Band 4.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.5 · Cambridge IELTS 19 · 2026-10-31

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

In many countries nowadays, consumers can go to a supermarket and buy food produced all over the world.

Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Student answer (Band 4.5)

Nowadays, many people can go to supermarket and buy food item all over the world, But some people buy product online. There have many adavntages and disadvantages.

Overall, I think this is positive development. Mostly people want to buy all products can go to supermarkets. They select to best product and healthy food. They cant buy all these product online, because scam are trend in market. They are no theft issue. So mostly people to prafer can go to supermarket. Good point of supermarket is all impotant things like vegitable, fruits and cosmatic thing are avalabile here.Thats a very good development in many countries.

Online development of supermarket have many faults. Online shoping not a bad development because, some online scamers do scam to peoples. Result is people can go to supermarket and buy food product here. some people can not wait here parsal and can go to supermarket.

Some reasons people can go to supermarket and buy food product because food should be imported like Appel, Orange and Avacado. Some countries importe this foods and support farmers.Transpotation cost is high but, its environmental friendly. Supermarket gave us fresh food product mostly people prefer buy this.

In conclusion, I believe that buying food from all over word is positive development. But, its have some disadvantages so some people like food about there cultures.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.0

You state a clear overall view—“I think this is positive development”—and give relevant points about choice, access to imported produce, and supporting farmers. However, the response addresses the question only minimally: several points shift to comparing supermarkets with online shopping, although the task is about the availability of food from around the world. Claims such as “its environmental friendly” and that supermarkets provide “fresh food” are not explained or supported with a specific example. The conclusion repeats your position but adds an unclear point about people preferring food from their own cultures. The response is 27 words below the required minimum, which limits the space available to develop reasons. Focus on the global-food development and explain each reason with a clear example or consequence.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 4.0

Your response has an introduction, separate body paragraphs and a conclusion, and expressions such as “Overall” and “In conclusion” help signal the structure. However, ideas are not arranged coherently enough to create a clear progression. The first body paragraph moves from product choice to online scams and theft, while the next continues the online-shopping comparison rather than developing the central issue. Connections between claims are often unclear, as in “Transportation cost is high but, its environmental friendly.” Some sentences also appear abruptly beside one another, and references such as “here” do not always make clear which place or idea they refer to. Organise the essay around two or three reasons for your view, and use linking phrases to show how each explanation supports the main argument.

Lexical Resource: Band 4.5

You use some vocabulary relevant to the topic, including “imported,” “farmers,” “transportation cost,” and “environmental friendly,” and the reader can generally identify your main subject. However, the range is basic and several words or phrases are repeated, particularly “food product” and “go to supermarket.” Frequent spelling errors—such as “adavntages,” “vegitable,” “avalabile,” and “importe”—make the writing less clear and reduce the accuracy of your vocabulary. Some word combinations are also unnatural, for example “buy food item all over the world” and “food about there cultures.” Build a more precise set of topic phrases and check spelling and collocations carefully; this will help you express your ideas without relying on repeated, general wording.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

You attempt both simple statements and longer sentences, and your overall position can usually be understood. However, grammatical errors occur frequently, and the range of sentence structures is limited. Examples include missing or incorrect articles in “go to supermarket” and “this is positive development,” subject–verb problems in “Online development … have many faults,” and incorrect forms in “They cant buy all these product.” Sentence boundaries and punctuation are also unreliable: “Overall” is followed by a comma and a capitalised “But,” while other sentences run together or begin with lowercase letters. Practise accurate basic sentence patterns first, especially articles, plurals and subject–verb agreement, then combine ideas using correctly punctuated clauses.

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