Hello, hello dear listener and welcome into IELTS speaking part 3, transport.
Let's talk about transport in general.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of private transport?
it. It seems like the most obvious plus points are things like convenience, since you can usually order things like taxis right to your door.
And directness, you just point it in the direction that you want to go and you get to where you need to be.
Unlike with public transport, where you might have a bit of a walk even after you get to the general area, I suppose when it comes to downsides, clearly cost is a factor because greater position will need more resources and you have to pay for them.
Another negative aspect could be the environmental cost.
I mean, if we just focus on cars, for example, then having lots of them will produce more emissions than just having a single bus, for example.
So that could be a problem too.
Who likes to travel more, older people or younger people?
Well, in my country, older people get a bus pass so they can use public transport for free, or at least at a heavily discounted price.
So I suppose they tend to get around a lot more.
And then more generally when you think about it, older people tend to have more money saved up so they could spend it on things like travel or things associated with travel while younger people tend not to have such substantial reserves.
What do you think needs to be improved in public transport?
A million things. The maintenance and cleanliness could always be better just because you see lots of litter or damage.
And then it never seems to be very well run or it's inefficient and wasteful.
So better funding and a culture that is conducive to those things being addressed would go a long way to fixing them.
Are there fewer people using private cars because of improved public transport?
I mean, it's not that obvious one way or the other, to be honest.
That's not exactly something you see being reported in the news.
And you don't usually go out of your way to find out about it.
And I guess I would say that, well, it makes sense that this is happening.
There seem to be ever more cars on the road, but that's just a feeling based on experience and it's not a fact, it's just an opinion.
Do you think offering free public transport will solve traffic problems in the city?
It might solve the problems of traffic congestion.
in some cases. However some people they're almost married to their cars and the other thing is if you give something if you give people something for free they tend to treat it with a lot less respect which has happened with bus passes in my country.
So I don't know if it will solve these problems and even if it did it might create a whole host of new problems.
How will transport change in the future?
Oh, actually, I answered a market research survey about this recently.
And so, apparently, lots of new technologies are in the pipeline involving drones and remotely operated vehicles.
So, instead of getting a bus, people would be shuttled to and from wherever they get picked up and dropped off by small helicopters and things.
That's something they're looking at.
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See you soon. so private transport dear listener we mean cars private vehicles private cars and public transport buses trains well planes but planes could be private like private jets you could probably have a private bus as well if you wanted so it's not really about the size it's more about the ownership
who owns this is it an individual or a community to paraphrase the examiner's question about advantages and disadvantages, you say the obvious plus point is that convenience.
So, the advantage, the obvious plus point of private transport is convenience.
And you have your car right next to your house, you can order a taxi right to your door, order a taxi right to your door.
So, the taxi will come just where you are.
To your house, right to your door is to your house or where you live.
But public transport, with public transport, you might have a bit of a walk.
So, you just walk there to the train station, to a bus station.
Disadvantages or downsides.
So, one of the downsides of private transport is that, well, it costs a lot.
So the cost. Well, it costs a lot compared to public transport, usually.
I say this, um, you know, train tickets in my country cost something like five or six times as much as plane tickets it's crazy crazy yeah and i think in europe in general train tickets are super expensive yeah i don't understand why but no because like uh you have what modern trains you have super
modern trains fast trains i don't know i think it's to do with how the companies are run uh like i say it's extremely inefficient another downside could be the environmental cost So what private cars do to the environment?
We can always talk about the environmental cost of something, because there is always an environmental cost of something.
Cars produce lots of emissions, so harmful gases.
So cars emit harmful gases or produce emissions.
You can say that in my country, older people get a bus more often than younger people.
at least i think so it makes sense if you have this bus pass then you're more likely to use it than if you don't i guess yeah and usually people get a metro pass or a bus pass a train pass i say this um you know train tickets in my country cost something like five or six times as much as plane tickets
it's crazy crazy yeah and i think in europe in general train tickets are super expensive yeah i don't understand why but no because like you have what modern trains you have super modern trains fast trains i don't know i think it's to do with how the companies are run like i say it's extremely inefficient
another downside could be the environmental cost so what private cars do to the environment we can always talk about the environmental cost of something because there is always an environmental cost of something cars produce lots of emissions so harmful gases so cars emit harmful gases or produce emissions
you can say that in my country older people get a bus more often than younger people at least i think so it makes sense if you have this bus pass then you're more likely to use it than if you don't i guess yeah and usually people get a metro pass or a bus pass a train pass like this card that you use
and you just travel by train lots of times not like a single trip so a bus pass or a train pass and older people get this bus passes and they can travel for free but maybe not in your country dear listener yes but generally older people and younger people in certain disadvantaged groups might get discounts
or heavily discounted access to things yeah or they get like all the people get a heavily discounted price on public transport so they tend to get around more they get around more they travel more than younger people or it's for free let's go by train hey you know instead of staying at home they just
go out and about, traveling by buses and trains.
