84. Where is the Best Place to Live?: the Most ‘Liveable’ City 2021 (English Vocabulary Lesson)
Where is the best place to live in the world? Which city has the best living conditions? And how can we determine what the “best” really means? Fortunately for us, The Global Liveability Index 2021 was recently released which answers many of these questions, and I will discuss the results on this episode of Thinking in English! TRANSCRIPT - https://thinkinginenglish.blog/2021/06/09/84-where-is-the-best-place-to-live-the-most-liveable-city-2021-english-vocabulary-lesson/ CONTACT US!! INSTAGRAM - thinkinginenglishpodcast (https://www.instagram.com/thinkinginenglishpodcast/) Twitter - @thinkenglishpod Blog - thinkinginenglish.blog Gmail - thinkinginenglishpod@gmail.com Vocabulary List Quality (n) - a characteristic or feature of someone or something I don't think he has the right qualities to be a teacher Infrastructure (n) - the basic systems and services, such as transport and power supplies, that a country or organization uses in order to work effectively The war has badly damaged the country’s infrastructure To cope (v) - to deal successfully with a difficult situation It must be really hard to cope with three young children and a job Generous (adj) - more or larger than usual or expected My boss gave me a generous pay increase Domestically (adv) - inside a particular country rather than in other countries The movie made $76 million domestically but only $1.3 million abroad To plummet (v) - to fall very quickly and suddenly House prices have plummeted in recent months Civil (adj) - not military or religious, or relating to the ordinary people of a country Helicopters are mainly used for military rather than civil use To favour (v) - to support or prefer one particular possibility I generally favour travelling by night, when the roads are quiet --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinking-english/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices