Bike— Part 1 Report

Suggestion: Answer directly, then give one or two clear details. Reduce fillers such as “uh,” and avoid restarting phrases. Use the correct expressions “when I was a child,” “training wheels,” and “learned to ride.” Finish your final thought rather than leaving the sentence incomplete.

Example: Yes, I did. My father bought me a small bike for my twelfth birthday, and it had training wheels at first. I learned to ride it quite quickly and used it to get around my neighborhood.

Suggestion: Give a clear yes-or-no response and explain your view with one specific comparison or reason. Avoid repeating “in my country” and complete your ideas. Use natural phrases such as “bikes are popular” and “people use them,” rather than repeating “bikers.”

Example: Yes, I think bikes are popular in my country, especially in cities. Many people use them for short journeys because they are convenient and inexpensive. In my village, however, people seem to use them less often.

× I had a small, uh, rent bike when I was child.

✓ I had a small, uh, rent bike when I was a child.

The singular countable noun child needs an article. Use a before child: I was a child.

× It has training walls at first.

✓ It had training wheels at first.

The answer describes the bike in the past, so use the past-tense form had rather than has. Training wheels is the usual term for the small supporting wheels on a child's bike.

× I use it, it to go to uh, the.

✓ I used it to go to ...

The student is describing past use of the bike, so use used rather than use. Remove the repeated it; the phrase after to is incomplete in the transcript, so the destination cannot be corrected reliably.

× The peoples have a anymore bikers.

✓ The people have ... bikers.

People is already the plural form of person, so peoples is not appropriate here unless referring to distinct ethnic groups. The words after people are unclear in the transcript, so their intended meaning cannot be corrected reliably.