Bike— Part 1 Report

PracticePart12026-09-29 20:30:37

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Part 1

Examiner

Did you have a bike when you were a child?

Candidate

Actually, yes, I did have a bike when I was a child. I got it from my older sister when I was 12. I was riding it almost every day and practicing. First days I was practicing with my dad, but I learned everything so quickly, so after the first day I started to drive it by.

Examiner

Do you think bikes are popular in your country?

Candidate

Honestly, I do think that a bicycles are really popular in my country. There is a lot of places such as parks, streets and fields where everyone can bicycle. Moreover, every summer I see people of luggages riding bikes on the roads and pedestrians.

Evaluation

Overall

Overall: 5.0Fluency & Coherence: 5.5Pronunciation: 5.0Grammar: 5.0Lexical Resource: 5.0

Part 1

Did you have a bike when you were a child?

Score: 72.0

Suggestion: Ответ в целом прямой и достаточно подробный, но есть несколько неестественных выражений и ошибок в грамматике. Вместо “First days” нужно сказать “During the first few days”, а “drive a bike” обычно заменяется на “ride a bike”. Фраза “started to drive it by” неверна; используйте “started riding it on my own”. Также избегайте повторения “practicing” и “learned everything so quickly”: можно кратко описать, где вы катались или как быстро научились.

Example: Yes, I did. I got my first bike from my older sister when I was twelve. During the first few days, my dad helped me practise, but I learned quite quickly and soon started riding it on my own. After that, I rode it almost every day around my neighbourhood.

Do you think bikes are popular in your country?

Score: 58.0

Suggestion: Ответ выражает чёткое мнение и содержит попытку привести причины и примеры, однако ошибки заметно влияют на естественность речи. Нужно сказать “bicycles are” или, естественнее, “bikes are”, а “There is a lot of places” заменить на “There are many places”. Глагол “bicycle” здесь звучит неестественно; лучше использовать “cycle” или “ride bikes”. Фраза “people of luggages” непонятна, а “on the roads and pedestrians” грамматически и логически некорректна. Уточните, кто именно катается и где, например: “I often see people riding bikes along the roads and through parks.”

Example: Yes, I think bikes are quite popular in my country. There are many places, such as parks, cycle paths and quiet streets, where people can ride them safely. In summer, I often see families and tourists cycling around the city. Bikes are especially popular because they are inexpensive and environmentally friendly.

Grammar

1: Singular and plural issue

× Honestly, I do think that a bicycles are really popular in my country.

✓ Honestly, I do think that bicycles are really popular in my country.

Bicycles is a plural countable noun, so it cannot be used with the singular article a. Use bicycles without an article when speaking about bicycles in general.

22: Article errors

× Honestly, I do think that a bicycles are really popular in my country.

✓ Honestly, I do think that bicycles are really popular in my country.

The article a is used before a singular countable noun, not before a plural noun. Because bicycles refers to bicycles in general, no article is needed.

3: There be issue

× There is a lot of places such as parks, streets and fields where everyone can bicycle.

✓ There are a lot of places such as parks, streets and fields where everyone can bicycle.

In a there-be construction, the verb agrees with the noun that follows it. Places is plural, so use are instead of is.

27: Subject-verb agreement errors

× There is a lot of places such as parks, streets and fields where everyone can bicycle.

✓ There are a lot of places such as parks, streets and fields where everyone can bicycle.

The plural subject places requires the plural verb are. The singular verb is does not agree with places.

16: Incorrect conjunction use

× First days I was practicing with my dad, but I learned everything so quickly, so after the first day I started to drive it by.

✓ At first, I practiced with my dad, but I learned everything so quickly that after the first day I started to ride it on my own.

The original sentence uses but and so in a confusing way. The structure so quickly that correctly shows the result of learning quickly. Also, ride is the appropriate verb for using a bicycle.

5: Past tense issue

× First days I was practicing with my dad, but I learned everything so quickly, so after the first day I started to drive it by.

✓ At first, I practiced with my dad, but I learned everything so quickly that after the first day I started to ride it on my own.

The answer describes completed activities in the past. Use the simple past practiced for a finished past activity. The phrase at first is also a natural way to introduce the beginning of the experience.

11: Incorrect use of prepositions

× First days I was practicing with my dad, but I learned everything so quickly, so after the first day I started to drive it by.

✓ At first, I practiced with my dad, but I learned everything so quickly that after the first day I started to ride it on my own.

By does not express the meaning of independently in this sentence. Use the prepositional phrase on my own to mean without help from another person.

11: Incorrect use of prepositions

× Moreover, every summer I see people of luggages riding bikes on the roads and pedestrians.

✓ Moreover, every summer I see people with luggage riding bikes on the roads alongside pedestrians.

Use with, not of, to describe people carrying or having luggage. Luggage is an uncountable noun, so it does not normally take the plural form luggages.

14: Incorrect use of quantifiers

× Moreover, every summer I see people of luggages riding bikes on the roads and pedestrians.

✓ Moreover, every summer I see people with luggage riding bikes on the roads alongside pedestrians.

Luggage is an uncountable noun. Do not use the plural form luggages; use luggage or a piece of luggage when referring to an individual item.

26: Sentence structure errors

× Moreover, every summer I see people of luggages riding bikes on the roads and pedestrians.

✓ Moreover, every summer I see people with luggage riding bikes on the roads alongside pedestrians.

The phrase and pedestrians incorrectly joins people riding bikes with pedestrians. Alongside pedestrians clearly shows that the cyclists and pedestrians are both present on the roads.

Vocabulary

Popular— Well-liked; Nonspecialist; Widespread; Mass
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