Talking About Your Hometown in English Basic English Phrases

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hi everybody my name is Alisha in this

lesson I’m going to talk about some

expressions you can use to talk about

your hometown or your home city or maybe

your home country let’s get started okay

the first sentence of the first

expression that I want to talk about is

just a basic introduction I’m from so

I’m from your city or I’m from your

country please be careful I’ve noticed

in like the comments section of the

videos that we make for example many of

you introduce yourself but you forget

this I’m from I’m from I often see the

mistake I from which is incorrect so

that’s not correct we should use i’m

from remember i’m is the contracted the

reduced form of i am i am from city I am

from country so please don’t forget this

mmm I am I am from a city when we make a

sentence with this we could say I’m from

Vietnam for a country I’m from Vietnam

or from a city I’m from Bangkok so you

can choose either one your city or your

country both are fine to use so if you

want to choose something different or if

you want to explain in a little more

detail specifically you can use an

expression like this I was born in a

city or in a specific country I was born

in another mistake I see with students

is they forget this was I often see

comments that say I born in which is

incorrect I was born in city or country

I was born in Brazil in the case of a

country I was born in Cambodia so you

can use your country name here of course

if you want to use a city for example I

was born in Bangkok and you want to give

more information maybe for some reason

the person you’re talking to doesn’t

know that city or maybe it’s a really

small city

you can say it’s in country so for

example I was born in Bangkok it’s in

Thailand so you can explain the country

as a follow up with this expression it’s

in where it is your city it is in

Thailand in this case it’s in country

then if you want to share some

information about your hometown these

are some expressions you can use to do

that these are very open so I hope that

you can find something that helps you

the first one is it has a lot of noun

phrase it has a lot of noun phrase here

it means your city or your country it’s

probably best to talk about your city

here so if you live in a really small

city maybe you can share about your

country maybe your country is small too

so it’s good to share about something

that’s maybe easy to understand if

you’re introducing your city or your

country so you could say it has a lot of

something so some examples would be it

has a lot of traffic like if your city

has a lot of traffic you can mention

that it has a lot of good food or it has

a lot of nature so there’s some kind of

simple noun phrase here that you can use

to describe something in your city

please note we use has it has the city

has so not is we use is for adjectives

we’re using has here because these are

noun phrases so you could say it is busy

city or it is a Windy City for example

but when you’re using a noun phrase you

need to change your verb here it has a

lot of traffic it has a lot of nature so

please be careful about this point let’s

go to the next point it’s famous for its

famous for so in some cultures each city

or each country maybe has some specific

thing that that city is really

well-known for you can use this

expression to describe that thing it’s

famous for again it is your city or

maybe your country it’s famous for

something so

again there’s some noun phrase some MIDI

activity some famous item for example

it’s famous for spicy food like my

country is famous for spicy food for

example or it’s famous for entertainment

or nightlife maybe so think of something

that your city is well known for so like

for example Las Vegas maybe it’s famous

for entertainment that’s something we

could say about Las Vegas in the USA ok

another expression you can use that’s

very similar to it has a lot of is this

one here I’ve made two sentences or two

expressions you can use there is or

there are a lot of something so there is

or reduced there’s or there are a lot of

something so this is kind of a different

way to say this very similar let’s look

at some examples here this is kind of a

negative point but there’s a lot of

crime so maybe your hometown is rather

dangerous and you want to talk about

that you can say there is a lot of crime

crime is like activities or actions that

are against the law they are illegal so

to describe that you can say there’s a

lot of crime in my hometown or there are

a lot of animals maybe in your city it’s

really closely connected to nature and

you can say there are a lot of animals

so just be cautious here there is a lot

of crime so crime is a mass noun or a

plural noun rather so we can use this is

form but here when we have there are we

need to use this s at the end of the

word there are a lot of animals the

plural form there are a lot of animals

so just pay attention if you’re using a

singular noun or you’re using this like

plural or mass noun that has no S at the

end you can use this is form if you’re

using a plural noun there are it’s fine

so there are a lot of animals ok let’s

go on to the next one

lots of people like to do something lots

of people like to and he

we’ll do it we’ll have like inactivity

some kind of verb phrase probably lots

of people like to go out at night so for

Las Vegas for example lots of people

like to go out at night or lots of

people like to do outdoor sports

so you’ll notice I’ve got a verb here

lots of people like to verb and then

some other information to tell us about

that lots of people like to swim in the

river something that is like an activity

that’s kind of unique or that’s

particularly interesting for your city

okay

finally the population this is another

one people like to talk about if you

want to be specific you can say of

course my hometown is very small or my

home city is really big you can talk

about it like that

yes if you want to give the specific

number how many people you can use this

expression population means the number

of people in your city or the number of

people in your country so the population

is and follow it with the number the

population is about 20,000 people or

about 150,000 people I have people in

parentheses here because we don’t really

need to use it but you might hear people

say people at the end of this expression

we don’t need to include people here

because we have population we know

population means the number of people

though sometimes we include this you

don’t need to really the population is

about 20,000 is perfect okay let’s go on

then to the last couple points the last

points I marked here these are about the

weather so a really common topic when

you’re talking about your hometown is

the weather these are a few expressions

you can use to talk about what the

weather is like in your hometown for

example it rains a lot it rains a lot or

you could say it’s very rainy it’s dry

you might say for example in the summer

it’s dry or in winter it’s dry so it

here refers to weather like weather

patterns it

means a lot it’s dry another one the

weather is sunny year round so this is a

word or a hyphenated word year round

which means all throughout the year so

non-stop the weather is sunny year-round

another good word to know is humid it’s

humid so this is when like mm-hm a good

example might be like a tropical

situation a tropical city or a tropical

country so maybe the temperature it’s

not so hot maybe sometimes but the water

content the moisture content in the air

is very high so we call that humid it’s

humid it’s very humid you might also

hear the word muggy muggy muggy is a

little bit less formal than humid it

sounds a little more negative to it’s

few minutes so human so these are a few

weather related words that climate

related words here you can replace this

word rains with something else like it

snows a lot for example it rains a lot

it snows a lot maybe it hails where

you’re from hail is like a ball of ice

so when you want to talk about

precipitation like things coming from

clouds you could use this pattern

alright so this is just a quick

introduction to a few things that I hope

can help you as you try to explain your

hometown or your home country to other

people if there’s something else that

you would like to know how to say or if

you have any questions or comments or if

you want to practice making an

introduction to your home city please

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