55 practice to become a good singer and guitarist, and he spent several years
playing to very small audiences before he became successful. I also like the fact
that he writes his own music. I admire people who have worked hard to get
where they are.
Note: The best band 7 vocabulary items and collocations have been
underlined. 'Gig' is an informal word for concert or performance, but it is fine
to use it in this context.
Describing a garden Describe a beautiful garden that you like. You should say - where it is - what you can see there - what people do there and explain why you like it. The garden I'm going to describe is famous because it belonged to the French
painter Claude Monet. It's in a place called Giverny, which is in northern
France, about an hour away from Paris in the province of Normandy. There are
actually two gardens at the Monet house in Giverny: a flower garden, and a
Japanese inspired water garden. Apparently, Monet designed the gardens
himself; he even had the pond and the famous Japanese bridge made. After
creating the gardens, Monet painted some of the most well-known paintings in
the world, such as those of the waterlilies below the bridge on his pond.
Thousands of people visit the gardens at Giverny to see the magnificent scenes
that inspired Monet's paintings. Visitors can walk around the gardens and take
pictures, which is what I did when I went there. I like Monet's gardens because
they are such beautiful creations, and it's amazing to see the 'real thing' having
seen the famous paintings so many times.
