Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-11-07

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

Your English-speaking friend who lives in your town has asked for your advice about learning a new sport. Write an email to your friend. In your email:

• recommend a new sport that would be suitable for your friend to learn
• explain how your friend could learn this sport
• suggest that you both learn this sport together

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear ....................................,

 

Student answer (Band 6.0)

Dear Robert,

I hope you are doing well. The purpose of this letter to suggest you sport that you were looking to learn some new activity. There are several sports activities but I would recommend you to learn cricket. Cricket is one of the sports, focuses on high level of fitness, both physical and mental fitness. You can develop your career as a professional criketer, with this profession you can get fame all over the world,as it is played in many parts of the world and earning is also very high in this sports.

There are many clubs and acadamies in our town and near to the town, where you can get admission and learn Cricket. One of the acadamy which is in our town runs under the supervision of well cricketers who are retired from the international cricket.

I am also planing to start learning this sport and it would be better for both of us to learn togather.

Your faithfully,

Zahid Shah

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You address all three points: cricket is recommended, local clubs and an academy are mentioned as ways to learn, and you invite your friend to learn with you. The reason that cricket supports fitness and the detail about retired international players add relevant support. However, the learning advice is less fully developed than the recommendation: you could explain how to enrol, what beginners would practise, or when lessons take place. The career and earnings claims also take space without being closely tailored to Robert’s needs. The friendly purpose is clear, but a more personal explanation of why cricket suits him would make the advice more complete and persuasive.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The email has a clear overall arrangement: it opens with the recommendation, moves to where Robert can learn, and ends by suggesting that you join him. Paragraphing helps distinguish these points, and phrases such as “There are many clubs” signal a shift to practical advice. Some connections are less smooth, however. The opening sentence is awkwardly constructed, and the long sentence about fitness, a professional career, fame, and earnings combines several ideas without clear progression. The final invitation is relevant but abrupt. Use shorter sentences to separate reasons from practical details, and add a natural transition into the shared-learning suggestion to make the progression more fluent.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use enough topic vocabulary to communicate the main ideas, including “professional,” “supervision,” “international cricket,” and “physical and mental fitness.” These choices show some range beyond basic sport-related words. However, several spelling and word-choice errors are noticeable, such as “criketer,” “acadamies,” and “togather,” while phrases like “sports activities” and “earning is also very high in this sports” are imprecise or unnatural. “Well cricketers” is also unclear. These issues do not prevent the reader from understanding the message, but they limit precision and naturalness. Check spelling carefully and learn common collocations such as “join a cricket academy” and “earn a high income.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more extended sentence forms, and the reader can generally follow your meaning. However, control is uneven, particularly in longer sentences. For example, “The purpose of this letter to suggest you sport” is missing a verb and has an incomplete structure; “I am also planing to start learning” uses an incorrect verb form; and “one of the acadamy which … runs” has problems with the noun phrase and relative clause. There are also errors in articles, agreement, and punctuation, as in “in this sports” and the comma spacing in “world,as.” Aim to build accurate sentences first, then combine related ideas using clauses and conjunctions.

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