Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · Cambridge IELTS 19 · 2026-11-12

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

You are a member of an International Students' club. The club is organising an event to celebrate popular food from around the world.

Write a letter to the event organiser, Luis. In your letter

• offer to make a popular dish from your country
• describe what this dish is
• explain why it should be included in the event

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear Luis,

Student answer (Band 6.5)

Dear Luis,

I hope you are having an energetic day. As we are organising event of popular food items from around the world. I have some recommendations which I would like to share.

I have an amazing spicy dish natively known as "Misal Pav". I Offer to make the dish. It is very popular in India. This is famous for its rich history and flavours. Wide variety of indigridents are used to make the recipe. Bread is the most reccomended item with the dish.

Wherever travelling locally I always prefer to find it. In India the taste of this dish differs from each region due to minor changes in recipe. This in turn makes it more delicious and memorable and native to that place. This makes it one of the biggest reason why it is famous and liked by all the Indian people. As we have a large Indian dispora in our university this would make them remember their country. Moreover this dish is famous among European people aswell due to variety of spices used in it.

If you want more information please domt hesitate to contact me.

Best Regards,

Kunj Sheth.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

You address all three points: you offer to make Misal Pav, identify it as a popular Indian dish, and explain its appeal to both Indian and European students. The strongest development is the regional variation: “the taste of this dish differs from each region,” which helps explain why it is memorable. The point about reminding Indian students of home also gives the organiser a clear reason to include it. Some details are less fully explained, however: “a wide variety of ingredients” and serving it with bread do not tell Luis what the dish actually consists of. Briefly describing its main ingredients and how it is served would make the explanation more complete and persuasive. The friendly letter is appropriate for the purpose and recipient.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The letter has a clear overall arrangement: an opening, a paragraph introducing the dish, a paragraph explaining its appeal, and a polite closing. Ideas generally progress from your offer to the dish’s popularity and then to reasons it would suit the event. Connectors such as “Moreover” and “As” help show relationships between points. However, the opening sentence, “As we are organising event…,” is a fragment, and the transition from describing the dish to your personal travel experience is somewhat abrupt. Some references, such as “This” and “it,” require the reader to infer exactly which feature you mean. To strengthen progression, use complete opening sentences and make links between the dish’s description and its value to the event more explicit.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

You use an adequate range of vocabulary for the letter, including relevant terms such as “spicy,” “rich history,” “flavours,” “region,” and “variety of spices.” These choices communicate enthusiasm and help distinguish the dish. There are also attempts at more specific language, though some expressions are imprecise or unnatural: “popular food items” is less natural here than “popular dishes,” and “the biggest reason” is an awkward way to describe its appeal. Spelling errors such as “indigridents,” “reccomended,” and “dispora” are noticeable, even though the intended meanings remain understandable. Aim for accurate spelling and more natural collocations, and use a few precise words to describe the dish’s ingredients and flavour rather than relying on general praise.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt both simple and more complex sentence forms, including the clause “As we have a large Indian diaspora in our university, this would make them remember their country.” Most of the message remains understandable, but some grammatical errors and punctuation problems reduce control. “As we are organising event…” is an incomplete dependent clause, while “I Offer to make the dish” has an unnecessary capital letter within the sentence. In “the taste … differs from each region,” the comparison pattern is not formed accurately; use “differs from region to region.” The sentence beginning “This in turn makes it more delicious…” also needs clearer punctuation. Practise complete sentence construction, articles, and punctuation around introductory clauses while retaining your attempts at complex sentences.

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