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1
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a shop dealing with cosmetic treatments for men and women (gabinet kosmetyczny)

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Beauty parlour/salon

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a shop where clothes are cleaned with chemicals

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Dry cleaner’s

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a shop where you pay to use the machines there which will wash and dry clothes (pralnia)

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Launderette /lo:nd’ret/

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a shop where clothes are cleaned with chemicals

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Dry cleaner’s

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a shop in which fresh vegetables and fruit are sold (warzywniak)

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Greengrocer’s

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a shop that sells mainly alcoholic drinks to be taken away and drunk at home (monopolowy)

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Off-licence (UK)/Liquor shop (US)

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a place where the bodies of dead people are prepared to be buried or burned (zaklad pogrzebowy)

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Funeral parlour

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a place where a town’s rubbish is put (wysypisko smieci)

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Refuse dump

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a home for children whose parents are dead or unable to care for them (sierociniec)

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Orphanage

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a place where births, deaths and marriages are officially recorded and where you can get officially married, without a religious ceremony (urzad cywilny)

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Registry office

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a building in which Jewish people worship and study their religion

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Synagogue /’sln.a.gDg/

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a place for worship which is holy because of a connection with a holy person or object (swiątynia)

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Shrine /[rain/

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a building in which monks live and worship (klasztor)

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Monastery

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a building for Islamic religious activities and worship (meczet)

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Mosque /mDsk/

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UK a place where you can go to ask advice from or receive treatment from a doctor or dentist (przychodnia; gabinet lekarski)

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Surgery

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a building in which you can go bowling, or the narrow track along which balls are rolled during a bowling game (kręgielnia)

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Bowling alley

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a closed area in which people shoot guns at targets, either for entertainment or in order to improve their shooting skills (strzelnica)

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Shooting gallery

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a large public event where goods are bought and sold, usually from tables which have been specially arranged for the event, and where there is often entertainment (targi)

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Fairs

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an outside restaurant where drinks and small meals are served

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Tea garden

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the areas that form the edge of a town or city {He lives in/on the outskirts of Poznan)

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Outskirts

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an area of a country or town which has fixed borders that are used for official purposes, or which has a particular feature that makes it different from surrounding areas

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District

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the outer area of a town, rather than the shopping and business centre in the middle {The company decided to relocate to the suburbs because the rent was cheaper there)

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The suburbs

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an old building or place which is an important part of a country’s history (zabytek)

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Ancient/historic monument

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a large building divided into apartments, usually in a poor area of a city (kamienica czynszowa)

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Tenement (house)

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describes a house that is not connected to any other building (dom wolnostojący)

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Detached house

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a house that is semi-detached is one that is joined to another similar house on only one side (blizniak)

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Semi-detached house

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UK (also terrace) built as or belonging to a row of often small houses joined together along their side walls (szeregowiec)

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Terraced house

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a set of stairs inside a building usually with a bar fixed on the wall or onto vertical poles at the side for you to hold on to (klatka schodowa)

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Staircase (UK)/ Stairway (US)

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a building in which local government officials and employees work and have meetings (ratusz)

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Town hall

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the land and buildings owned by someone, especially by a company or organization (e.g. The company is relocating to new premises.)

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Premises (plural noun)

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a strip of countryside round a city or town where building is not allowed (pas zieleni)

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Green belt

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a strong fence which separates the two sides of a large road or which is built at a dangerous place at the edge of a road, to help prevent accidents

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Crash barrier

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a machine, usually in a wall outside a bank, from which you can take money out of your bank account using a special card {e.g. Is there an ATM on this street? I need to get some money out.)

