Learner Drivers Still Wait Months for Driving Tests
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Many people want to learn to drive. They must pass a test first. But now people wait a long time for a test.
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency is a group. It looks after driving tests in the UK. People call it the DVSA.
The DVSA had a target. A target is a goal you want to reach. The goal was to make people wait only seven weeks for a test.
But many learner drivers still wait many months. They do not wait just seven weeks.
This is a problem for young people. They want to drive to work or school. They cannot get a test soon.
The DVSA has not reached its goal yet. People are still waiting a long time to book their driving test.
Vocabulary15 words
- learner driver
- a person who is learning to drive
- test
- a check to see if you can do something well
- target
- a goal you want to reach
- wait
- to stay until something happens
- agency
- a group that does special work for the government
- book
- to arrange a time for something
- average
- a normal or typical amount
- reduce
- to make smaller
- month
- a period of about four weeks
- week
- a period of seven days
- goal
- something you want to achieve
- problem
- something difficult or bad
- still
- continuing until now
- forced
- made to do something
- government
- the group that runs a country
Quiz
Answer key
1. A driving test 2. Seven weeks 3. No
Fill-in-the-blank listening
Play the audio again and fill in the missing words as you listen.
Many people want to learn to drive. They must pass a _____ first. But now people wait a long time for a test.
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency is a group. It looks after driving tests in the UK. People call it the _____.
The DVSA had a _____. A target is a goal you want to reach. The goal was to make people wait only seven _____ for a test.
But many learner drivers still wait many _____. They do not wait just seven weeks.
This is a problem for young people. They want to drive to work or school. They cannot get a test _____.
The DVSA has not reached its goal yet. People are still _____ a long time to book their driving test.
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