‫As with family home town and where you come from is a very common topic to come up in the test, I almost
‫guarantee that in the speaking or writing sections you will see something about this and I will say
‫110 percent.
‫There will be some kind of question in the speaking test on your hometown town.
‫So let's take a look at some vocabulary that we can use.
‫Neighborhood amenities.
‫Peaceful.
‫Bustling suburbs.
‫Community.
‫Rural and sprawling, so these are all words that you can use to describe or discuss your home town.
‫Let's move on to neighborhood.
‫Now, a neighborhood is a very small section of a community, for example, there may be many neighborhoods
‫in your town or village or city.
‫It's a small area of a place, could often be a road.
‫Let's take a look.
‫In my neighborhood, people are usually very friendly.
‫Many central neighborhoods in the city are growing in population.
‫OK, let's take a look at the next example, which is amenities, so amenities are things that are close
‫by to your home town that you can go to or use or visit.
‫For example, an amenity could be a post office or a bank or a swimming pool at different kinds of facilities
‫that have a use and a purpose.
‫Compared to the countryside, cities often have more amenities and things to do.
‫The village added several amenities, such as a school and a small post office.
‫Peaceful, it's quite easy, easily understood piece of vocabulary, peaceful, quiet, relaxing.
‫I much prefer living somewhere quiet and peaceful, like my hometown.
‫The village where I am from is very peaceful.
‫And now we have Boston, which in some respects is the opposite of peaceful, bustling, is often used
‫to describe a very busy, lively place, quite often a city, for example.
‫Let's see some examples.
‫On my first trip to the city, I was surprised by how bustling and busy it all was.
‫I come from a bustling town located in the north of my country.
‫OK, bustling, busy, active, lively.
‫And next up is suburbs, suburbs are located just outside of city centers, they're often very popular
‫places to live because they're not so bustling and chaotic and busy, but they have easier access into
‫the city center where often people work.
‫Let's see the examples.
‫People living in suburbs increased over a three year period to 800000 residents.
‫An example of Eilts writing sentence there.
‫I've highlighted in blue the noun residents and we can use this word to describe people who are living
‫in an area.
‫For example, the residents of London are usually very busy.
‫OK, and the next example, it's true that many people like to live in the suburbs because it's easier
‫to get to work so that we have suburbs, an area located just outside the city center.
‫Next up, we have community community is a similar word to neighborhood in some respects, but a community
‫is a social group of people who share a common interest.
‫It could be where they live, their hometown, or it could be something else, for example, a music
‫community.
‫But in this example, we'll talk about hometown.
‫The local community were shocked by the recent events in the nearby town.
‫Local community is a collocation.
‫We used to talk about the area where people live.
‫There is a strong community feel when you walk around my hometown again, another native sounding phrase,
‫community feel it is often used to talk about somewhere that feels friendly and welcoming, a great
‫or strong community feel.
‫So there are some examples of community in relation to hometown.
‫Next up, we have rural.
‫Rural is used to describe places that's a very remote and far away from pretty much anything.
‫For example, if your home town is 300 kilometers from the nearest city, it might be considered a rural
‫area.
‫In my opinion, people living in rural villages will find getting to school can be more difficult.
‫A rural village has less amenities, but a more natural and wild environment.
‫And here we have sprawling, a sprawling is used to describe cities that the area of the cities goes
‫on for a very long way.
‫For example, a lot of Asian cities are spread across huge distances.
‫They are sprawling cities.
‫Let's take a look at some examples.
‫London really is a sprawling city with many different areas to visit, my hometown in Brazil is a sprawling
‫city that reaches all the way to the coast, so sprawling.
‫If you live in a city that reaches great distances, you could call it a sprawling city.
‫Just to review, here is your eight pieces of vocabulary for hometown.
‫Try and use them in your own writing and speaking.