Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-09-16

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 6.5)

Dear Priya,

I hope you are in the pink of health! As we know that nowadays people are very intrested in sports to maintain there better health. There are lots of sports academy in my town but the most popular sport is football that I personally like. I would also suggest you to join that.

However, there are palenty of football academy near your house but the most famous is Anytime Football Club. You can join this academy its not that much expensive as well as the staff is very coperative. Firstly, they will provide you all nesessary guidence regarding the sports.

I was also thinking to join the football academy it will be perfect if we both join. It can be very helpful for both of us by supporting each other as well as we can spend some more time together. So, instead of staying at home and wasting time on mobile phones we can do something good for our health.

I really encourage you to join this sport.

With love,

Manpreet

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 7.0

The response covers all three bullet points required in the prompt. You successfully recommended a new sport by suggesting football and mentioning the Anytime Football Club. You explained how your friend could learn this sport by noting that the academy provides necessary guidance and is not too expensive. Furthermore, you suggested that you both learn this sport together, highlighting the mutual benefits and social aspect. The tone is appropriately informal and friendly throughout, suitable for an email to an English-speaking friend. All parts of the task are adequately addressed, earning a solid band score for this criterion.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 6.5

The letter is organised logically with clear paragraphing, moving smoothly from the greeting and recommendation to learning details, and finally to the joint proposal and sign-off. Cohesive devices are used reasonably well, such as 'However', 'Firstly', and 'So'. However, some referencing is slightly clunky, for example, 'that I personally like' or 'the football academy it will be perfect', which interrupts the natural flow slightly. Overall progression is clear, and the structure fits the informal email format well.

Lexical Resource — Band 6.0

You attempt some less common vocabulary, such as 'in the pink of health' and 'cooperative', which shows an ambition to use a varied range of language. However, there are several lexical and spelling errors that detract from precision, including 'intrested' instead of interested, 'there' instead of their, 'palenty' instead of plenty, and 'nesessary guidence' instead of necessary guidance. Despite these mistakes, the vocabulary is adequate to convey your message clearly without impeding communication.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 6.0

The response demonstrates a mix of simple and complex sentence structures, such as conditional and relative clauses. There are, however, several grammatical errors throughout the text. Examples include punctuation and run-on issues like 'You can join this academy its not that much expensive' (missing punctuation/conjunction) and article omission in 'join this sport'. Subject-verb agreement and spelling slips also occur. While these errors are noticeable, they rarely impede overall communication, placing the writing comfortably at a Band 6.0 level.

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