Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-10-08

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 Darshan,

I hope everything is going well for you and your family. I am incredibly excited to know that you are planning to learn new sport during this summer break. I would recommend you to learn pickleball. Pickleball is getting getting very popular these days so it's perfect match for you.

This is extremely simple to learn and easy to remember rules. To know it's rules you can use any AI toll such as Chatgpt, Claude. You could enroll in any sports club which teach you the pickleball. David's club is well-known club for the pickleball and it's cost friendly so you don't need to worry about fees.

I am also planning to join swimming classes this summer but pickleball sounds like a good option to think. Why don't we learn together? It would be much more fun with friends and we can encourage each other when it gets difficult. Let me know what you think.

Talk to you soon!

Best wishes,

Varshil

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You address all three points: you recommend pickleball, explain that your friend could use online tools or join a club, and invite them to learn with you. The recommendation is relevant and the friendly tone suits an email to a friend. The learning advice is less fully developed, however: “use any AI tool” is vague, and the club suggestion would be more useful with practical details such as where or when lessons take place. Your invitation is clear, but the mention of your own swimming plans briefly makes your commitment to learning pickleball together less certain. Clarifying that you would choose pickleball together and adding a specific next step would make the response more complete.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The email has a clear overall arrangement: greeting and recommendation, learning options, then an invitation and sign-off. This progression makes the purpose easy to follow, and phrases such as “Why don’t we learn together?” connect naturally to the final paragraph. Some links between ideas are less smooth. For example, the shift from planning to join swimming classes to saying pickleball is a good option creates a slight inconsistency, while the club and AI suggestions are listed without much explanation of how they fit together. The repeated “getting getting” also interrupts the flow. A clearer transition and a more focused final paragraph would make cohesion more flexible and less dependent on straightforward sequencing.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use enough vocabulary to communicate the main ideas, including relevant terms such as “sports club,” “fees,” and “encourage each other.” The friendly expressions “I hope everything is going well” and “Talk to you soon” also suit the audience. However, several noticeable word-choice, collocation, spelling, and word-form problems limit precision: “perfect match” needs an article or a more natural phrase, “cost friendly” is awkward, and “AI toll” is a misspelling of “tool.” “Learn the pickleball” is also not the natural way to name the activity. These errors do not prevent understanding, but more accurate collocations and a wider range of precise expressions would strengthen the email.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You use a mix of simple sentences and more developed forms, including “Why don’t we learn together?” and the clause “when it gets difficult.” Most of the message remains understandable, but some grammatical errors recur. For example, “learn new sport” needs a determiner, “I would recommend you to learn” uses an incorrect verb pattern, and “rules” needs a clearer grammatical construction in “easy to remember rules.” There are also agreement and article problems in “club which teach you” and “a well-known club.” The sentence structures are generally straightforward, so adding accurate subordinate clauses while checking articles, agreement, and verb patterns would improve control.

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