Introduction
This
post is about the use of describing
places
in general, and more specifically describing
your own neighbourhood.
SCENARIO
Imagine
you are talking to a relative, a friend or a work colleague about the
place where you come from. The other person wants to knows a little
more about where you live and says: “what
is your neighbourhood like?”
In Spanish, the
other person could choose to be less formal and say:
¿Cómo
es tu barrio?*
Alternatively, he/
she could choose to be more formal and say:
¿Cómo
es su barrio?*
OUR
TIP
Answering
that question should be quite straightforward. You should NOT
need to consider more formal or less
formal replies. Just say something about your neighbourhood
Perhaps you want to mention:
Perhaps you want to mention:
- Its name.
- Its location.
- Its size (big/ small/ its population).
- Its history/ anything the town is known for.
- Any features (old church/ historic sites/ etc.)
- Whether it is clean/ dirty, noisy/ quiet, etc..
Here
are some examples of what you could say about your neighbourhood:
- El barrio de Triana es mi barrio (Triana is my neighbourhood).
- Triana es un barrio de Sevilla (Triana is a neighbourhood in Seville).
- Mi barrio es un barrio muy típico (my neighbourhood is a very typical neighbourhood).
- Mi barrio es un barrio muy popular (my neighbourhood is a very popular neighbourhood).
- Mi barrio tiene unos cincuenta mil habitantes (my neighbourhood has some 50,000 inhabitants).
- Mi barrio es muy antiguo (my neighbourhood is very old).
- Mi barrio es famoso por sus fiestas (my neighbourhood is famous for its 'fiestas').
- Mi barrio tiene una iglesia del siglo XIII (my neighbourhood has a thirteenth century church).
- Mi barrio es muy limpio (my neighbourhood is very clean).
- Mi barrio es muy tranquilo (my neighbourhood is very quiet).
- Mi barrio es muy alegre y bullicioso (literally: my neighbourhood is very 'happy and noisy'- my neighbourhood has a cheerful bustling/ bubbly/ lively atmosphere).
- En mi barrio hay un supermercado, un banco y una farmacia (there is a supermarket, a bank and a chemist in my neighbourhood).
*Notes
A similar question could be used in the slightly different scenario in which the subject of conversation is the town in which you live. See a post dealing describing your town.
Now
you should practise answering the question:
¿Cómo
es tu barrio?
No comments:
Post a Comment