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Day 6 · Town & Everyday Life · A1 Level

My Town

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I live in a nice partpart (noun)A piece of something bigger.≈ Synonym: section🇺🇿UZ: qism, hudud🇷🇺RU: часть of Tashkent. Let me describedescribe (verb)To say what something or someone is like.≈ Synonym: explain🇺🇿UZ: tasvirlamoq🇷🇺RU: описывать my towntown (noun)A place with houses and shops, smaller than a city.🇺🇿UZ: shaharcha, shahar🇷🇺RU: город, городок. There is a big parkpark (noun)A green place with grass and trees for walking and playing.≈ Synonym: garden🇺🇿UZ: bog', park🇷🇺RU: парк nearnear (prep)Not far from something.≈ Synonym: close to🇺🇿UZ: yaqinida🇷🇺RU: рядом с my house. In the park, there are many treestree (noun)A tall plant with a trunk and branches.≈ Synonym: —🇺🇿UZ: daraxt🇷🇺RU: дерево and a small lakelake (noun)A big area of water with land around it.≈ Synonym: pond🇺🇿UZ: ko'l🇷🇺RU: озеро. There is also a playgroundplayground (noun)A place with games for children to play.≈ Synonym: play area🇺🇿UZ: bolalar maydonchasi🇷🇺RU: детская площадка for childrenchild (noun)Young people; the plural of child.≈ Synonym: kids🇺🇿UZ: bolalar🇷🇺RU: дети.

There are two schools in my areaarea (noun)A part of a town or place.≈ Synonym: district🇺🇿UZ: hudud, mavze🇷🇺RU: район: a primaryprimary (adj)First or early, for young children's school.≈ Synonym: elementary🇺🇿UZ: boshlang'ich🇷🇺RU: начальный school and a secondarysecondary (adj)Coming after primary school; for older students.≈ Synonym: —🇺🇿UZ: o'rta (maktab)🇷🇺RU: средний (школа) school. There is a hospital too, but it is farfar (adv)Not near; a long distance away.≈ Synonym: distant🇺🇿UZ: uzoq🇷🇺RU: далеко from my house.

In the town centercenter (noun)The middle part of a town or place.≈ Synonym: middle🇺🇿UZ: markaz🇷🇺RU: центр, there are many shopsshop (noun)A place where you buy things.≈ Synonym: store🇺🇿UZ: do'kon🇷🇺RU: магазин. There is a supermarketsupermarket (noun)A big shop that sells food and other things.≈ Synonym: grocery store🇺🇿UZ: supermarket🇷🇺RU: супермаркет, a bakerybakery (noun)A shop that sells bread and cakes.≈ Synonym: —🇺🇿UZ: novvoyxona🇷🇺RU: пекарня, and a bookshopbookshop (noun)A shop that sells books.≈ Synonym: bookstore🇺🇿UZ: kitob do'koni🇷🇺RU: книжный магазин. There is also a nice restaurantrestaurant (noun)A place where you pay to eat a meal.≈ Synonym: eatery🇺🇿UZ: restoran🇷🇺RU: ресторан where my family sometimes eats dinner.

There is a traintrain (noun)A long vehicle that moves on rails.🇺🇿UZ: poyezd🇷🇺RU: поезд stationstation (noun)A place where trains or buses stop.≈ Synonym: stop🇺🇿UZ: bekat, vokzal🇷🇺RU: станция near the town center. Every day, many people take the train to work. There is a bus stopstop (noun)A place where a bus waits for people.≈ Synonym: station🇺🇿UZ: bekat🇷🇺RU: остановка too, closeclose (adj)Near; not far away.≈ Synonym: near🇺🇿UZ: yaqin🇷🇺RU: близко to my house.

There isn't a cinemacinema (noun)A place where you watch films.≈ Synonym: movie theater🇺🇿UZ: kinoteatr🇷🇺RU: кинотеатр in my town, but there is a small librarylibrary (noun)A place with many books to read or borrow.≈ Synonym: —🇺🇿UZ: kutubxona🇷🇺RU: библиотека. I oftenoften (adv)Many times; frequently.≈ Synonym: frequently🇺🇿UZ: tez-tez🇷🇺RU: часто go there to read books and study English. My town is not big, but there are many usefuluseful (adj)Helpful.≈ Synonym: helpful🇺🇿UZ: foydali🇷🇺RU: полезный places. There are friendly people, quietquiet (adj)Calm, without much noise.≈ Synonym: calm🇺🇿UZ: tinch, sokin🇷🇺RU: тихий streets, and greengreen (adj)The color of grass and trees; full of plants.≈ Synonym: —🇺🇿UZ: yashil🇷🇺RU: зелёный parks. I am happyhappy (adj)Feeling good and pleased.≈ Synonym: glad🇺🇿UZ: baxtli, xursand🇷🇺RU: счастливый to live here.

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      1
      partnoun
      qism, hududчастьI like this part of the city.
      2
      describeverb
      tasvirlamoqописыватьCan you describe your house?
      3
      townnoun
      shaharcha, shaharгород, городокMy grandparents live in a small town.
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      parknoun
      bog', parkпаркWe walk in the park on Sundays.
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      nearpreposition
      yaqinidaрядом сI live near the school.
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      treenoun
      daraxtдеревоThere is a big tree in our yard.
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      lakenoun
      ko'lозероWe swim in the lake in summer.
      8
      playgroundnoun
      bolalar maydonchasiдетская площадкаThe children are on the playground.
      9
      childnoun
      bolalarдетиThe children are playing football.
      10
      areanoun
      hudud, mavzeрайонThere are many shops in my area.
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      primaryadjective
      boshlang'ichначальныйMy little brother goes to primary school.
      12
      secondaryadjective
      o'rta (maktab)средний (школа)My sister is at secondary school.
      13
      faradverb
      uzoqдалекоThe airport is far from here.
      14
      centernoun
      markazцентрLet's meet in the city center.
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      shopnoun
      do'konмагазинThis shop sells fruit.
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      supermarketnoun
      supermarketсупермаркетI buy milk at the supermarket.
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      bakerynoun
      novvoyxonaпекарняThe bakery has fresh bread.
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      bookshopnoun
      kitob do'koniкнижный магазинI bought a dictionary at the bookshop.
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      restaurantnoun
      restoranресторанWe eat at a restaurant on birthdays.
      20
      trainnoun
      poyezdпоездWe go to Samarkand by train.
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      stationnoun
      bekat, vokzalстанцияThe bus station is near the market.
      22
      stopnoun
      bekatостановкаI wait at the bus stop.
      23
      closeadjective
      yaqinблизкоThe shop is close to my house.
      24
      cinemanoun
      kinoteatrкинотеатрLet's go to the cinema tonight.
      25
      librarynoun
      kutubxonaбиблиотекаI read books in the library.
      26
      oftenadverb
      tez-tezчастоI often drink green tea.
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      usefuladjective
      foydaliполезныйThis app is very useful.
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      quietadjective
      tinch, sokinтихийOur street is quiet at night.
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      greenadjective
      yashilзелёныйThe park is very green in spring.
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      happyadjective
      baxtli, xursandсчастливыйThe children are happy today.