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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