📙 Part 2: Describe a time when you moved to a new home or school

This episode's vocabulary

Instance (noun) - a particular situation, event, or fact, especially an example of something that happens generally.

Move house - to leave your home in order to live in a new one.

Move (noun) - an act of moving.

In succession - happening one after another.

Accommodation (noun) - a place to live, work, stay, etc. in.

To demolish (verb) - to completely destroy a building, especially in order to use the land for something else.

On your toes - someone or something that keeps you on your toes forces you to continue directing all your attention and energy to what you are doing.

Suburbs (plural noun) - the outer area of a town, rather than the shopping and business centre in the middle.

Neighborhood (noun) - the area of a town that surrounds someone's home, or the people who live in this area.

Regardless of sth (phrase) - without being influenced by any other events or conditions.

To boot - in addition.

To lay sth out (phrasal verb) - to arrange something on a flat surface.

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Questions and Answers

M: Rory is going to describe a time when he moved to a new home or school. You move to a new school. He's going to say when he moved, where he moved, why he moved and how he felt about it. Rory, are you all ready?

R: Yes.

M: Excellent. Bring it on,

R: It's actually quite difficult to pick a specific instance, since I've moved home quite often over the past 10 years, actually. But if I had to choose one time, I suppose it would be when I moved to my last apartment in Moscow in the autumn of 2020. This was actually the second move I'd done in quite quick succession. Because I left my old company's accommodation into the new one, when I discovered it was going to be demolished within only a few months. So it was like very quickly move to this new place, and then have to move to a new place even faster than the old. But that kept me on my toes, so I'm not overly worried about it. Anyway, it didn't take long for the accommodation manager to find this new place. It was and still is, in one of the suburbs of the north of the city. It's a place called Strogino. It was actually quite far from the old place, but thanks to the metro system and the good roads, it didn't actually take that long to move. And it doesn't actually take that long to go between this place, and the places that I used to frequent before I moved. Despite that, at first, I wasn't too keen on it, because I thought I would have to wake up ridiculously early to get to work. But it turned out it was only an extra 30 minutes away. And this was. well, was easy to compensate for. Well, like I said, the roads, or the infrastructure, in general is actually quite good in Moscow in this area, so it's okay. It also turned out to be quite a wonderful neighborhood, regardless of the season. Though, I think I always prefer to in summer because it was nicer to go for walks in the forest. Or actually, there was a lake nearby as well. And I even managed to get the biggest room in the apartment to boot. It wasn't originally a bedroom. It was originally a living room, but because of the way that apartments are laid out and rented in Moscow, they turned the living room into a bedroom. So I got this massive room and I was very pleased about that.

M: Do you think you're gonna move again soon?

R: I hope no, I've done a lot of moving to be honest. And I'm kind of tired of it.

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