USEFUL LANGUAGE FOR DESCRIBING PLACES Flashcards
Describe an area in words ending with beauty
An area of outstanding natural beauty
A tourist ……..
A tourist hotspot
A place where a lot of tourists go
A seaside ……….
A seaside resort
A place with a beach and lots of facilities for a beach holiday
A s….w….g metropolis
A sprawling metropolis ie it is spread out; it is huge
As pretty as a picture
Picturesque
Full of ugly grey buildings and a lack of green spaces
A concrete jungle
An isolated place in the middle of nowhere
A rural backwater
A must for shopaholics and window shoppers
A shopper’s paradise
Relatively expensive and designed to appeal to affluent consumers
UPMARKET
It’s worth visiting because ……
Because it had stunningly beautiful architecture
It’s not worth visiting because ……..
run-down and full of dilapidated buildings or graffiti and derelict buildings