English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'area'
Learning English Vocabulary
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🗓️ 13 November 2024
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Summary
An area can be a large geographic place, or a smaller place like a room. There are some words that we often use together. These are called collocations. Learn some of the verbs that we often use with the noun 'area' with Georgie.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to BBC LearningEnglish.com. |
| 0:04.6 | What kind of area do you live in? |
| 0:08.0 | An area can be a large geographic place or a smaller place, like a room. |
| 0:14.0 | You can live in an area, but if you don't like it, you can move to a new area, |
| 0:20.0 | which means you change the location of where you live. |
| 0:23.0 | I live in an urban area, but when I'm older, I think I'll move to a rural area. If you move to a new |
| 0:30.0 | area, that means you leave or move away from the current area. There was a horrible smell of |
| 0:36.9 | burning in the kitchen, so I decided to leave the |
| 0:39.8 | area. Covering an area means extending over a specific location. This can be about things like |
| 0:47.4 | internet or searching for things over an area. The search and rescue team covered an area of 50 |
| 0:54.0 | kilometres in just two days. So, you can cover an area. The search and rescue team covered an area of 50 kilometres in just two days. So, |
| 0:57.4 | you can cover an area, live in an area, move to an area, move away from or leave an area. Which |
| 1:05.5 | area are you moving to next? BBC Learning English. |
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