Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-10-09

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 Rahul,

I hope this email finds you in good sprits. I have read your message yesterday and want to suggest a activity that you should learn in your lesuire time.

Every weekend, I go to recreational centre near my house with my family. There are a lot of activities that they offer. However, I ususally go with swimming because its is actually a refreshing activity. Not only it will help you with loosing weight but also its a great sport for cardio-vascular system.

Either you could join me on weekends or you could take swim classes on any day of your choice from them. Also, I must suggest you buy swim glasses and nose plugs so that it can actually help you do better. The recreation centre also offers safety vest that you can put on to learn and adapt quicky. If you would like to join me on coming weekend, Please let me know and I would be happy to help you out with that.

Best wishes,

Dhruv

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

You address all three points: swimming is recommended, you explain that Rahul can join weekend sessions or take classes at the recreation centre, and you invite him to learn with you. The reasons—fitness and cardiovascular benefits—also support your recommendation, while the safety equipment advice adds useful detail. This gives the email a clear purpose and develops the main suggestion. To make the ideas more fully supported, explain briefly why swimming suits Rahul in particular, or add a practical detail about how to enrol or what a beginner’s first lesson involves. The invitation is clear, though the learning advice could be more specific.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The email follows a sensible progression from greeting and recommendation to benefits, learning options, and an invitation. Paragraphing helps separate these stages, and phrases such as “However,” “Either,” and “Also” guide the reader through the advice. The overall arrangement is coherent, but some links feel mechanical or do not express the relationship precisely: “However” does not clearly contrast with the previous sentence, and “Either” introduces options without a fully parallel construction. The reference in “from them” is also slightly unclear. Use more natural transitions and make the two learning options grammatically parallel to strengthen the flow.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range for a friendly email, including relevant terms such as “recreational centre,” “cardio-vascular system,” “swim classes,” and “safety vest.” These choices make the recommendation understandable, and the tone is generally appropriate. However, some spelling and word-choice errors reduce precision, including “sprits,” “lesuire,” “ususally,” and “quicky.” There are also awkward combinations such as “go with swimming” and “swim glasses”; more natural phrasing would be “go swimming” and “swimming goggles.” Aim to check spelling carefully and choose common collocations, while retaining the useful sport-related vocabulary you already use.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use a mix of simple and more complex forms, including the “Not only … but also …” construction and conditional phrasing in “If you would like to join me…”. The message remains clear despite some grammatical errors. For example, “I have read your message yesterday” combines the present perfect with a finished past-time reference; use the simple past. In “a activity,” the article should agree with the following vowel sound, and “because its is” contains an unnecessary verb form. The sentence beginning “Not only” also needs inversion (“Not only will it help…”). Review articles, tense choice, and clause structure to improve accuracy while continuing to vary your sentences.

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