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Band 6+: Describe an environmental problem or event. You should say: What is it Where is it happening What problems does it cause

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I'd like to tell you about the environmental issue that happened in my hometown. It's air pollution, and in 2025, last year, air pollution levels have been increasing. This can lead to an increase in respiratory disease levels, especially in younger children and the elderly. The government has been trying to improve public transport and also provide external services to make it attractive for residents to use. Besides that, they are also trying to restrict the use of personal vehicles such as cars and motorbikes to encourage local people to commute by train, bus, or tram. This problem is mainly driven by the use of personal vehicles and factories. My hometown is in China, Basling City. There are many factories, and the majority of people work, study, or go to other places. This is why we have poor air quality.

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I’d like to tell you about the infirmable issue that happened in my hometown. It’s air pollution and in 2025, last year, air pollution level has been increasing. has been increasing so that can lead to the increase in respiratory disease level, especially in younger children and the elderly. So then the government has been trying to reconstruct public transport and also provide external surface to make it attractive for residents to use it besides that they also try to restrict the use of personal vehicles such as car motorbikes so then encourage local people to commute by train or even bus or tram. So then this kind of problem is mainly driven by the use of personal vehicle and also factories. My own hometown is China, Basling City. There are many factories and also the majority of people to work, to study or to go to some other places. So this is why we have poor air quality.

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Vocabulary Complexity:
B2 - Upper Intermediate
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Vocabulary Repetition:

this: 3

hometown: 2

pollution: 2

levels: 2

trying: 2

personal: 2

vehicles: 2

people: 2

factories: 2

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Pronunciation

Your pronunciation is above average. However, you may find complexity in certain words challenging. Regular practice should aid in improvement.

Task Response

The response addresses all parts of the prompt, including the nature of the problem, the location, and the consequences. The candidate provides specific details regarding the causes (factories and personal vehicles) and the potential health impacts. To improve the score, the response could be developed further by providing more depth regarding the 'event' or the specific experience of living through this pollution. Expanding on the personal impact or describing a specific instance of poor air quality would help in meeting the requirement for a fully developed answer. Additionally, ensuring chronological consistency in time references would enhance the coherence of the response.

Fluency & Coherence

The speaker maintains a relatively steady flow, but there is significant repetition of cohesive devices, specifically the phrase 'So then,' which is used multiple times to connect ideas. This makes the speech feel somewhat mechanical. To improve, you should vary your discourse markers (e.g., 'Consequently,' 'As a result,' 'Furthermore,' or 'Due to this'). Additionally, the logical progression is slightly disrupted by jumping from the solution (government action) back to the cause (factories/vehicles) and then to the location. Try to follow a more linear structure: Problem -> Location -> Causes -> Effects -> Solutions.

Lexical Resource

The vocabulary is functional but quite basic and contains some errors that affect precision. For example, 'infirmable issue' was likely a mispronunciation or misuse of 'environmental issue.' The use of 'respiratory disease level' is slightly unnatural; 'rates of respiratory diseases' would be more precise. To reach a higher band, you need to use more topic-specific collocations such as 'toxic emissions,' 'deteriorating air quality,' 'urban sprawl,' or 'mitigation strategies.' Avoid repeating 'personal vehicles' and 'increase' too frequently.

Grammatical Range & Accuracy

The speaker uses a mix of simple and compound sentences. There are several grammatical inconsistencies, particularly with verb tenses and subject-verb agreement (e.g., 'air pollution level has been increasing' vs 'levels have been increasing'). There is also a confusion in time referencing: 'in 2025, last year' is logically contradictory if the speaker is currently in 2024 or 2025. Work on using complex structures like relative clauses (e.g., 'which leads to...') and conditional sentences (e.g., 'If the government hadn't intervened, the situation would have worsened') to demonstrate a higher range.

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