Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

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IELTS Writing Task 1 question

The pie charts below show responses by teachers of foreign languages in Britain to a survey concerning why their students are learning a foreign language. The first chart shows the main reason for learning a foreign language. The second chart shows how many teachers felt that there has been a recent change in the reason.

Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below.

% of teachers reporting the following as most common reason for learning:

Student answer (Band 6.0)

The two pie charts illustrate the main reason of why students in britain are learning a foreign language and the percentages of teachers reporting recent change in the reason.

Overall, travel was the most common reason for learning foreign language, followed by buying property overseas and business works. However, teachers reported that recently buying properites overseas had become more significant reason, while travel has experienced a declined.

According to first pie chart, 33% of teachers identified travel as the main reason for learning foreign language, followed by business or work having 26% of responses making it the second highest reason. Buying property overseas shows 19% of respones making it third highest. Smaller respones are being given too social contracts and personal development, both at 7%. General interest shows 5% of respones while foreign partner is shows the least percentage of respones that is 3%.

The second chart shows recent increase in students learning foreign language. Buying property overseas shows 34% of respones, making it one of the highest reason of recent increase. Business or work shows 19% responses, making it he second highest after buying property overseas. Social contracts and no change shows that shows 15% of respones each. General interest reported 6%, while personal development and foriegn partner both reported 4% of respones.Travel was the least reported reason with only 3% of responses.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.0

You cover both charts and identify the main patterns: travel leads as the principal reason, while buying property overseas is the largest category for reported recent increases. Most figures are accurately reported, including the 33%, 26%, and 19% in the first chart and the 34% and 19% in the second. However, the overview says travel “has experienced a declined,” which is not quite what the second chart shows: it reports only 3% of teachers identifying a recent increase for travel, not a decline. The overview could also clarify that 15% reported no change. Some details are less clearly expressed, but the response is relevant and gives a reasonable comparison of the key features.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The report has a clear overall arrangement: an introduction and overview are followed by one paragraph for each chart. This makes the information easy to locate, and sequencing within the first chart—from the largest categories to the smallest—is generally logical. Linking phrases such as “Overall,” “followed by,” and “while” help connect comparisons. To make progression more consistently smooth, avoid repetitive sentence openings such as “shows” and “reported,” and revise the second-chart paragraph, where “Social contracts and no change shows that shows” interrupts the flow. More precise referencing would also help distinguish the chart’s reported increase from an actual change in student numbers.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant vocabulary for describing charts, including “most common reason,” “responses,” “followed by,” and “least reported,” so the meaning is generally clear. There is some useful variation in describing rankings, but several word-choice and spelling problems reduce precision: “business works” is less natural than “business or work,” “social contracts” appears to mean “social contacts,” and “properites,” “respones,” and “foriegn” are misspelled. “Buying properites overseas had become more significant reason” also uses an imprecise phrase for a survey category. Aim for accurate, consistent chart language, such as “accounted for,” “was the leading reason,” and “teachers reported an increase.”

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You use a mixture of simple statements and more developed comparisons, including “followed by business or work having 26% of responses,” and the overall meaning is usually understandable. However, some grammatical errors recur. Articles and noun forms are missing or incorrect in “learning foreign language” and “the highest reason”; the latter would be more naturally expressed as “the largest share.” There are also faulty sentence constructions, especially “Social contracts and no change shows that shows 15% of respones each,” and the final sentence of the first paragraph has an awkward structure around “foreign partner is shows.” Check subject–verb agreement, articles, and sentence boundaries, and simplify sentences when a more complex construction becomes difficult to control.

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