Part 1
Examinador
Did you have a bike when you were a child?
Candidato
Yes, I do have a bike, so I was learning to ride from my home to school while using the bicycle. Apart from that, in the evening time when I go to play with my friend, I used to prefer go with a bicycle.
Examinador
Do you think bikes are popular in your country?
Candidato
Yeah, it's a pretty popular in my country because the transportation system was not good back then The so people prefer to use the bicycle compared to bus timing, bus get delays. So yeah, it's a pretty famous over there.
Did you have a bike when you were a child?
Pontuação: 58.0Sugestão: Be careful with tense consistency and sentence structure. Start with a clear topic sentence in past tense (since the question asks about childhood), then add one or two specific supporting details using linking words. Avoid redundant phrases and correct grammar (e.g., ‘I had’ not ‘I do have’, ‘I preferred to go’). Keep answers natural and within 2–4 sentences.
Exemplo: I had a bike when I was a child, and I learned to ride it by cycling from home to school every day. In the evenings I often rode it to the park to play with my friends because it was faster and more fun than walking.
Do you think bikes are popular in your country?
Pontuação: 52.0Sugestão: Use clear grammar and cohesive linking words, and answer directly with a topic sentence. Give one or two specific reasons or examples, and correct mistakes (e.g., ‘it’s pretty popular’, ‘because the public transport is unreliable’, ‘buses are often late’). Avoid vague phrases like ‘pretty famous over there’.
Exemplo: Yes, bicycles are quite popular in my country because public transport is often unreliable and buses are frequently late. For example, many commuters prefer cycling short distances to work or school to avoid waiting for delayed buses.
× Yes, I do have a bike, so I was learning to ride from my home to school while using the bicycle.
✓ Yes, I had a bike, so I learned to ride it from my home to school.
The question asks about having a bike when the student was a child, so past tense should be used (present tense 'do have' and past continuous 'was learning' are inconsistent). Use simple past 'had' and 'learned' for completed past actions. Also replace 'using the bicycle' with 'ride it' for natural phrasing.
× Apart from that, in the evening time when I go to play with my friend, I used to prefer go with a bicycle.
✓ Apart from that, in the evenings when I went to play with my friend, I used to prefer going by bicycle.
Mixed tenses and incorrect verb form: 'go to play' and 'prefer go' are incorrect when describing past habitual actions. Use past habitual 'went' and the correct structure 'prefer doing' or 'prefer going'; 'going by bicycle' is the natural prepositional phrase.
× Yeah, it's a pretty popular in my country because the transportation system was not good back then The so people prefer to use the bicycle compared to bus timing, bus get delays.
✓ Yeah, bicycles were pretty popular in my country because the transportation system was not good back then, so people preferred to use bicycles compared to buses because buses were often delayed.
Several issues: 'it's a pretty popular' incorrectly mixes 'it' with 'popular'—use plural 'bicycles were pretty popular' for subject agreement. Tense should be past ('were', 'preferred') to match 'back then'. 'The so' is incorrect conjunction and needs punctuation and 'so'. 'Bus timing, bus get delays' is ungrammatical; express cause clearly: 'buses were often delayed.' Also ensure plural forms 'bicycles' and 'buses' for count nouns.
× So yeah, it's a pretty famous over there.
✓ So yeah, they were pretty popular over there.
The context refers to the past ('back then'), so present 'it's' is inconsistent. Also 'famous' is odd for objects; use 'popular.' Use plural 'they were' or 'bicycles were' to match noun number and past timeframe.