#55 Today’s expression
That’s where Monet lived for 43 years.
CONVERSATION
M: So our plan is to go to Giverny, right?
-plan : an intention or decision about what one is going to do.
W: Yes. That’s where Monet lived for 43 years. We can look around his house, garden, and the museum.
-Monet : /French mɔnɛ/ noun. 1. Claude (klod). 1840–1926, French landscape painter; the leading exponent of impressionism.
-look around : to walk around a room, building, or place and see what is there
-garden : a piece of ground, often near a house, used for growing flowers, fruit, or vegetables.
-museum : a building in which objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest are stored and exhibited.
M: The map says it’s 4 kilometers east of Vernon. At which station can we take a train to get there?
-map : a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.
-east : the direction toward the point of the horizon where the sun rises at the equinoxes, on the right-hand side of a person facing north, or the point on the horizon itself.
-which : used referring to something previously mentioned when introducing a clause giving further information.
-train : a series of railroad cars moved as a unit by a locomotive or by integral motors.
W: Saint-Lazare Station. Are you ready to go?
-station : a regular stopping place on a public transportation route, especially one on a railroad line with a platform and often one or more buildings. Station
M: Yes, let’s go. Oh, wait. Do you have the metro tickets?
-metro : a subway system in a city, especially Paris.
-ticket : a piece of paper or small card that gives the holder a certain right, especially to enter a place, travel by public transport, or participate in an event.
W: Yes, in my bag.
-bag : a container made of flexible material with an opening at the top, used for carrying things.
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