Bike— Part 1 Report

Suggestion: Be grammatically accurate and concise. Begin with a clear topic sentence in past tense (e.g., “No, I didn’t have a bike.”). Avoid misused words (“biker” means a person who rides a bike) and unnecessary repetition. If you want to add a brief reason or a short detail, use one linking phrase (for example, “because” or “because my family couldn’t afford one”). Keep the whole answer to no more than 2–3 sentences.

Example: No, I didn’t have a bike when I was a child because my family couldn’t afford one. As a result, I usually walked to school or used public transport.

Suggestion: Organize your response with a clear topic sentence and use linking words to compare past and present. Avoid fillers (uh, umm) and repetition. Use specific details or examples to support your point (who used bikes, why they were popular, and how things have changed). Limit to 3–4 sentences and use simple linking phrases such as “in the past,” “however,” or “nowadays.”

Example: In the past, bicycles were very popular in my country because many people couldn’t afford cars and cities were smaller. However, nowadays fewer people use bikes since more families own motorbikes or cars and public transport has improved. For example, when I was a child almost every neighbour had a bicycle, but today I see more cars on the road.

× No, I don't have.

✓ No, I didn't.

The question asks about the past ('when you were a child'), so the student should use past tense. Using 'don't' (present) is incorrect. Replace with the past negative 'didn't'. Use contractions appropriately: 'No, I didn't.'

× I did not have a biker when I was a child.

✓ I did not have a bicycle when I was a child.

The word 'biker' means a person who rides a bike, not the bike itself. The intended meaning is possession of a bicycle. Replace 'biker' with the noun 'bicycle'. Also maintain past tense 'did not have' to match the time reference.

× Yeah, uh, it was really popular when I was a kid like it umm, everybody that time everybody was walking and mostly everybody was walking and by using the bicycle that time, now these days like a totally different, so that time was really famous bicycle.

✓ Yes, bicycles were really popular when I was a kid. At that time, many people walked, but many also used bicycles. These days it's totally different.

Multiple problems: tense consistency and awkward phrasing. Use past tense 'were' for popularity in the past. 'Everybody was walking' is repetitive and inaccurate; 'many people walked' is clearer. 'By using the bicycle' is ungrammatical; express as 'used bicycles'. 'Now these days like a totally different' mixes tenses and filler words; change to 'These days it's totally different.' The corrections fix tense agreement, remove repetition and fillers, and use appropriate noun forms.