Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 17 · 2026-11-05

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 Mamjot,

I am writing to inform you about a sport that can be learnt by both of them.

I recently received your email and was very excited after knowing about your interest in sports. I used to play cricket in playground near to my house due to lack of enough time I could not continue it for longer. Now we can join the club again and start to play cricket. As I mentioned its a playground many seniour players also come to the ground. It would be great opportunity for both of us to learn with experienced players.

Most importantly, it is totally free and fun activity. I usually come from my work early evening so I can pick you from your home and go to ground to play our favorite sport cricket. It would be great playing with you once again.

Thank you so much for asking for my advice.

Yours faithfully,

Lovepreet

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

You address the main requirements by recommending cricket, explaining that you could return to the local ground and learn from experienced players, and inviting your friend to join you. The personal details about your work schedule and offering to pick your friend up make the suggestion relevant and friendly. However, the learning plan is only partly explained: you mention senior players but do not say whether they would coach you, or suggest a club, lessons, or a regular practice schedule. The opening phrase “a sport that can be learnt by both of them” is also unclear about who will learn it. The response covers the task well overall, but developing these details and making the invitation more direct would make it more complete.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.5

The email has a recognisable structure, moving from the reason for writing to your shared cricket experience and then to practical arrangements and a closing. This gives the reader a general sense of progression. However, the ideas within the second paragraph are crowded together: the shift from your past experience to the club, the playground, and experienced players would be clearer if each point were linked more explicitly. The sentence beginning “I used to play cricket” also joins two complete ideas without suitable punctuation or a linking word. Some transitions, such as “Most importantly,” do not clearly signal the relationship between the free activity and the plan to meet. Use shorter paragraphs and clearer links to improve the flow.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use enough topic vocabulary to communicate the recommendation, including “cricket,” “club,” “experienced players,” and “favorite sport.” The friendly, personal tone is also appropriate for an email to a friend. However, several word choices and collocations are noticeably inaccurate or unnatural, such as “inform you about a sport,” “playground” for a place to play cricket, and “great opportunity.” “Senior players” may also be unclear if you mean skilled or experienced players rather than older people. These choices do not prevent the reader from understanding your main message, but they limit precision and naturalness. Aim for more idiomatic phrases and check spelling, including “senior.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mixture of simple and more complex sentences, and the main message is generally understandable. Some grammatical errors remain, particularly in sentence boundaries and articles. For example, “I used to play cricket in playground near to my house due to lack of enough time I could not continue it for longer” combines several ideas without the punctuation or conjunctions needed to show their relationships. “It would be great opportunity” needs an article, and “I mentioned its a playground” needs clearer sentence construction and punctuation. The phrase “both of them” also does not clearly refer to you and your friend. Separating long sentences and checking articles, pronoun references, and punctuation would improve accuracy while preserving your attempts at complex structures.

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