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Neighbors
Neighbors

Verbs with "ing"

Date: Jul 01 2011

Grammar: Verbs with "-ing"

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Who lives near you? Your neighbors can be some very interesting people. The people who live on the same street often have many different jobs and backgrounds. You might find an older person living next door to you who can tell you about history or a family from another country living on your block.

But not everyone likes to know their neighbors. Some people just like to be left alone. Listen to Jason and Amy talk about the people who live around them.

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Amy

Amy

Jason

Jason

Amy:  I just moved into a new house recently, like six months ago, and we’re really starting to get to know our neighbors now that the weather is nice people are out and I really am into it. I love having neighbors and knowing my neighbors.

Jason:  So they’re nice people?

Amy:  Yeah, they’re super nice. We borrow things from them. We chat across our yards. It’s totally like in a movie.

Jason:  It can be a slippery slope though, interacting with the neighbors. Sometimes I’ll start saying “hi” to a neighbor and then not too long later they’re talking my ear off every day, every time they see me. I’m trying to hide from them so I don’t get stuck talking for an hour.

Amy:  But doesn’t it make you feel like you live in a friendly place and doesn’t it make you feel safer to know that your neighbors are there and they’re looking out for you?

Jason:  Yeah and I get gardening tips from them.

Amy:  Me too!

Jason:  I don’t know, sometimes they just live life at a different speed than I do because they’re retired.

Amy:  Right, right. Well, I’m worried that we might be those annoying neighbors who you don’t want to talk to.

Jason:  Oh, whoa…

Amy:  Not because I think I talk too much to my neighbors, but because we actually are constantly borrowing things because we’re younger than our neighbors and so we don’t have any of the household things that they have. Like, they have every gardening tool that you could ever need, so we’re constantly asking to borrow something.

Jason:  That’s handy, but yeah, if you find yourself telling stories about your dog, you might be that obnoxious neighbor, you never know.

Amy:  Oh, but the dog is so cute.

 

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Amy moved into a new house a few months ago and has been getting to know her neighbors. She says they’re very nice people and she talks to them often.

Jason says that sometimes if you start talking to your neighbors, they will begin to annoy you by talking to you too much. But Amy thinks that’s OK. It’s worth it to have a good community around you.

In fact, Amy is more worried about annoying her neighbors than being annoyed by them. She often asks to borrow things from them like gardening tools.

Do you know your neighbors? Who is the most interesting person in your neighborhood?

 

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lol80

lol80

Peru

Hola a todos! Hi everyone well i have neighbours and i can say that i have a good conversations with them they usually are nice people! i good having good neighbours.

05:12 PM Jul 02 2011 |

aniv

aniv

India

I am living in a street. there are a lots of neighbours around me.someone them  are very helpful and lovable, and I love my neighbours.

03:16 PM Jul 02 2011 |

aniv

aniv

India

I am living in a street. there are a lots of neighbours around me.someone them  are very helpful and lovable, and I love my neighbours.

03:16 PM Jul 02 2011 |

SANG891

SANG891

Hong Kong

I seldom meet my neightours because of my working hour.   

02:27 PM Jul 02 2011 |

miarenauly

Indonesia

well, i dont get close enough with my neighbors. some of them is very annoying and they really like to gossip, but not all of them. if i spend much time in home, i rather not going out and socialize with them.

12:22 PM Jul 02 2011 |

jennyhuynh_13

Viet Nam

i dont like my neighbor…she’s a gossipy person.Undecided

11:30 AM Jul 02 2011 |

roukya

roukya

Morocco

I have no contact wid my neighbors, i even don’t know any of them but a little nice girl. It seems that they don’t have time to talk. I just see their faces when iam back from work.

08:43 AM Jul 02 2011 |

zirve

zirve

Turkey

In my culture neighbors are too important.Also,they are more important than a lot of things.There is a Turkish proverb about neighbors.It says do not buy house,buy neighbor:))))

08:42 AM Jul 02 2011 |

Samuiyoru

Samuiyoru

Brazil

I do not know my neighbors very well, but I think I know what they look like, and I do sometimes see them leave the house occasionally. I do not think people in my street to recognize that there are other people trying to sleep – they are always having fights or playing music too loud, or anything like that. :| I’m also a person who is more worried about annoying my neighbors, so my house is eerily quiet.

07:14 AM Jul 02 2011 |

asharaf.m

asharaf.m

India

iam always like to be left alone

06:14 AM Jul 02 2011 |

C' est la vie

China

I never know about my  neighbors . even couldn’t remember their look . Embarassed

02:07 AM Jul 02 2011 |

andrea li

China

I don’t even konw who live next to me now,but noise often be heard from one of  my neighbors, and it is really makes my blood boil.I just want to say:stop that noise!

01:28 AM Jul 02 2011 |

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United States

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01:00 AM Jul 02 2011 |

youfocus

youfocus

Mexico

hello my fireds ,,,,, i also have a lot of neighbors, someone of them aren’t good but the most are excellent people with whom help us each other and also share weekend parties…. fun…..............

12:29 AM Jul 02 2011 |

X-hardi-X

X-hardi-X

Iraq

hi for all I live in the Kurdistan, i have alot of neighbors, Yes! They’re talk so much so long time when they see me, We are happy, we are all Muslims and our religion commands us to love our neighbors, neighbors, even if not on our religion or our idea, it is this, who commands us to (Allah) the Lord of the Worlds, Thank you for all

11:12 PM Jul 01 2011 |

beautysara

Morocco

hi how are every one i hav nieghbors are very nice they can best friens

09:46 PM Jul 01 2011 |

beautysara

Morocco

hi how are every one i hav nieghbors are very nice they can best friens

09:46 PM Jul 01 2011 |

Stitch

Stitch

Taiwan

Good neighbors are great. They can be your best friends and help you out a lot. But when you get bad neighbors, they are like devils living next door!

07:30 PM Jul 01 2011 |

memovagon

memovagon

Mexico

 Is nice to share food with them, XD

07:28 PM Jul 01 2011 |

nonaeng

Egypt

I really don’t like my neighbors cause they do talk my ear off

07:23 PM Jul 01 2011 |

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