B1 – Intermediate
Based on a recent study, novice and younger drivers have a higher likelihood to be in a car crash.
Read more on this Breaking News article about the result of this study. Be ready to have a speaking exercise using some of the words featured in the article.
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1610/161018-teen-drivers.html
Discussion Questions:
- What do you think of teen drivers?
- How can one become a really good driver?
- What is traffic safety like in your country?
- When do you think is the best age for people to start driving? Why?
- Kindly share your experiences being a first-time driver.
9 replies on “Teen Drivers Most at Risk of Crashing”
1. What do you think of teen drivers?
I think that teen drivers have most likely to be in a crash drive compare to adult drivers because they have less experience in driving.
2. How can one become a really good driver?
I think one can become a really good driver by driving, the way to improve your driving is getting experience. I believe that awareness campaigns can help to improve driving too.
3. What is traffic safety like in your country?
I think traffic safety in my country is mostly high but it’s true that it depends on the road, if we are talking about primary net with highways then there is a high traffic safety but if we are talking about the secondary road net with comarcal roads then traffic security decrease
4. When do you think is the best age for people to start driving? Why?
I think that the best age for people to start driving depends on each one but this is not possible to manage but if I have to answer I say that eighteen is the best one aged to start driving
5- Kindly share your experiences being a first-time driver.
When I was a first-time driver I was very careful with my actions, I remember It was a bit difficult sometimes to park but when I was getting experience it was easier. I have had lucky and I haven’t had any serious crash I had one little crash driving in the city but I haven’t had any accident driving in high speed roads.
It’s nice to read about your thoughts on this topic. Thanks for sharing them.
Here is one sentence you can revise, though:
Keep practicing to improve more and more.
What do you think of teen drivers?
In my country, Spain, you can’t have a drive’s license before you are 18 years old and I think that is too soon. I think we need to be older.
How can one become a really good driver?
We can become good drivers with experience. You learn to drive by driving.
What is traffic safety like in your country?
Traffic safety is good in my country but I think it could be better, for example, there are many bad roads.
When do you think is the best age for people to start driving? Why?
The best age for people to start driving is 20 year old because you are an adult and you aren’t too old. If you are very old it will be more difficult for you to learn.
Kindly share your experiences being a first-time driver.
I got my driver’s license when I was 18 years old and I have always been careful but I once crashed with a deer. The deer jumped on my car!
Nice work with your responses to this lesson’s discussion questions.
Take a look at a minor edit you can make in this sentence to improve it:
Continue doing this writing exercise.
Personally, I don’t trust in teenagers because the human brain doesn’t finish its development until 25 years old. Obviously, a teenager who is aged 15-18 is not able to get consciousness about the consequences of his actions, so it is more possible that he commits mistakes at the wheel.
I think that a good driver is someone that can take consciousness and responsibility of his actions, keeping in mind that every time that he takes the wheel, his life and the other ones are on his hands. I know a lot of adults are not responsible; but it’s not a new that teenagers use to be inattentive and focused on their own stuff. That’s because I think the best age to start driving are 25 years old.
In my country, there are every week traffic accidents in which there is at least one dead. Also, most of the times, at least one of the victims has alcohol or other drugs in his blood.
I don’t have driving license.
Hope you are seeing how much you are improving one writing practice at a time. Well done!
Take note on how you can still improve this sentence a bit:
Nice going!
1. What do you think of teen drivers?
I think that there are of all but think that your bigest problem is the lack of driving experience and be little prudent
2. How can one become a really good driver?
First is know the risks what’s driving, being prudent and respecting the traffic rules
3. What is traffic safety like in your country?
Now is better that before, the people respect very more the traffic rules but there is still a lot of crazy
4. When do you think is the best age for people to start driving? Why?
I think that not is one problem age is one problem of the responsability, one person can be very responsability witch 18 years and not be witch 40 years. In Spain we can get our driver’s license witch 18 years this seem one good age, before no
5. Kindly share your experiences being a first-time driver.
I got my driver’s license witch 30 years because to me I don’t liked driving, now It’s not that I like it very much, I do it more out of necessity
Good job answering this lesson’s discussion questions. It’s best that you keep going with your writing practice to continue improving your skills.
Look at this sentence and how it can be written better:
Keep practicing!
Teen drivers are more dangerous than skilled drivers, because the experience is quite important in this matter. In my country, people can drive since 18 years old. It might be better to increase this age from the point of view of safety, but on the other hand, I remember when I was young that I couldn’t wait to get started to drive. It’s true that skilled drivers could be dangerous too, in case they got overmuch confidence.