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Question
The people who live in cities often wish they could live in quiet towns. Do you like the place you live in?
Tell your partner two things you like and don't like about the place you live in.
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Solution
I love the place where I live in.
- Two things that I like about the place where I live in
- Peaceful surrounding
- Well-behaved neighbours
- Two things that I don’t like
- Metro station is not very close to my place.
- Astray dogs and cows make the colony roads dirty.
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