Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-10-29

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 Malik,

I hope you are doing well. I am writing because I recieved your letter regarding advice about learning a new sport. I wanted to tell you that I will be grateful to help you in this matter.

To begin with, I remember both of us watching cricket together back in school days. I would recommend you to develop skills in the game of cricket. This sport is suitable for you because I believe you possess extensive knowledge of this sport and will perform well.

There several cricket academies where you can enrol and begin learning the game. My father can help you secure admission in one of his friend's academies.

I have a keen interest in playing this game and it is was already in my future plan to learn this sport. I would like to suggest that both of us can join the academy together to learn this game.

I hope to hear from you soon. Please let me know what you think.

Best wishes

Dilpreet Singh

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

You address all three points clearly: you recommend cricket, explain that Malik could enrol at an academy, and invite him to learn with you. The reference to watching cricket together at school gives the recommendation a personal basis, while your father’s connection offers a practical route to joining. The purpose and friendly tone remain clear throughout. To make the advice more fully developed, explain why cricket suits Malik beyond saying he has “extensive knowledge,” and add a little detail about how lessons or practice at the academy would work. The invitation is clear, but you could make it more direct by proposing a specific next step, such as contacting the academy together. Overall, the task is addressed with relevant, supported ideas, though some details are general.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.0

The email has a clear progression: greeting and purpose, recommendation, learning arrangements, shared participation, and a friendly closing. Paragraphing helps the reader follow each part, and phrases such as “To begin with” and “I hope to hear from you soon” suit the email’s structure. The links between ideas are generally easy to follow, including the move from Malik’s interest to the academy option. Some transitions, however, feel formulaic, and the academy paragraph is very brief compared with the recommendation. You could improve the flow by linking the practical details more explicitly—for example, explain how your father’s contact could help you both enrol and begin lessons. This would make the progression feel more consistently developed.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

Your vocabulary is adequate for a friendly email and communicates the main ideas clearly. Phrases such as “keen interest,” “secure admission,” and “extensive knowledge” show an attempt to use more specific language than basic everyday wording. However, some choices are unnatural or imprecise: “recommend you to develop skills” would be more idiomatic as “recommend that you learn” or “encourage you to develop your skills,” and “in one of his friend’s academies” needs a more natural expression such as “at an academy run by one of his friends.” There is also a spelling error in “recieved.” Aim for accurate collocations and a natural conversational register, rather than choosing formal-sounding phrases that do not quite fit.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.0

You use a mix of simple and more developed sentence forms, including the reason clause in “because I believe you possess extensive knowledge” and the relative clause in “one of his friend’s academies.” Most of the message remains understandable, but some grammatical errors are noticeable. For example, “There several cricket academies” is missing “are,” and “it is was already in my future plan” combines incompatible verb forms. In “I would like to suggest that both of us can join,” the clause structure is awkward; “I suggest that we join” is more controlled. Review subject–verb structure and verb forms, and proofread for sentence-level accuracy. Greater consistency in these areas would make your varied sentences more reliable.

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