Bike— Part 1 採点レポート

提案: You answer the question directly and give relevant details about how often you rode and who taught you. To sound more natural and avoid repetition, you could replace “riding it was my favorite hobby” with a more concise phrase, and connect the details with “because” or “also.”

例: Yes, I had a bike as a child, and I loved cycling. I rode around my neighbourhood almost every afternoon, and my older brother taught me when I was six.

提案: Your answer begins with a clear opinion, but it becomes difficult to follow and stops mid-sentence. Use the present tense for a general question (“bikes are popular”), avoid repeating “kind of,” and explain the bike-riding challenge with one specific detail. Finish with a complete sentence.

例: Yes, bikes are quite popular in the Philippines, especially among children. When I was younger, my friends and I often had little bike-riding challenges in our neighbourhood, such as seeing who could ride the farthest.

× Yes, definitely it was popular here in the Philippines.

✓ Yes, definitely, bikes are popular here in the Philippines.

The question asks whether bikes are popular now, so use the present tense. Because bikes is plural, use are rather than was. Name bikes explicitly to make the subject clear.

× since when we are younger we had this kind of kind of bike riding challenge

✓ When we were younger, we had this kind of bike-riding challenge.

The sentence describes a past period, so use the past-tense form were instead of the present-tense form are. Avoid since when here; when clearly introduces the time period. The repeated kind of is a speech disfluency, not a grammar error.