That's why it's packed.
Public transport is packed, full of people.
And older people tend to have more money saved up.
So older people tend to save up money so they can spend money on travel.
Younger people tend not to have such substantial reserves substantial like significant a lot of money reserves meaning like financial things money well just uh what what could we say uh stocks of money they're holding money public transport needs to be improved passive voice we talk about maintenance
so the maintenance of public transport the government maintains public transport meaning it takes care of public transport repairs it like the government right and the maintenance all this you know when i take care of things is expensive so the maintenance and cleanliness cleanliness cleanliness cleanliness
or cleanliness. Cleanliness.
It looks like cleanliness when you write it, but it's pronounced cleanliness.
Cleanliness. From the word clean.
Cleanliness. The state of being clean.
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For your white people, dear listener.
not less people fewer people and um we can say that there are fewer people who choose private cars more people choose public transport for example all the other way around more people choose private cars you don't go out of your way to find the answer to this at least i don't think you do.
Yeah, go out of your way to do something is a nice idiom.
But that just means that you make a special effort to perform something specific.
But I don't think most people try hard to find out if there are more people using private cars or there are fewer people using them because of better public transport, I don't know.
It sounds like that, but how do you know that for sure and you can say that there seemed to be ever more cars on the road so now there are more cars on the road than there used to be in the past about traffic jams you can say traffic congestion that's a very good synonym use it in your essay so traffic
congestion could be improved i liked it when you said that some people are married to their cars yeah so in this case it doesn't matter what you offer is the alternative they will still want to use their car yeah true so do listen some people are married to their cars it's a happy marriage so they don't go
by public transport a very good synonym to a lot of a host of a host of problems a host of new vehicles so a host of something and about the future you can say that some new technology is in the pipeline in the pipeline meaning it's coming it will be implemented in the future It is planned.
So something is in the pipeline for the future.
And Rory told us about drones regulating the traffic, for example.
And people could be shuttled to, people could be moved from point A to point B.
People could be shuttled to different places by small helicopters.
They could be, yeah.
in the future, there will be helicopter taxis, for example, in cities.
Very convenient. Convenient, but I don't know how likely it is to happen.
It was just in this market research survey I was doing.
Yeah, so it sounds really futuristic.
Futuristic, like it will be in the future.
So maybe unrealistic, but, well, it sounds like the future.
I recommend reading some articles also about transport in the future to kind of to find some ideas and these ideas could be used in your essays as well so transport in the future and some technology that yeah they're using in your country in public and private transport okay dear listener that's your
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Bye. What are the advantages and disadvantages of private transport?
It seems like the most obvious plus points are things like convenience, since you can usually order things like taxis right to your door.
And directness, you just point it in the direction that you want to go and you get to where you need to be.
Unlike with public transport where you might have a bit of a walk even after you get to the general area.
I suppose when it comes to downsides, clearly cost is a factor because greater position will need more resources and you have to pay for them.
Another negative aspect could be the environmental cost.
I mean, if we just focus on cars, for example, then having lots of them will produce more emissions than just having a single bus, for example.
So that could be a problem too.
Who likes to travel more?
older people or younger people?
Well, in my country older people get a bus pass so they can use public transport for free or at least at a heavily discounted price.
So I suppose they tend to get around a lot more.
And then more generally when you think about it older people tend to have more money saved up so they can spend it on things like travel or things associated with travel while younger people tend not to have such substantial reserves.
What do you think needs to be improved in public transport?
A million things. The maintenance and cleanliness could always be better, just because you see lots of litter or damage.
And then it never seems to be very well run, or it's inefficient and wasteful.
So better funding and a culture that is conducive to those things being addressed would go a long way to fixing them.
Are there fewer people using private cars because of improved public transport?
I mean it's not that obvious one way or the other to be honest That's not exactly something you see being reported in the news And you don't usually go out of your way to find out about it And I guess I would say that while it makes sense that this is happening There seem to be ever more cars on the road
But that's just a feeling based on experience And it's not a fact it's just an opinion do you think offering free public transport will solve traffic problems in the city it might solve the problems of traffic congestion in some cases however some people they're almost married to their cars and the other
thing is if you give something if you give people something for free they tend to treat it with a lot less respect which has happened with bus passes in my country So they don't know if it will solve these problems And even if it did, it might create a whole host of new problems How will transport change
in the future? Oh, actually, I answered a market research survey about this recently And so, apparently, lots of new technologies are in the pipeline Involving drones and remotely operated vehicles So instead of getting a bus, people would be shuttled to and from wherever they get picked up and dropped off by small helicopters and things.
That's something you're looking at.
