Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

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

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 Jack,

How are you? Its been ages since we met. I really feel delighted that you asked for my advice for learning a new sport.

We have spent five years together and know each others very closely. I heard many time that you wanted to learn swimming, since your childhood but didnot got a chance. I would recommend you to learn swimming and live your dream.

As you moved to Edmonton, and living near Rec centre on 17 street NW. I would suggest you to join classes at Rec centre. This place is cost-efficient and on walking distance from your house. You could also request for a personal trainer, to train you perdonally at an initial stage.

I could also offer you one more thing, I am also looking for a partner for sport for last two months. I am also desperate to learn swimming, and I would love to join you. I believe, we could learn together easily and motivate each other in hard time.

I hope my advice will help you to chosing right sport and waiting for your response.

Regards,

Kamal

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.5

You address all three requirements clearly: you recommend swimming, explain that Jack could take classes at the Rec Centre and request a personal trainer, and invite him to learn with you. The advice is relevant and supported with personal context, such as his childhood interest and the centre’s proximity to his home. Your friendly tone and clear purpose suit an email to a friend. To make the response more fully developed, add practical detail about what the classes involve or how you could arrange to attend together. The closing also becomes slightly unclear in “help you to chosing right sport and waiting for your response”; a more direct final sentence would make your message’s purpose and next step clearer.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.0

The email has a clear progression: greeting and context, recommendation, learning options, an invitation to join you, and a closing. Paragraphing helps the reader follow these stages, and links such as “I would recommend” and “I could also offer you” signal the purpose of each section. The personal details also connect the advice to Jack. Some transitions and references are less smooth, however. “As you moved to Edmonton, and living near…” does not form a clear connection between the move and the recommendation, while “one more thing” is a rather general transition. Use more precise links and make the final paragraph lead naturally into a clear request or question.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use enough vocabulary to communicate the main advice, including relevant terms such as “swimming,” “classes,” “personal trainer,” and “motivate.” The friendly register is generally appropriate. However, several noticeable word-choice, collocation, spelling, and word-form problems limit precision: “advice for learning,” “cost-efficient,” “on walking distance,” and “desperate to learn” are not natural choices in these contexts. There are also misspellings or incorrect forms such as “didnot” and “perdonally.” These do not prevent the reader from understanding your main points, but they make the email less fluent. Build a bank of natural phrases for giving advice and describing location, and check spelling and word forms carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mix of simple and more complex sentences, including “I heard many time that you wanted to learn swimming, since your childhood but didnot got a chance.” The message remains understandable overall, but errors in verb forms, tense, agreement, articles, and sentence construction occur across the email. For example, “Its been ages” needs an apostrophe and a present-perfect form; “didnot got” has an incorrect auxiliary construction; and “As you moved to Edmonton, and living near…” is not a complete, well-formed clause. The closing, “I hope my advice will help you to chosing… and waiting,” also mixes verb forms. Practise accurate present-perfect and past-tense forms, and revise each sentence for a complete grammatical structure.

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