Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-11-12

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 5.5)

Dear Sir,

I hope your doing well. I am writing this letter to suggest one of the best sport in our town which is football. I think this game is perfect for you because you are enough fit and tall fot this sport criteria, which is very beneficial in match.

You can learn this game from sport academic, which is located in my area. There one of the best mentor available for training and he is very friendly and he knows me , he should teach you very well and patiencefully.

Actually, I also think i will join with you this class and learn football game rules and regulation and do some practice which is help me in my weight loss journey. As well as you will find amazing company for learning this new skill. Afterwords we become more close and strong relation with each other.

Thank you for considering my suggestions. I hope you will find these ideas helpful, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Yours faithfuly,

Kajal

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You address all three requested points: you recommend football, explain that your friend could learn at a local sports academy, and invite them to join you. The advice is relevant, and the reason that football may suit your friend is included. However, some ideas are less fully developed than others. For example, “he should teach you” identifies a possible coach but does not explain how lessons or practice would work, and the suggestion to learn together could be made more direct and specific. The formal opening “Dear Sir” and closing “Yours faithfully” also do not fit an email to a friend. Use a friendly greeting and sign-off, and expand the practical details to make the advice more complete.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The response has a clear overall arrangement: it introduces the recommendation, explains where to learn, and then discusses learning together. Paragraph breaks help distinguish these stages, and phrases such as “Actually” and “As well as” attempt to connect ideas. This meets the basic requirement for logical organisation. To make the progression smoother, use more natural links and clearer references: “There” in “There one of the best mentor available” is vague, while “this class” appears without a clearly established class. Some sentences also combine several ideas, making the relationships between them less clear. Organising each paragraph around one main point and linking the details explicitly would make cohesion more flexible and less dependent on simple transitions.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use enough topic vocabulary to communicate the main advice, including “football,” “training,” “practice,” and “rules and regulation.” However, the range is limited, and several noticeable word-choice, collocation, word-form, and spelling errors make parts sound unnatural. Examples include “sport academic” for a sports academy, “mentor” where “coach” is more suitable, “patiencefully,” and “Afterwords.” “Best sport” and “strong relation” are also imprecise in context. These choices do not prevent the reader from understanding your main message, but they reduce clarity and naturalness. Build a small set of accurate phrases for recommending a sport, describing coaching, and arranging practice, and check spelling and word forms before submitting.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more extended sentence forms, including explanations with “because” and a sentence beginning “which.” The main message is generally understandable, but there are frequent grammatical errors, and some longer constructions are difficult to follow. For example, “I hope your doing well” has an incorrect verb form, “one of the best sport” has a number-agreement error, and “he is very friendly and he knows me, he should teach you” joins clauses incorrectly. In “which is help me,” the verb form is also faulty. Practise subject–verb agreement, verb forms, articles, and sentence boundaries. Breaking complex thoughts into shorter, correctly punctuated sentences will improve accuracy while you develop a wider range of structures.

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