Where You Live Flashcards
Our local cuisine is so amazing!!
French cuisine
Cuisine: a style of cooking
The sprawling suburbs.
Sprawling: spread out over a parge area in an untidy or irregular way.
The majority of young professionals in the capital have moved there from provincial towns.
Provincial attitudes
Provincial: adj 1- in or from the parts of the country that are not the capital city.
2- having opinions and ideas that are old-fashioned and simple.
Shahrak e gharb is one of the most built-up areas in tehran.
Built-up: a built-up area is one where there are a lot of buildings.
Some areas in tehran are run-down.
Run down: adj
Run-down buildings or areas are in very bad condition
Some neighbourhoods are very up-market /chic
Up-market = chic
The new offices are light and airy.
Airy: with a lot of light and space.
Old houses need a lot of maintenance.
The magazine offers tips on cutting your house maintenance costs.
The maintenance costs of having a house are usually higher.
Maintenance:
the work needed to keep a road, building, machine, etc. in good condition.
My dream house would be a rambling, well-decorated penthouse in a quiet residential area.
Rambling: large and spreading out in many different directions.
Spacious rural cottage in a mountainous area of …
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That was a single storey house with about five bedrooms.
Most of the houses in this street have three or four storeys.
She jumped from the third storey of the house to escape the fire.
Storey: a level of building