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Cashpoint (UK) / ATM (US) (automated teller machine)

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a special machine to validate your ticket when you travel by bus/metro etc. (kasownik)

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Ticket validator/ ticket validation machine

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a path with a hard surface on one or both sides of a road, that people walk on (chodnik)

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Pavement (UK)/ Sidewalk (US)

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the edge of a raised path nearest the road (krawężnik)

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Kerb (UK)/ Curb (US)

37
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a rounded stone used on the surface of an old-fashioned road (bruk; kostka brukowa)

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Cobble or Cobblestone

38
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a special route for bicycles

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Bicycle path

39
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an area of ground for parking cars

Attended / Unattended xxx yyy - strzezony/niestrzezony

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Car park (UK) / Parking lot (US)

40
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a building for parking cars

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Parking garage (US)

41
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a device at the side of the road that you put money into so that you can leave your vehicle there for a particular amount of time (parkometr)

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Parking meter

42
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a small raised area built across a road to force people to drive more slowly (prog zwalniajajcy) (e.g. Local residents are asking for speed bumps to be installed in their street.)

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Speed bump / Sleeping policeman

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a large vehicle that is driven from one house to another to collect rubbish from the dustbins outside (smieciarka)

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Dustcart (UK) / Garbage truck (US)

44
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a road or path that goes under something such as a busy road, allowing vehicles or people to go from one side to the other (przejscie podziemne)

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Subway (UK) / Underpass (US)

45
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a place on a road, especially one where there is a lot of traffic, across which wide black and white lines are painted, and at which vehicles must stop to allow people to walk across the road

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Zebra crossing (UK)/CrosswaIk (US)

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a tall post which holds a light at the side of roads and in other public places

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Lamppost

47
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a place where taxis wait for customers

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Taxi rank (UK)

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a place where three or more roads join and traffic must go around a circular area in the middle, rather than straight across (rondo)

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Roundabout (UK) / Traffic circle (US )

49
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a road built around a town or village so that traffic does not need to travel through it (obwodnica)

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Bypass

50
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a different route that is used because a road is closed (objazd) (e.g. Traffic diversions will be kept to a minimum throughout the festival.)

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Diversion (UK) / Detour (US)

51
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a road which is closed at one end, and therefore does not lead anywhere (slepa uliczka)

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Dead-end

52
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an official notice which is put on your vehicle when you have parked illegally, and which tells you that you must pay a particular amount of money as punishment

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Parking ticket

53
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a device that is designed to prevent vehicles from being moved; mostly to force the payment of outstanding parking tickets (blokada na kolo)

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Wheel clamp (in the USA also Denver boot)

54
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a uniformed local government formation established to protect public order and peace in the town, (straz miejska)

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Municipal police

55
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a set of stairs moved up or down by electric power on which people can stand and be taken from one level of a building to another, especially in shops, railway stations and airports (e.g. I’ll meet you by the up/down escalator on the second floor.) (schody ruchome)

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Escalator /’es.ka.lel.tar /

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a set of doors which you go through by pushing them round in a circle (drzwi obrotowe)

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Revolving door

57
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a piece of land on which a house or other building is being built

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Construction site

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a seat joined by two ropes or chains to a metal bar or a tree, on which especially a child can sit and move backwards and forwards (hustawka)

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Swing

59
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the system of carrying away waste water and human waste from houses and other buildings through large underground pipes or passages (kanalizacja)

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Sewage

60
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a place where sewage is treated so that it can be safely got rid of or changed into fertilizer (oczyszczalnia sciekow)

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Sewage works (UK) / Sewage treatment plant (US)

61
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a pipe or channel which is used to carry away waste matter and water from a building, or an opening in the road which rain water can flow down (odplyw, studzienka sciekowa)

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Drain

62
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a hole in a road surface which results from gradual damage caused by traffic and/or weather (koleina) caused by traffic and/or weather (koleina)

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Pothole

63
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a person who is elected or chosen to be the leader of the group who governs a town or city

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Mayor

64
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an elected member of a local government

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Councillor (councilman/councilwoman)

65
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province; in Poland an area which is governed as part of a country

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Voivodeship

66
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a system of vehicles such as buses and trains which operate at regular times on fixed routes and are used by the public (komunikacja publiczna)

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Public transport

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