Band 6.5 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.5 · Cambridge IELTS 19 · 2026-10-27

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 Duis,

I am writing to express my interest to taking part in the event about the famous foods around the world.

I am offering you to show my cooking skills by making my favourite dish, which I learned from my grand mother, while i used to help her to cook this food.

I want to cook Saag a punjabi dish famous for its sophisiticated recipe. The dish made from a lot of spinach and mustard leaves, which makes it high in iron and vitamin K. This dish is eaten with chappati (a bread made of maize flour ) and it tastes spicey and salty.

I want to represent my culture and i am pretty sure that everyone will like it. I will explain how beneficial for health to patients, who have iron deficiency in their body. I hope you will consider my offer.

I look to your prompt reply.

Yours sincerely,

Gurdial Singh

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

You address all three points clearly: you offer to prepare a dish, identify it as Saag, and explain its cultural and nutritional value. The description of spinach and mustard leaves, and serving it with chapati, gives the organiser useful information. Your reasons—that it represents your culture and contains iron—are relevant, although the health benefit is developed more than the dish’s appeal to a diverse audience. The claim that “everyone will like it” is rather general; a specific reason, such as its distinctive flavour or its value as an introduction to Punjabi cuisine, would support your case more convincingly. Overall, the purpose and your offer remain clear throughout.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The letter follows a sensible progression: you introduce your interest, make the offer, describe the dish, and give reasons for including it before closing. Paragraphing helps separate the description from your justification, and links such as “which” and “I hope” make the relationships between ideas understandable. Some connections are less smooth, however: the sentence about learning the dish from your grandmother is attached awkwardly to the offer, and the shift from cultural representation to health benefits could be signposted more clearly. The closing “I look to your prompt reply” also feels abrupt. More natural transitions and a clearer link between each reason would make the organisation more consistently fluent.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.0

Your vocabulary is adequate for the letter and includes some topic-specific language, such as “spinach,” “mustard leaves,” “iron deficiency,” and “represent my culture.” These choices help explain the dish and its significance. You also attempt more descriptive wording in “sophisiticated recipe,” but spelling and collocation errors reduce precision; “sophisticated recipe” is not the most natural description here. Other choices, including “famous foods” and “show my cooking skills,” are understandable but less idiomatic in this context. Improve accuracy with conventional food and event expressions, and choose precise wording for taste and cultural value. These refinements would make your message sound more natural without requiring a much wider vocabulary.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You use a mixture of simple and more complex structures, including a relative clause in “which I learned from my grandmother” and a clause explaining the dish’s ingredients. The main message is generally understandable, but some grammatical errors remain. For example, “interest to taking part” needs a different verb pattern, and “The dish made from” is missing a form of “be.” The sentence “I will explain how beneficial for health to patients” also has an incomplete structure. Capitalisation and punctuation are inconsistent, as in lowercase “i” and the spacing before the closing parenthesis. Practise accurate verb patterns and complete clause structures, then proofread for sentence boundaries and capital letters.

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