noun · neutral
drone
UK/drəʊn/US/droʊn/DRONE
Band 7+speakingtask2
an unmanned aircraft controlled remotely or autonomously, often used for photography, delivery or surveillance
Examples
“Farmers use drones to monitor crop health from the air.”
“Delivery companies are testing drones for last-mile drops.”
“In the speaking test I mentioned that a drone helped survey local floods.”
Band 8 sentence
“In recent years municipal authorities have deployed drones to map flood damage quickly and at low cost.”
Collocations
- fly a drone
- commercial drone
- drone delivery
Word family
drones noun (plural)
Common mistakes
robot→drone
fly a robot→fly a drone
Say it for a higher band
5robot→6unmanned vehicle→7+drone
Synonyms
UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)
Easily confused
robot
“The drone flew over the field while the ground robot collected soil samples.”
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