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Speakout Intermediate Video Podcast Unit 8 Communities

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Hi, I live in a block of flats and I know a few of my neighbours

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really well. We like similar things so we socialise quite a lot.

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Today, I’m going to ask people about their neighbours.

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How well do you know your neighbours?

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I know my neighbours quite well, I moved in a year ago and I live in the middle flat and
it’s a house

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that is broken into three flats. The guys upstairs moved in a year ago as well and the

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guys downstairs have been there for a few years, but we all

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have a communal garden, so we get to use that space together.

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 It varies enormously, one or two really quite well, some very close, I don’t even know
what they

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look like. And that is very typical of this area, I live just round the corner from here, inner
city urban London.

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Virtually not at all. I live in a flat and I moved into the flat about six months ago.

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Yeh, I know them quite well but some I get on with and some

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I don’t. Some I want to get on with and some I don’t want to get on with.

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Not at all. I’ve never even seen them. No, I don’t know them at all, quite honestly.

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What makes a good neighbour?

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A good neighbour is someone that you can trust,

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someone you could leave your key with that you could ask to water your plants or feed
your cat.

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What makes a good neighbour is someone who looks out for you and you look out for
them as well.
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Knowing when to interfere and not to interfere,

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being friendly at the right times but not being intrusive.

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A good neighbour would be someone who is considerate

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who always keeps in mind that they do have neighbours,

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whether it be noise or trash or keeping up their property, just making it a nice place

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that people would want to come home to.

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Someone who you can trust and doesn’t cause you any grief.

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What about a bad neighbour?

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A bad neighbour is someone that forgets that you exist as well, and has loud music until
six am.

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Not respecting privacy, intruding, not understanding what your neighbour wants
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and not just in that sense but in the sense of not participating , not doing things

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when a neighbour needs help.

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Someone who is not considerate, who whether it’s a lot of noise, or a lot of trash,

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doesn’t upkeep their property, who’s not really friendly.

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Tell me about the best or worst neighbour you’ve ever had?

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She was a lady, who lived above me, and she was very quiet, very nice and

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she would often times come and check on me,

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see if I’m ok. So we’d kind of chit chat, I got to know her pretty well, which was pretty
nice.

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The worst neighbour I’ve ever had and lived next door to me

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in the last house I was in, he was just very noisy, all the time day and night,
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you were constantly, constantly aware of him.

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One night, about eight o’clock, I heard a noise

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outside and I opened the windows, and a loud voice said get down, crouch down,

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it was clearly a policeman. And I had to stay crouched down and at my garden

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at the back three policeman shot in and shot over the wall and it turned out

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that I was living next to number two in the main criminal gang in north London.

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And they were arrested and taken away.