B1 – Intermediate
Driving is a privilege and along with it is its responsibilities. In order to get a driver’s license you must have the necessary driving skills and knowledge and obedience to the traffic rules. All these should be enforced especially after you get your license and start to hit the road.
Discussion Questions:
1. Do you have a driver’s license? If yes, how long have you been driving?
2. Are you familiar with all the traffic rules?
3. Is it easy to get a driver’s license in your country?
16 replies on “Getting a Driver’s License”
1. Do you have a driver’s license? If yes, how long have you been driving?
Yes, I have a driver’s license for 21 years. I was 22 years old. I started driving because my husband is a fanatic’s car. He really like’s car. And I thought it wasn’t important, and after a few years, I got my first job, thanks to the fact that I had a driver’s license, because it was essencial for work.
2. Are you familiar with all the traffic rules?
Yes, my father-in-law. He dieda few yeras ago. He was a driver’s license teacher and he had all the license (car, truck, motorcycle..) but he was a car teacher only.
3. Is it easy to get a driver’s license in your country?
In spain we have a teoric and practic exam. The teoric ia test exam, if you study it isn’t dificulty. The practic is dificulty because in barcelona the traffic is horrible…
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* Capitalize S in “Spain”.
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Discussion Questions:
1. Do you have a driver’s license? If yes, how long have you been driving?
Yes, I have a driver’s licence for 17 years, since I was 20 yers old, therefore I have been driving for 17 years. Since I started driving, I have enjoy very much driving around the citys, move along from one city to another one also.In conclusión I love driving cars, specially my car.
2. Are you familiar with all the traffic rules?
Sincerely, I reconize that every day more, I drive automatically through my experince adquired over the years driving and I’m not totally aware about all traffic rules.
3. Is it easy to get a driver’s license in your country?
Well, it’s depends on the various things, the confidence of everyone and lucky. The driver’s licence over here in my country, in Spain, is composed by two different parts; one part is theorical exam test, composed by 30 questions and if you want to pass the exam you must answer correctly at least 27 questions. Another part is practice exam, where you have to drive from 20 to 30 minutes by the roads of your city or for the capital, for example Barcelona and to pass this exam you have to make a few errors as posible.
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* Mind your spelling (years, cities, specially vs especially)
* Put “therefore” at the beginning of your sentence, followed by a comma (,).
* Observe proper word order in this sentence: “I have enjoy very much driving around the citys, move along from one city to another one also.”
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1. No, I think I’m a better co-pilot
2. I only know the most basic ones, since I don’t have a license, I don’t need to know them all
3.I don’t know if it’s easy, but it is necessary to pay for a driving school, which is expensive.
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1. Yes, I have had a driver’s license for 3 years.
2. There are many but I would say that most of them if I know them.
3. It depends, for me it was easy, there is a theoretical exam that if you study and do many tests, it is easy to pass, and the practical exam is also easy if you have given enough classes before.
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1. Do you have a driver’s license? If yes, how long have you been driving? Yes, I’ve been driving since 1993.
2. Are you familiar with all the traffic rules? Most of them, because they are usually the same in all roads.
3. Is it easy to get a driver’s license in your country? It’s not easy because you first have to do a teorical test of 30 questions and only 3 mistakes, and after you have the practice test. Only 3 opportunities for both.
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1. Do you have a driver’s license? If yes, how long have you been driving?
Yes, I had my driver’s license 20 years ago, but I has not been driving a lot since then.
2. Are you familiar with all the traffic rules?
Yes, more or less I am familiar with them.
3. Is it easy to get a driver’s license in your country?
In my country the driver’s license has two parts: the theory and the practice, I think IT is easier to pass the theory than the practice exam.
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1. Do you have a driver’s license? If yes, how long have you been driving?
Yes, I have a motorbike and car license and I have been driving for 20 years.
2. Are you familiar with all the traffic rules?
Yes, in my city it is necessary to know the traffic rules and the traffic on the M30 is very difficult.
3. Is it easy to get a driver’s license in your country?
Yes, it only needs practice and a little study.
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1. Do you have a driver’s license? If yes, how long have you been driving?
Yes, I have been driving for 20 years.
2. Are you familiar with all the traffic rules?
Yes, in my country it is necessary to know all the traffic rules to be able to drive.
3. Is it easy to get a driver’s license in your country?
With good training and perseverance it is easy to obtain a driver’s license.
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A comma and an adverbial phrase of place are necessary here:
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