Bike— Part 1 採点レポート

提案: Answer the question directly and add one specific detail. The phrase “say how?” is unclear and does not explain your answer. Use a simple structure: “Yes, I did” or “No, I didn’t,” followed by information about the bike or how you used it.

例: Yes, I did. I had a small blue bike, and I used to ride it around my neighborhood with my friends after school.

提案: Give a clear opinion and support it with a reason or example. Avoid repeating “popular,” and correct the tense and sentence structure: use “They were popular when I was a child, and they are still popular today.” Also, use “bikes” or “they” instead of “it” because the noun is plural.

例: Yes, I think bikes are quite popular in my country. They were popular when I was a child, and they are still widely used today because they are affordable and convenient for short trips.

× Yeah, say how?

✓ Yes, I did.

The original response is not a complete or meaningful sentence in this context. Because the examiner asks a yes-or-no question in the past tense, answer with the subject and auxiliary verb: Yes, I did. You can also add a detail, such as Yes, I did. I had a bike when I was a child.

× It's very popular and now it's when I was a child also.

✓ Bikes are very popular now, and they were also popular when I was a child.

The subject bikes is plural, so use are rather than is and they rather than it. The corrected sentence also uses were for the past time reference when I was a child. Make sure pronouns agree in number with the nouns they replace.

× It's very popular and now it's when I was a child also.

✓ Bikes are very popular now, and they were also popular when I was a child.

The phrase when I was a child refers to the past, so the verb be must be in the past tense: were. Use are for the present situation now and were for the past situation.

× It's very popular and now it's when I was a child also.

✓ Bikes are very popular now, and they were also popular when I was a child.

When describing the current popularity of bikes, use the present tense are. Since bikes is plural, the correct form is Bikes are very popular now.

× It's very popular and now it's when I was a child also.

✓ Bikes are very popular now, and they were also popular when I was a child.

The pronoun it is singular, but it refers to bikes, which is plural. Replace it with they and use the plural verb forms are and were.

× It's very popular and now it's when I was a child also.

✓ Bikes are very popular now, and they were also popular when I was a child.

The original sentence combines ideas in an unclear structure. A clearer structure is to state the present situation first and then connect it to the past situation with and: Bikes are very popular now, and they were also popular when I was a child.