Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-10-13

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 Jon,

How is everything! I got your letter in which you were asking for advice about learning a new sport in our town.

A cricket club is recently opened near the community centre. I think that would be suitable for you. People rarely play this sport in you nation, however, this is quite popular and amusing game in here. It is not only beneficial for body strength but also for speed as players need to run a lot in it. I believe you will be delighted by playing this sport.

The club has many professionals, who can help you to teach cricket. I have heard the one of the person was a coach for Indian team. How wonderful it would be to learn from such individual. Rules are not hard to learn, it will take maximum two to three days to understand.

I am thinking to join the club with you, although I have never played cricket in my life. Since you are asking for the sport, it changed my mind to switch from basketball to cricket. This would be great for both of use to enjoy quality time.

Let me know if you are interested. I will geather all the information in the mean time about the club.

Regards,

M

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.5

You address all three points clearly: you recommend cricket, explain that the club’s professionals can teach it, and invite Jon to join you. The advice is relevant and supported with reasons, such as cricket being popular locally and offering exercise through running. The personal detail that you would switch from basketball also makes the invitation engaging. To strengthen the response further, develop the practical learning advice: for example, mention how to contact the club, attend a beginner session, or borrow equipment. The claim that the rules take only two or three days is quite definite and would be more convincing if qualified or explained. Overall, the purpose and friendly tone are clear throughout.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.0

The email has a clear progression: you respond to Jon’s request, recommend a sport, describe instruction at the club, and finish by proposing that you join together. Separate paragraphs help the reader follow these stages, and phrases such as “however,” “although,” and “Since” connect ideas. The closing invitation and request for a reply are appropriate. Some links are less smooth or precise, particularly “although I have never played cricket” followed by “Since you are asking for the sport,” where the relationship between the ideas is not fully clear. A few sentences also feel abrupt, such as the statement about the coach. Use more explicit transitions to show how each detail supports your recommendation.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

Your vocabulary is adequate for this friendly email, and you use some relevant topic language, including “community centre,” “professionals,” “coach,” and “quality time.” These choices make the recommendation understandable. You also attempt more expressive wording, such as “delighted” and “beneficial,” though some combinations are not natural in context: “amusing game” and “beneficial for body strength” could be expressed more idiomatically. There are also spelling and word-choice slips, including “geather” and “use” where you mean “us.” Aim for accurate, natural collocations rather than adding formal-sounding words; this will make your advice sound more fluent and convincing.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use a mix of simple and more complex sentence forms, including contrast and reason clauses: “although I have never played cricket” and “as players need to run a lot.” Most of the message remains understandable, but some grammatical errors occur. For example, “A cricket club is recently opened” needs a more suitable tense, and “the one of the person was a coach” has problems with article use and sentence structure. In “Rules are not hard to learn, it will take…,” two independent clauses are joined with a comma. Review tense choice, articles, and sentence boundaries, and check agreement and pronouns in phrases such as “both of use.” More consistent accuracy would make the varied structures easier to follow.

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