like that. It's a little bit more like the countryside, just a little bit. Just a little bit. 

Kevin: Right. 

Jack: Yeah, what about you? What do you like about Seoul? 

Kevin: Well, so I mean being such a huge City. It has everything, everything. If you want to go shopping or shopping, there's amusement parks, there's movie theater, there's a park, there's a river. And so as far as big cities go is pretty amazing. It's got really everything you want. It's a pretty fun city to live in I think. Uh, there's never you are bored in Seoul. 

Jack: You've got movie theaters and amusement parks and just everything right? 

Kevin: Yeah, and I'm from a pretty small town in Arizona when I was in university, so the difference from there to Seoul is huge, the difference as well. And yeah, it's nice to have everything that I want, but to be fair, sometimes, Seoul is a little too big for me. Actually there's a little too many people as we said in the dialogue, it's I think there's more than 10 million people here. It's crazy. 

Jack: It's a lot of people. 

Kevin: It's a lot of people and driving on the roads is difficult, riding on the subway, the Subways are great in Seoul, but during rush hour time, there's a lot of people riding on the trains in Seoul, and that's not so fun here. Sometimes, it's a little too big for me. 

Jack: Do people sometimes push you onto the subway, like so that the train is packed? 

Kevin: It's super packed. You can't not push on the subway. There's just so many people in the rush hour time that it's really tough. 

Jack: Yeah,. 

Kevin: So that's something even though Seoul is a good city I do it's almost too big for me. But what about Pyeongtaek for you? I know you said it's kind of nice, but it's not perfect. 

Jack: Yeah, well what don't I like about Pyeongtaek? Well, something that I don't like about Pyeongtaek is that there aren't as many choices of places to go in Pyeongtaek. So I think it's the opposite of what you just said, you said there are a lot of movie theaters, and uh you know amusement parks, and things like that in Seoul. Also, there are no mountains in Pyeongtaek. And I like hiking and I can't go hiking in Pyeongtaek. I have to go somewhere else, but even in.. 

Kevin: a lot of mountains. 

Jack: Yeah, even in Seoul there are quite a few mountains, so it's easy to go hiking. But in contact we're kind of in a valley, like it's kind of a flat area, so there are no mountains to hike up. And I wish there were some mountains. 

Kevin: Fair enough, cool well Chung Tech and Seoul are both nice cities, but they leave a little bit to be desired maybe. 

Kevin: So everybody thanks for listening today. Remember to join our WhatsApp group and come tell us about where do you live? Where  do you live? What's your city like? How big is it? Um, what do you like? What do you not like about the city where you are? Also, you can ask any questions or just feel free to chat with each other. Hope to see you there. Have a good one all. 

Jack: Right, bye-bye. 

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