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Situation: David and Melanie make conversation after meeting at a party.
Style: friendly and quite informal

- Do you live ………………?
- No, I don’t. I live about ………….. miles away.
- Whereabouts do you live?
- I live in a place …………….. Finchley.
- Oh, I know Finchley. My sister ………… ……….. live there about five years ago. It’s a lovely part of town, not too …………….. to the centre, but not too far away either.
- Yes, I like living there. It’s an easy commute to ……………. .

Notes:
1. Do you live locally = Do you live near here? / Do you live nearby?
2. I don’t. (using only the auxiliary) = I don’t live locally
3. about ten (10) miles away = approximately ten miles from here (more formal)
4. Whereabouts…? = Where exactly…?
5. in a place called Finchley = a place that is called Finchley
6. I know Finchley = I am familiar with Finchley
7. My sister used to live there = My sister lived there in the past
8. about five years ago = approximately five years ago
9. It’s a lovely part of town = it is a very nice area of this town / It is a lovely part of London (note: we sometimes say ‘a nice part of town’ or ‘in the centre of town’, without the article ‘the’ before ‘town’, when we know which town we are talking about. But we do not say ‘in the centre of city’ or ‘in the centre of village’ – for these phrases, we always need to use the definite article (the) or demonstrative adjective (this/that) , so we say ‘ in the centre of the city’ or ‘a lovely part of this village’.)
10. not too close to the centre = it is not too near to the centre of town
11. not too far away either = not too far from the centre either
12. I like living there = I enjoy living in that place
13. It’s an easy commute to work (note: here ‘commute’ is a noun.(расстояние)) = it is easy for me to commute to work (note: here ‘commute’ is a verb.) / commuting to work is easy from there (note: here ‘commuting’ is a gerund.)
14. to work = to the place where I work / to the office (if Melanie works in an office!.


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