- Audio Lessons 701 - 750
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Bad Jobs
Views #750 | High-Intermediate 6 -
Cool Jobs
Views #749 | High-Intermediate 6 -
Snow Camping
Views #748 | High-Intermediate 6 -
Oregon People
Views #747 | High-Intermediate 6 -
Oregon Beauty
Views #746 | High-Intermediate 6 -
Big Break
Views #745 | High-Intermediate 6 -
The Extra
Views #744 | High-Intermediate 6 -
An Actor's Routine
Views #743 | Intermediate 6 -
Remedies
Views #742 | Low-Intermediate 4 -
Staying Healthy
Views #740 | Low-Intermediate 4 -
Good Qualities
Views #739 | Intermediate 5 -
What are you like?
Views #738 | Intermediate 5 -
Who do you admire?
Views #737 | High-Intermediate 6 -
Travel Options
Views #736 | Low-Intermediate 4 -
Wish List
Views #735 | Low-Intermediate 4 -
Great Places
Views #734 | Low-Intermediate 4 -
Grandfather
Views #733 | Intermediate 5 -
The Taxi Ride
Views #732 | Intermediate 5 -
The Taxi Ride
Views #731 | Intermediate 5 -
Teachers
Views #729 | Intermediate 5 -
Conrad's English House
Views #728 | Low-Intermediate 4 -
Winter in Sweden
Views #727 | Intermediate 5 -
Winter Food for Skiing
Views #726 | Intermediate 5 -
Canadian Winter
Views #725 | Low-Intermediate 4 -
Kitchen Safety
Views #724 | Intermediate 5 -
How to be a Chef
Views #723 | Intermediate 5 -
A Chef's Life
Views #722 | Intermediate 5 -
Best City
Views #720 | Intermediate 5 -
Sydney, Australia
Views #719 | Intermediate 5 -
Sushi Ways and Wasabi
Views #718 | Intermediate 5 -
Sushi Selections
Views #717 | Intermediate 5 -
Sushi Lesson
Views #716 | Intermediate 5 -
Ideal Day in Montreal
Views #715 | Intermediate 5 -
Montreal Hot Spots
Views #714 | Intermediate 5 -
Summer in Montreal
Views #713 | Intermediate 5 -
Football in England
Views #712 | Intermediate 5 -
Gadgets
Views #711 | Intermediate 5 -
Cars of the Future
Views #710 | High-Intermediate 6 -
Rocky Recovers
Views #709 | Low-Intermediate 4 -
Rocky Gets Hurt
Views #708 | Low-Intermediate 4 -
Rocky Gets a Home
Views #707 | Low-Intermediate 4 -
Chaz the Cat
Views #706 | Low-Intermediate 4 -
Food in England
Views #705 | Intermediate 5 -
Neighbors
Views #704 | Intermediate 5 -
Hospital Routine
Views #703 | Intermediate 5 -
Hospital Food
Views #702 | Low-Intermediate 4 -
Emergency
Views #701 | High-Intermediate 6
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Montreal Hot Spots
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Lisa
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Adrienne
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Lisa: Montreal in the summer is beautiful temperature. It's about 25 to 32 degrees. Not very humid. The days are warm. The nights are cooler and it is a wonderful place. You can go to Old Montreal which is very European. You can go to downtown Montreal, tons of shopping. You can go to the canals where you can go whitewater rafting if you want, all in the city of Montreal. With the distance, because Montreal is quite a small city, you can walk, or it's a fifteen, twenty minute car ride wherever you want to go.
Adrienne: Oh, that sounds cool. What about nighttime? What is there to do at night in Montreal?
Lisa: The nightlife in Montreal is sometimes even better than the day life. Montreal, because of the French and English influences, there are different areas where you can go and get different aspects of Montreal culture, so during the evening in old Montreal it is filled with Jazz clubs or very Quebec, French folk songs and folk performances. Cafe life in Montreal is very, very important, so you can sit outside in cafe's as well as there are many bars. Huge party scene. Great DJ's. Then you can also go to Cresent Street, which is a popular street with beautiful bars. The famous auto racer, Jacques Villeneuve has a bar there, and that's really where a lot of the, a lot of the tourists as well as well as people visiting from Hollywood, a lot of the stars hang out around Cresent Street. Also, the restaurants in Montreal are fabulous because Montreal is so diverse culturally, you have great greek food, great Jewish food, great Italian food, great Chinese food, great french food of course.
even better
The nightlife in Montreal is sometimes even better than the day life.
When something is 'even better,' it means that it is better than something else or better than you expected it to be.
Notice the following:
- His new book is even better than the last one.
- The soup tasted even better the day after it was cooked.
different aspects
There are different areas where you can go and get different aspects of Montreal culture.
'Different aspects' means the different features or different parts of something.
Notice the following:
- Everyone has different aspects to their life, and everyone enjoys different things.
- There are different aspects to teaching. You have to educate as well as discipline the children.
folk performances
Montreal is filled with Jazz clubs or very Quebec, French folk songs and folk performances.
'Folk performances' are traditional plays or songs that are put on by the inhabitants of that country or region.
Notice the following:
- When I go on holiday, I like to to go to some traditional folk performances from that region.
- I take part in folk performances at the weekend.
huge party scene
You can sit outside in cafes as well and there are many bars, so there's a huge party scene.
'Huge party scene' refers to the lively nightlife of an area.
Notice the following:
- When I was at university there was a huge party scene.
- I hope there is not a huge party scene, as he needs to study.
diverse, culturally
The restaurants in Montreal are fabulous because Montreal is so diverse, culturally.
When something is 'diverse, culturally,' it means that it has lots of different aspects from different countries.
Notice the following:
- The area was very diverse, culturally.
- It is an international school, so it is very diverse, culturally.
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