Common Core Basic English Speaking Practice Part 3 of 8

part three are you ready let's do it decisions  and goals core spoken English speaking practice  

now here's the situation Edo and June are living  with a Homestay family in the suburbs do you know  

the suburbs outside of the city although they  get along with their host their host family  

they would like more privacy and Independence so  they're thinking they're thinking about moving  

to a downtown apartment they're thinking about  moving out going to a downtown apartment now what  

are the advantages of doing that advantages the  advantages of downtown are its central location  

and convenience the advantages of downtown are  its central location and conveniences say it

the benefits of downtown  are its central location and

conveniences I added an S there  didn't I convenience conveniences  

you can do that that's fine the merits  of downtown are its central location and

convenience the pros are location and

convenience those are the pros the  convenience of downtown can be a

blessing be a blessing all right  the convenience of downtown can be a

bonus the a strong point is the  central location yeah that's a strong  

point a strong point is the central  location a good thing is the central

location downtown central  location and convenience are

advantageous yes they're advantageous  the central location and convenience are

advantageous downtown's central  location convenience are

beneficial yes they are they're very

beneficial downtown central  location and convenience are

favorable yeah it's

favorable on the plus side downtown is Central and

convenient on the plus side on the positive side

downtown is Central inconvenient all right  

how about this one on the upside  downtown is Central and [Music]

convenient the central location  and convenience speak for

downtown speak for it speaks for downtown  it it it emphasizes its good point  

we can benefit from the convenient

location we can benefit from it  we can profit from the convenient

location the convenient location could  work in our favor yeah it could work in our

favor all right how about some disadvantages  

here's some the disadvantages of downtown  are the expensive rents and the noise at

night okay so that's the disadvantages of  downtown the drawbacks the disadvantages  

the drawbacks of downtown are the  expensive rents and the noise at

night the liabilities of downtown are  the expensive rents and the noise at

night the cons are the  expensive rents and the noise at

night the noise at night can be a

curse that's the opposite of can be  a blessing it can be a blessing or  

it can be a curse the noise at night be  a curse a weak point is the expensive

rents a bad thing is the expensive

rents on the minus side the rents downtown  are more expensive and there's more noise at

night on the negative side the rents downtown  are more expensive and there's more noise at

night on the downside the rents downtown  are more expensive and there's more noise at

night all right last one the expensive rents  and the noise at night speak against downtown

yeah it speaks against downtown those  expensive rents and the noise maybe we  

should just stay here with our host  family we have no privacy but it's  

better than those expensive rents and that  noise wouldn't you agree all right boom good  

workout keep moving forward one step at a  time and I will see you in the next step