Band 4.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 4.5 · Cambridge IELTS 19 · 2026-10-06

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 4.5)

Dear Luis,

I writeing a letter to related event.I am member of international students club so i sugest we trye to make a popular dish in italien dish because it is famous all world.

I recomend italian pizza.It is one of italian famous dish. it parpare many mathed or many flavores.

Teenagers realy like this dish.i aspacts(hope) you are acsapted my request and you are add this dish .

your fathfull,

sukhdeep

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 4.0

The response responds to the task only minimally and fails to meet the required word count minimum of 150 words, stopping well short at just 72 words. While the writer attempts to cover the prompt by offering to make a dish, describing it briefly, and mentioning why teenagers like it, the ideas are severely limited and under-developed due to the lack of length and elaboration. To achieve a higher band, the response must fully develop all parts of the prompt with extended explanations and meet the minimum word count requirement.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

There is some basic organisation in the letter, beginning with a standard greeting and touching upon the required points sequentially, but there is no clear overall progression. Paragraphing is highly irregular and inadequate, with improper spacing and a disjointed structure that fails to group ideas logically. Cohesive devices are largely absent or mechanical, relying on simple juxtaposition rather than effective linking words or clear referencing. To improve, the writer needs to organise the text into proper paragraphs, use a wider variety of cohesive links, and ensure a logical flow of ideas from start to finish.

Lexical Resource: Band 4.5

The vocabulary used is very basic and repetitive, employing simple words like 'make', 'popular', and 'dish' throughout the response. There are noticeable lexical errors, such as 'italien dish' and 'mathed', along with frequent spelling mistakes like 'writeing', 'sugest', 'trye', 'parpare', 'flavores', 'realy', 'aspacts', 'acsapted', and 'fathfull', which strain the reader and reveal a limited control of word forms and spelling. To move up to a higher band, the student must expand their vocabulary range, use less common lexical items accurately, and carefully check their spelling.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 4.5

The grammar demonstrates a very limited range of structures, consisting almost entirely of simple sentences with frequent errors that distort meaning. There are fundamental errors in verb forms and tenses, such as 'I writeing a letter' instead of 'I am writing', and severe issues with subject-verb agreement and prepositions, such as 'popular dish in italien dish'. Punctuation is also poorly handled, with missing spaces after periods and commas. To reach a higher band, the writer needs to produce error-free simple sentences and attempt a mix of accurate complex sentence forms.

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