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Welcome to IELTS Dragon
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Today's video lesson is about IELTS Speaking Part 1 with the topic Public Transportation
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I'll answer questions about transportation so you'll have an idea on how to talk about
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public transportation better in your IELTS Speaking exam. Let's get started
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Do people in your country usually use public transportation? Let me read the first answer. Definitely
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I'm proud to say that our government has made so much effort to provide better public transportation
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to us. We have a wide choice of transport such as trains, buses, ferries, rapid transit, among others
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And what I like about our transport system is that it's well organized and more importantly
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the schedules are strictly followed. So here, I gave a direct positive answer, but not in a traditional way of saying yes
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Then I proceeded to talk about my feelings towards the efforts that had been put by the
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government in my country to improve the public transportation system. To extend my answer, I enumerated some examples of public transport in my country that people
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could use, and that served as my topic vocabulary words. Finally, I ended my answer by expressing my opinion about the condition of transport system
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in my country. Let's continue! What's the most popular mode of transportation in your hometown
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My hometown is really remote, so it's expected that we don't have plenty of choices in terms
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of public transportation. So basically, people in my hometown own vehicles. It's common in every household to have at least one car, and that's the main means of
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transportation there. So my answer here is creative in a way that I didn't immediately provide one type of transportation
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I made the examiner visualize the condition of our hometown, and after that, I gave my
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answer, which is car. That's a very good way to show off my language skills to the examiner
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Also, if you notice, I used the word hometown twice. Well, you don't always need to paraphrase words, as it will only make it sound unnatural
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Let's continue! If you are new to this channel, or if you haven't subscribed yet, click the subscribe
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button now. Thank you so much! What's the difference between planes and trains
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Well, for sure there are so many differences between the two, but let me focus on one thing
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which is the most obvious, and that's the classification of transportation. Planes are for air travel, and trains are for land
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So here, I answered the question simply and naturally. I didn't need to enumerate many differences, since the question is in the singular form
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So I simply pointed out the reasonable difference. Let's continue
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Do people in your country drive to work? If we talk about the people in cities, they normally use the public transportation, since
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the system is incredibly convenient. Our government invested so much on transportation in cities, because the business is centered
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in those places. However, if we talk about the countryside, just like where I come from, we definitely
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drive to work, because there's no any other way, unless you're patient enough to spend
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so much time waiting for the bus. Alright, I answered the question in a more detailed way
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Instead of just immediately saying yes or no, I categorized my answer into two
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First, people in the city. Second, people in the countryside. That's a great way to answer, as we cannot really generalize people
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Also, notice the sentence construction. I used a conditional tense, and that's really helpful in boosting my grammar mark
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Let's continue! Do you think people will drive more in the future
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I don't really know, I'm not sure, maybe not. The only thing that I'm certain is, the technology is always evolving
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These days, we do have self-driving cars. Although they're not yet available in the market, still I have this feeling that one
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day people can use them as their mode of transportation. If that happens, then people will drive less, since those cars are computer generated
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Okay, so I gave an honest answer here, since no one really knows the future
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So don't be afraid to be straightforward with your answer, especially if you don't
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really know the answer. The most important thing is, you're able to use language and provide an explanation
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as to why you don't know. That's being natural. Please speak naturally, as that's what the examiner really wants
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miss any latest video lessons. And that's all about IELTS Speaking Part 1, Public Transportation
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Thank you for watching! Until the next lesson, have a lovely day
