How to Describe Places in English!

So I'm out here at the lake today.

I love coming to the lake.

It's very, very relaxing.

Although the lake is a little bit out of the way.

In English, when you describe something as being out of the way,

it means that it's not on your normal road or street.

It's not necessarily a place that you drive by all the time.

For me, if I want to go to the lake, I have to decide to drive to the lake.

It's a little bit out of the way.

In this English lesson,

I'll help you learn seven more ways to describe places and locations.

And we'll go to seven more places as we do it.

By the way, this is Lake Erie at the end of this video, I'll show you Lake Ontario.

If you look behind me, you'll see some wind turbines.

They love to build wind turbines in remote locations.

That's definitely how I would describe the place I am in right now.

There are hardly any houses.

There's a small farm there.

There's no one even driving on the road.

No one really lives around here.

So they like to build wind turbines in remote locations,

places far from the city, far from houses and far from people.

So let's say I was driving and I realized that my van was almost out of gas.

If I was on this street here and I asked someone if there's a gas

station nearby, they might say, Yeah, there's one just around the corner.

As I get to the end of this road, if I turn and show you,

it's a little bit far away.

But you can see there is a gas station just around the corner.

This is how we describe something that's just one street away and one turn away.

Often cities are designed with a grid pattern

and someone might have a nice park just around the corner

or a nice little convenience store just around the corner.

Or in this situation, a gas station just around the corner.

So I'm standing here on the main street of this town.

It's not too busy right now because it's early in the morning,

but I wanted to show you that there is a McDonald's across the street from me.

They put McDonald's on the main streets

of most towns because they want them to be easy to get to.

In English, when we describe a place or location