Answer — Exercise 1
2 - About town·Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book
Question
Check any new words in bold in a dictionary. Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.
Answer
- large, expensive, often detached houses; good quality roads and street lights, trees and large gardens, high walls and security, big fences; guard dogs; expensive cars; high-end designer boutiques; posh restaurants and cafés
- large, expensive, often old buildings such as palaces and mansions; public buildings such as town halls, 5-star hotels, libraries, cathedrals, etc. which are big and impressive and old and dominate their surroundings
- perhaps knock it down, repaint, renovate or redecorate it, cover it up
- many city centres or financial districts, e.g. New York or Chicago
- They might protect it because it is of interest to locals and tourists and may be under threat from developers; they might also renovate it and maybe charge people to enter it, in order to generate funds for its future care.
- an affluent area
- houses where people live; lots of families and not too much nightlife; maybe some good schools, nurseries, a few local shops and restaurants
- No, because it is unattractive and may have a lot of crime and social problems; they might get mugged or robbed in the street; they might have something stolen or get into some other kind of trouble.
- They might knock it down or improve it by renovating and investing money in it.
- an ordinary, dull, boring building
- It is a fashionable area so it may have very new, modern bars, cafés and clothes boutiques, as well as lots of art galleries, second-hand or vintage shops, music venues, foreign restaurants, pop-up spaces, street art and street markets. The people there are often young and fashionable (artists, musicians, students, designers, people from the fashion, film or music industry).
- It is improving and becoming more fashionable and, probably, more expensive to live in and buy houses in; crime starts to drop, and new shops and bars and clubs, etc. open up.