Your neighborhood is the streets and places near your home. A building is a house, a school, a store or an office, with walls, doors and windows.
Places in town
Try it: Liam: Do you like this part of Senfarren? Matilda: Yes. There's a school, a doctor's office and two cafes in this ___. Choose what Matilda says. (building / neighborhood / childhood) Answer: neighborhood — A school, a doctor's office and two cafes are in the streets near here, the neighborhood.
Word
Pronunciation
Example
neighborhood
Everybody knows everybody in our neighborhood.
building
Our school is in a new building.
Talking about the past
Back then and in those days both mean at that time in the past. Say the time first, then use them.
Try it: Liam: This map of Senfarren is from 1920. Matilda: Wow. There were only four streets ___. Choose what Matilda says. (yesterday / back then / this morning) Answer: back then — The map shows Senfarren in 1920, so it is back then.
Word
Pronunciation
Example
back then
I was a student in 2010. Back then, I didn't have a car.
in those days
My grandfather was young in 1970. In those days, he worked on a farm.