Part 1
考官
Do you prefer to sit by the window when travelling?
考生
Yes, I prefer to exactly the windows in the coffee shop because when I sit by the window I can see the street and the peoples what they doing in my tourist city.
考官
Did you have a long journey with your family as a child?
考生
Yeah, I had the journey, long journey with my family when I was a child. It is a city by the sea and it is so funny. It is the summer. I enjoyed to swimming. I enjoyed swimming and the seaside foods.
Do you prefer to sit by the window when travelling?
分數: 55.0建議: 「prefer to exactly the windows」は不自然なので、「prefer sitting by the window」または「prefer a window seat」と言いましょう。また、「the peoples what they doing」は文法的に誤りがあるため、「people walking along the street」や「what people are doing」と表現できます。最初に好みを直接述べ、その後に理由と具体的な情景を加えると、より明確で自然な回答になります。「tourist city」も文脈によっては「my hometown」や都市名のほうが自然です。
範例: Yes, I prefer sitting by the window when I travel. I enjoy looking out at the streets and watching people go about their daily lives. It is especially interesting when I visit a tourist city because there is usually a lot happening outside.
Did you have a long journey with your family as a child?
分數: 58.0建議: 質問は過去の経験を尋ねているため、最初に「Yes, I did.」と直接答え、その後は過去形で統一しましょう。「I had the journey, long journey」は「I went on a long journey」に、「It is the summer」は「It was summer」に直します。「It is so funny」は旅行の感想としては「It was great」や「It was a lot of fun」が自然です。また、「enjoyed to swimming」は「enjoyed swimming」、「seaside foods」は「seafood」または具体的な料理名にします。行き先、時期、活動、感想をリンク語でつなぐと、内容がより具体的になります。
範例: Yes, I did. When I was a child, my family and I went on a long journey to a seaside city during the summer. We went swimming, ate fresh seafood, and had a lot of fun together. I still remember it because it was a relaxing family holiday.
× Yes, I prefer to exactly the windows in the coffee shop because when I sit by the window I can see the street and the peoples what they doing in my tourist city.
✓ Yes, I prefer to sit by the window in the coffee shop because, when I sit there, I can see the street and the people in my tourist city.
The phrase prefer to exactly the windows is grammatically incomplete because prefer to must be followed by a base-form verb. The corrected sentence uses prefer to sit by the window. The phrase when I sit there also avoids unnecessarily repeating by the window.
× Yes, I prefer to exactly the windows in the coffee shop because when I sit by the window I can see the street and the peoples what they doing in my tourist city.
✓ Yes, I prefer to sit by the window in the coffee shop because, when I sit there, I can see the street and the people in my tourist city.
People is already the plural form of person, so peoples is incorrect in this context. Peoples is used only when referring to different ethnic or cultural groups. Use people for ordinary plural meaning.
× Yes, I prefer to exactly the windows in the coffee shop because when I sit by the window I can see the street and the peoples what they doing in my tourist city.
✓ Yes, I prefer to sit by the window in the coffee shop because, when I sit there, I can see the street and the people who are walking around in my tourist city.
What cannot normally be used as the relative pronoun for people in this sentence. Use who for people. For example, the people who are walking around is the correct structure.
× Yes, I prefer to exactly the windows in the coffee shop because when I sit by the window I can see the street and the peoples what they doing in my tourist city.
✓ Yes, I prefer to sit by the window in the coffee shop because, when I sit there, I can see the street and the people who are walking around in my tourist city.
The present continuous requires the present-tense form of be before the present participle. Therefore, they doing must become they are walking or they are doing. The auxiliary verb are is necessary.
× Yeah, I had the journey, long journey with my family when I was a child.
✓ Yeah, I had a long journey with my family when I was a child.
Use a before a singular countable noun when mentioning it for the first time. The phrase a long journey is correct. The definite article the is not appropriate here, and repeating journey is unnecessary.
× It is a city by the sea and it is so funny.
✓ It was a city by the sea, and the trip was fun.
The answer describes a journey that happened during childhood, so the past tense is needed. Change is to was. Also, fun is the natural adjective for an enjoyable experience; funny usually means amusing or strange.
× It is a city by the sea and it is so funny.
✓ It was a city by the sea, and the trip was fun.
Funny generally describes something that makes people laugh or seems strange. To describe an enjoyable journey, use fun. The noun trip also makes it clear that the journey, rather than the city, was enjoyable.
× It is the summer.
✓ It was summer.
The speaker is talking about a past journey, so use the past form was instead of the present form is. When referring to the season generally, say it was summer without the article the.
× It is the summer.
✓ It was summer.
When referring to a season in a general way, do not use the definite article the. The natural expression is it was summer. The article may be used in specific expressions, such as the summer of 2020.
× I enjoyed to swimming.
✓ I enjoyed swimming.
The verb enjoy must be followed by a gerund, which is the -ing form of a verb. Therefore, use enjoyed swimming, not enjoyed to swimming. A useful pattern is enjoy plus verb-ing.