Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · 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 6.0)

Dear Jhon,

Hope you find this letter in radiant health and best of spirit. I have got you letter a few days ago but due to my exam I was not able to send you reply.

Through your letter I get to know that you are now interested in learning a new sport and ask for my suggestion. In my point of view, you are a good sportperson and also have a good height. So, I would recommend you to try basket ball. You are fit for the sport.

I know a very famous basket ball institute in our area named "Ontario Basket Ball Club". This one has 5 star rating on online. Many well trained trainers helped their students and guied them very carefully. And the place also occupied with well equipments.

One of my friends is also joined this club last month and shared his experience with me and he encouraged me to join this club as well. If you want, we can start this senssion in together.

Feel free to share your thoughts with me. I will be waiting for your response.

Sincerely yours,

Dolan Chanda

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You address all three requested points: you recommend basketball, name a local club as a way to learn, and invite your friend to join you. The advice is relevant and the friendly purpose is clear. The recommendation is supported by your friend’s fitness and height, while the club’s trainers and equipment provide useful practical detail. However, some points are not fully developed: explain more specifically how your friend could enrol or what lessons involve, and make the shared-learning invitation clearer than “we can start this senssion in together.” The opening and closing suit an email to a friend, although “Sincerely yours” is rather formal for this relationship. More precise development of the learning plan and invitation would strengthen the response.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The email has a clear overall arrangement: you explain why you are writing, recommend a sport, describe a club, and finish by inviting your friend to join you. Paragraph breaks help distinguish these stages, and phrases such as “Through your letter” and “If you want” guide the reader through the message. Some connections are less smooth or clear, however. “This one” does not clearly identify the club, and the transition from your friend’s suitability for basketball to the institute could be more direct. The final invitation is also difficult to follow because “start this senssion in together” is unclear. Use more precise references and link the club information explicitly to how you and your friend could begin learning.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use enough topic-related vocabulary to communicate the main advice, including “sportperson,” “trainers,” “students,” and “equipment,” and you attempt some less common expressions such as “radiant health.” However, several word choices, collocations, and spelling errors make the email sound unnatural: “in radiant health and best of spirit,” “5 star rating on online,” “well trained,” and “guied” are examples. “Basket ball” is also normally written as one word, “basketball.” These issues do not prevent the reader from understanding your main message, but they limit precision and naturalness. Aim for familiar, accurate phrases such as “I hope you’re doing well” and “highly rated online,” and check spelling and compound-word forms carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You use a mixture of simple sentences and longer structures, including “I have got you letter a few days ago but due to my exam I was not able to send you reply.” The main message remains understandable, but some grammatical errors recur. For example, “I have got you letter” needs a possessive determiner and a tense suited to a completed past event; “I get to know” should be adjusted to match the past context; and “One of my friends is also joined” has an incorrect verb construction. Articles and sentence structure also need attention in “I will be waiting for your response” and the club description. Practise accurate past-tense forms, verb patterns, and articles, while retaining your attempts to combine ideas in longer sentences.

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