Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-09-17

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 Joban,

I hope you are doing well. I am writing this mail to advice you. i really appericiate you want to learn new sport. So, i have many options in the games. Those are really fantastic and crucial for us. Becase nowadays, we spend our all time on mobile phones. Furthermore, physical activies are helpful to keep health themselves.

I would like to recommended you badminton, because it is easy sport to learn and no need to many things to play this sport. I played this sport in my childhood. I have a knowledge about this sport. Moreover, my dad's friend is badminton coach.They have their own academy and in their academy there are couple of badminton courts.They will teach us how to play badminton. I will also learn about this game. Tommorrow we can go to their academy and fill the form and start learning together.

Thanks for asking my advice.

Warm regards

Jaspreet

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response — Band 6.5

The response successfully covers all the bullet points outlined in the prompt. You clearly recommended badminton, explained how to learn it through your dad's friend's academy, and suggested that you both learn together starting tomorrow. The tone is appropriate for an informal email to a friend. However, some of your supporting ideas are slightly repetitive and under-developed, particularly when discussing the general benefits of sports rather than focusing solely on your friend's request. To reach a higher band, ensure all extended ideas directly serve the development of the main task requirements.

Coherence and Cohesion — Band 6.0

Your letter has a clear overall progression and follows the logical structure of an informal email, beginning with appropriate greetings and closing with a warm sign-off. You make use of basic cohesive devices such as 'Furthermore' and 'Moreover'. However, paragraphing is somewhat problematic; the body of the letter is compressed into one large paragraph despite covering multiple distinct points (the recommendation, the background, and the plan for tomorrow). Additionally, referencing is occasionally unclear, such as the pronoun use in 'keep health themselves'. Organizing your writing into distinct paragraphs for each idea would improve your score.

Lexical Resource — Band 6.0

You demonstrate an adequate vocabulary to communicate your message about learning badminton. You use some less common phrases like 'crucial for us' and 'physical activies'. However, there are numerous spelling and word-choice errors throughout the text, such as 'advice' instead of 'advise', 'appericiate' instead of 'appreciate', 'Tommorrow', and 'fill the form'. Furthermore, collocations like 'keep health themselves' are unnatural. These lexical errors and spelling mistakes occasionally detract from the clarity of your writing, placing your performance firmly within the Band 6 range.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy — Band 5.5

You attempt a mix of simple and complex sentence structures, such as conditional or causal relationships ('because nowadays, we spend our all time on mobile phones'). There are frequent grammatical and punctuation errors throughout the text, including missing articles ('is badminton coach'), incorrect verb forms ('want to learn new sport' instead of 'want to learn a new sport'), and punctuation errors like missing spaces after commas. While these errors do not completely impede communication, they occur with enough frequency to prevent you from achieving a higher band score.

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