B1 – Intermediate
From apartments to tiny houses, noisy neighbors can be a terrible nuisance to deal with. Noisy neighbors can really be irritating at times, disturbing your sleep and regular activities. However, we too, are neighbors to other people and sometimes, we may not know we’re bothering others.
Read the article below to see if you fall into the category of nice or annoying and be able to discuss the questions that follow:
Discussion Questions:
- What are the most common neighbor complaints?
- Do you get on well with your neighbors?
- What kind of neighbor are you?
- Have you ever had problems with your neighbors? Explain.
- What is it that neighbors do that peeves you the most?
- Have you ever considered suing your neighbor? Why?
- Do you treat others as you’d like to be treated?
- How do you keep your neighbors from complaining?
7 replies on “11 Ways to Tell If You’re an Annoying Neighbor”
1) What are the most common neighbor complaints?
I think that probably that the neighbors are very noises and frequently scream and raise the voices
2) Do you get on well with your neighbors? Yes, I think so….less with one of them.
3) What kind of neighbor are you? The best neighbor…I never are in home
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1.What are the most common neighbor complaints?
The most common neighbor complaints are the music and the dog barking, I live in a flat and the walls between differntes flats are very close and sometimes you can heard your neighbours.
2.Do you get on well with your neighbors?
Yes, I get on well with my neighbors. For the moment I have not had any problem with the noise. I am very carefull and I don’t do noises when I know that can be anoyed for my neighbours.
3.What kind of neighbor are you?
I am a good neighbor. I try don’t do noise, because I would not like that my neighbour would do it.
4.Have you ever had problems with your neighbors? Explain.
Where I am living at this moment, I have not had any problems with neigbours, but on the other flat, my upstaris neighbour did partys with friends until 3 or 4 am, they would made noise, I couldn’t sleep and next day I had to go to work.
5.What is it that neighbors do that peeves you the most?
Currently where I live my neighbours are very quiet. At the weekend, one of them that live next to me, play music one hour at the morning (maybe 11 am) but it doesn’t bother me.
6.Have you ever considered suing your neighbor? Why?
No, I have been lucky with my neighbour. Sometimes they make noises until late, but it is only puntual moments not all the time.
7.Do you treat others as you’d like to be treated?
Yes, because If i don’t like that my neighbours make noise, I try don’t do it too.
8.How do you keep your neighbors from complaining?
I try don’t do noise for example late, that can disturb the neighbours.
Your efforts in answering all these questions are much appreciated! You’re right. It’s as simple as this – ‘don’t do to others what you don’t want them to do to you’.
Please check the slight change you can make in order to express this thought better:
Yes, because If i don’t like that my neighbours make noise, I try don’t do it too.
> Yes, because If i don’t like that my neighbours make (a lot of) noise, I try not to do it either.
Keep doing a good job!
What are the most common neighbor complaints?
Well, as I live in an apartments building, here the most common complaint is regarding noise. I don’t know why, but noise crosses every wall and we can hear everything in our neigbor’s houses.
Do you get on well with your neighbors?
Yes! Indeed, my building is so big and we are so much neighbors! But, I always try to be nice and help if any needs me as a neigbor.
What kind of neighbor are you?
I try to be nice, to not make noise at night because I know how much it bothers me.
Have you ever had problems with your neighbors? Explain.
I didn’t have a personnel problem, but my upstream neighbors are college students and they use to throw parties during the week apart from the ones they throw on weekends. One day, I heard another neighbor knocking their door, as they’ve been making noise the whole afternoon and it was 11pm. Also, the doorman came and we had a talk with them in order to decrease the noise.
What is it that neighbors do that peeves you the most?
Noise. I don’t like it. I know that I may make noise some days (always weekends) if I invite people to have dinner at home. Nevertheless, I always try to have these dinners during weekends. I hate when I am trying to sleep because I have to wake up very early in the morning and I cannot sleep because of my neighbor’s noise. That is what peeves me the most.
Have you ever considered suing your neighbor? Why?
No, never. I once considered to call the police because of their noise, but we talked and they got quiet. I think that is better to talk to them and try to fix the problems in a friendly way.
Do you treat others as you’d like to be treated?
I always try. I know sometimes it is difficult, but if I like people to treat me well I know they deserve the same treat by me.
How do you keep your neighbors from complaining?
I think I am a good neighbor. I always try to think about other people, what I don’t like from my neihbors and try to not doing it.
It’s good to know you’ve never had any serious troubles with your neighbors and what little problems you had with them, you’ve always settled in peaceful manner. Regarding your answers, just look at this one sentence and some better words you can use in them instead.
I didn’t have a personnel problem, but my upstream neighbors are college students and they use to throw parties during the week apart from the ones they throw on weekends.
> I have never had a personal problem with any of my neighbors before, but my upstairs neighbors are college students and they usually throw parties during the week apart from the ones they throw on weekends.
Good going!
What are the most common neighbor complaints?
Noise, barking dogs, parking lot.
Do you get on well with your neighbors?
Yes, I do 🙂
What kind of neighbor are you?
Very quiet one. Once they told me that they thought I wasn’t home!
Have you ever had problems with your neighbors? Explain.
No, I haven’t.
What is it that neighbors do that peeves you the most?
When they fight, sometimes we can clearly hear their words.
Have you ever considered suing your neighbor? Why?
No, never. It is much better to work things around.
Do you treat others as you’d like to be treated?
Yes, I do.
What are the most common neighbor complaint?
None.
How do you keep your neighbors from complaining?
Being nice 😉