Cars and Driving

Vocabulary:

Learner’s Permit - a restricted license that is given to a person who is learning to drive

Driver’s License - a document permitting a person to drive a motor vehicle

Manual Transmission/ Shift - Stick Shift; requires the driver to operate the gear stick and clutch in order to change gears and move faster or slower.

Automatic Transmission/ Shift - a multi-speed transmission used in motor vehicles that does not require any input from the driver to change forward gears under normal driving conditions

Hybrid - a thing made by combining two different elements; a mixture

Questions:

1. How old were you when you got your learner’s permit and first learned to drive a car?
2. How long is the validity of your driver’s license?
3. What are the pros and cons of driving a car?
4. Are you a good driver?
5. Have you ever been in a car accident?
6. Have you ever been pulled over by the traffic police? Tell me what happened.
7. How often do you take your car for maintenance check?
8. Do you drive both a manual shift car and an automatic shift car?
9. Have you driven a car in a foreign country?
10. What kind of laws do you have about drunk driving?
11. Are men better drivers than women? Why of why not?
12. What are the things you consider when buying a car?
13. Would you consider having a hybrid car or an electric car? Why or why not?