Part 1
Examiner
Did you have a bike when you were a child?
Candidate
Well yes, I have a bike when I was child. I have a white and black bike and a lot of time I use my bike when I'm going to school.
Examiner
Do you think bikes are popular in your country?
Candidate
Yeah, I think bikes are very popular in our country because nowadays a lot of people using bike.
Did you have a bike when you were a child?
Score: 58.0Suggestion: Improve grammar (use past tense consistently), shorten and make the answer more natural by starting with a clear topic sentence, then add one or two specific supporting details using linking words. Corrected tense, articles, and word order will raise clarity and coherence.
Example: Yes, I did. I had a white-and-black bike when I was a child, and I often rode it to school. Because my school was only a short distance away, cycling was quicker than walking and it became my main way to travel every day.
Do you think bikes are popular in your country?
Score: 62.0Suggestion: Use full sentences, correct verb forms, and add a specific reason or example. Begin with a clear opinion, then support it with a concrete reason and a linking word to make the response logical and natural.
Example: Yes, I think bikes are very popular in my country. For example, many people use bicycles for short trips and commuting because they are cheaper and avoid traffic, so cycling has become common in both cities and small towns.
× Well yes, I have a bike when I was child.
✓ Well yes, I had a bike when I was a child.
The sentence mixes present tense 'have' with the past time reference 'when I was a child'. Use past tense 'had' to match the time frame; also add the article 'a' before 'child'. Suggestion: keep verb tense consistent with time expressions (use past for past events).
× I have a white and black bike and a lot of time I use my bike when I'm going to school.
✓ I had a white-and-black bike, and I often used it to go to school.
This sentence has multiple issues: tense mismatch (present 'have' with past context), awkward adjective coordination ('white and black' should be hyphenated as a compound adjective), and incorrect adverb placement ('a lot of time I use' is ungrammatical). Recast to past tense 'had' and 'used', use 'often' for frequency, use 'it' as the pronoun for the bike, and 'to go to school' as the correct infinitive phrase. Suggestion: form compound adjectives with a hyphen and place frequency adverbs before the main verb.
× Yeah, I think bikes are very popular in our country because nowadays a lot of people using bike.
✓ Yeah, I think bikes are very popular in our country because nowadays a lot of people use bikes.
The clause 'a lot of people using bike' is incorrect because it lacks an auxiliary verb and has number agreement issues. Use the simple present 'use' for habitual actions and plural 'bikes' to match 'people'. Also keep 'nowadays' with present tense. Suggestion: use subject-verb agreement and correct plural nouns for countable items.