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Unit 6 • Lesson A: Nice places

Vocabulary
Places in cities and neighborhoods
apartment building (n)
city (n)
fast-food place (n)
mall (n)
movie theater (n)
museum (n)
outdoor café (n)
park (n)
post office (n)
stadium (n)
store (n)
subway station (n)
supermarket (n)
swimming pool (n)

Quantity expressions
a couple of
a lot of
no (There's no mall.)
some

Adjectives
beautiful
boring
convenient
expensive
little
small

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Other words
need (v)

Grammar
There's and There are
You can use There's (= There is) and There are to say what is in a place.

Use There's / There is + a singular noun (= 1 thing):

There's a park in my neighborhood.

Use There are + a plural noun (= 2 or more things):

There are three restaurants.

Quantifiers
A / an both mean one. Use a / an with singular nouns:

There's a park. (The first letter of park is not a, e, i, o, or u.)

There's an outdoor café. (The first letter of outdoor café is o.)

There's one park and there's one outdoor café.

Quantifiers give information about numbers:

• a lot of means many

• a couple of means two or three – a small number

• some means more than two

• no means not any

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Use a lot of, a couple of and some with plural nouns:

There are a lot of restaurants.

There are some outdoor cafés.

There are a couple of movie theaters.

Use no with singular or plural nouns:

There's no mall.

There are no clubs.

Adjectives before nouns

You can use adjectives to describe your neighborhood.

Adjectives usually come before nouns:

There's a small park in my neighborhood.

There are some expensive stores.

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