Part 1
考官
Did you have a bike when you were a child?
考生
Yes, I did have a bike when I was little. Not early on though. I only learned how to ride a bike late into my teens. I was in high school and I sometimes used to save me when I was late to school to my classes.
考官
Do you think bikes are popular in your country?
考生
Yes, matter of fact, cycling is the most common way of transportation in my country, mainly due to it being cheap and also it's cheaper to build bike lanes than it is to accommodate larger buses.
Did you have a bike when you were a child?
分数: 72.0建议: Your answer is generally clear and relevant, but it has some grammatical errors, redundancy and coherence problems. Improve by giving a direct topic sentence, fixing tense and pronoun mistakes, removing repetition, and linking ideas with a simple connector. Be specific about timing and give one brief supporting detail. Keep it within about 3–4 sentences.
示例: Yes, I had a bike when I was a child, although I learned to ride it relatively late. I only became confident in my teens while I was in high school, and I often used the bike to get to class quickly when I was running late. Because it was faster than walking, it saved me a lot of time.
Do you think bikes are popular in your country?
分数: 80.0建议: Good direct answer and clear reason. Improve by making the language more natural, correcting small phrasing issues, and adding a specific example or brief statistic to support your claim. Use a linking phrase to connect reasons and avoid repeating 'cheap' twice.
示例: Yes, in fact cycling is one of the most common ways to travel in my country because it is inexpensive and convenient. For example, many people commute by bike to work or school, and cities invest in bike lanes instead of costly bus infrastructure, which keeps travel affordable for most households.
× I only learned how to ride a bike late into my teens.
✓ I only learned how to ride a bike late in my teens.
Use of the preposition is incorrect for this time expression: 'late in my teens' is the standard idiom. 'Late into my teens' is nonstandard. Replace 'into' with 'in' to indicate the period during which the learning occurred.
× I was in high school and I sometimes used to save me when I was late to school to my classes.
✓ I was in high school and sometimes I used to ride my bike to school when I was late for my classes.
Original sentence is ungrammatical and unclear. 'Used to save me' is incorrect: likely meant 'ride my bike' or 'save time'. Also word order and prepositions are wrong: 'late to school to my classes' should be 'late for my classes' or 'late to school'. The corrected version reorders elements, uses 'used to' correctly to indicate a past habit, uses 'ride my bike' (a clear verb phrase), and 'late for my classes' for correct preposition usage.
× Yes, matter of fact, cycling is the most common way of transportation in my country, mainly due to it being cheap and also it's cheaper to build bike lanes than it is to accommodate larger buses.
✓ Yes, as a matter of fact, cycling is the most common mode of transportation in my country, mainly because it is cheap, and it is also less expensive to build bike lanes than to accommodate larger buses.
Multiple issues: missing article 'as' in the phrase 'as a matter of fact'; 'way of transportation' is awkward — 'mode of transportation' is idiomatic; 'it being cheap' is a clumsy gerund phrase — use 'because it is cheap'; contraction 'it's' is acceptable in speech but for clarity expand to 'it is'; use 'less expensive' rather than 'cheaper' when comparing different methods in this context, and remove redundant 'it is' after 'than'. Also fixed pronoun references for clarity.