Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-11-08

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 Justin,

I appreciate your efforts towards learning a new sport. I would highly recommend Cricket for you , as you love outdoor sports more then indoorgames thus Cricket is a good option for you. This is a team sport where I would love to accompany you , we both can learn and could enchance our skills with the rest of the team players.I recently came across an advertisement where " The Union Club" is providing training session for five days in a week , where you can learn from base of Cricket with all rules and regulation's to playing matches across the clubs.

I hope you consider the oppourtunity as there will be Sir Sunil Gavsakar our coach for each training session and it is a huge opportunity to learn under his guidance.

Indeed! I appreciate your interest in encountering new sports to keep yourself fit. See you in field partner.

Thankyou.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You address all three requested points: cricket is recommended, the Union Club’s training is presented as a way to learn, and you express interest in joining your friend. The personal details, including the coach and your friend’s preference for outdoor sports, make the advice relevant. The recommendation and invitation are clear, but the learning plan is less fully explained: you mention five training sessions a week and learning rules, yet do not say how your friend could enrol or what to expect as a beginner. The closing also suggests meeting on the field without making the shared-learning proposal as explicit as it could be. More specific practical details and a direct invitation would strengthen the response.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The email follows a broadly sensible order: recommendation, training information, encouragement, and a friendly closing. However, most of the content is packed into one long paragraph, so the shift from explaining the sport to describing the club is not clearly signposted. Several ideas are joined with commas or repeated “where” clauses, making the progression feel crowded; for example, the sentence about the advertisement combines the club, schedule, instruction, and matches. The final “Indeed!” also does not connect naturally to the preceding point. Use two or three short paragraphs and clearer links such as “To get started” and “Would you like to join me?” to make the message easier to follow.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant vocabulary for the topic, including “team sport,” “training session,” “rules and regulations,” and “guidance,” and the friendly tone suits an email to a friend. There is some variety, but several word choices and collocations are inaccurate or unnatural, such as “efforts towards learning,” “learn from base of Cricket,” and “encountering new sports.” Spelling errors in “enhance,” “opportunity,” and “Gavaskar” also reduce accuracy. Capitalisation is inconsistent in “Cricket,” and “indoorgames” is not written as a standard compound. Aim for natural phrases such as “learn the basics of cricket” and check spelling and word forms carefully; this would make your meaning more precise and fluent.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex sentences, including a reason clause with “as” and a relative clause beginning “where.” The main message remains understandable, but some sentence structures are awkward or incomplete. For example, “This is a team sport where I would love to accompany you” does not clearly express the intended invitation, and the long sentence about the advertisement joins several clauses without clear grammatical boundaries. There are also errors in comparison and agreement, as in “more then indoorgames,” and punctuation spacing is inconsistent. Use shorter, complete sentences to explain the training arrangement, and form the invitation directly—for example, “I’d love to learn alongside you.” Review clause structure, commas, and sentence boundaries.

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