Countryside
Writing about the landscape
From my room I look out over the surrounding countryside. It’s very different from the familiar
landscape I see from the windows at home. At home it’s a gentle landscape1 with open fields2.
Here it’s a bleak landscape with rocky mountains in the distance.
1 a landscape with nothing extreme or threatening about it
2 fields uninterrupted by woods or houses
Yesterday we followed a path down to the lake. As we turned a corner, we caught a glimpse
of3 a kingfisher standing in the water. John tried to take a picture4 of it but it caught sight of us
and flew off. A little further on we rounded a bend5 and St John’s Abbey came into view. The Abbey fell into ruin6 about three hundred years ago. Although it lies in ruins, it is well worth seeing as it stands in a dramatic setting on a steep slope beside a fast-flowing river with
mountains towering7 above it.
3 saw for a moment
4 take a photo
5 turned a corner
6 became a ruin
7 mountains rising dramatically
The cottage is in some wonderful unspoilt countryside8 on the edge of a dense forest9.
Unfortunately the trees block the view of the snow-covered mountains. It has a little garden
with a stream at the end of it. The stream winds10 through the forest. They wanted to build a timber
factory here but the local people said that it would destroy the countryside and, fortunately, their
campaign to protect the environment succeeded.
8 countryside that has not been changed by industry or modern buildings
9 thick forest
10 makes lots of bends, doesn’t flow in a straight line
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