Band 5.5 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.5 · Cambridge IELTS 21 · 2026-10-17

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Some people say that in the digital age, theatres and cinemas are no longer important as people can watch all the entertainment they want online. Others argue that theatres and cinemas are still important both economically and culturally.

Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

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

Student answer (Band 5.5)

For entertainment, people like to watch movies either online or go to the cinemas. Most of the people beleives that we have computers, mobile phone we can easily watch cinemas online, while others argue that theaters and cinemas are still important becuase we can help our country both economically and culturally. I beleive that both the aspects are important because one can save our time and second one is good place for family and friends.

On the one hand, people want to watch cinemas online because they want to save money on transportion, food and tickets. They want to save their time, they can watch movies anywhere anytime with no hustle. For example, people who have busy life of work, they can give their family time by watching movie with their loved ones at home together. Secondly, some people like to watch movies or series alone with no distrubance, which therates have loud noise and distrubance.

On the other hand, people want to go to watch movies in cinemas and theaters because they like to see their favourite star movie first day first show. If, people come to cinema and buy tickets this will help to grow our country's economy. Fot instance, theaters pay tax to the goverment, which helps to goverment to delevop our economy. Additionally, theaters have restriction for age groups which is good for the kids and parents, so kids cannot copy the stunts from the movies.

In my opnion both views are important because people do not have time to go watch movie in theaters, they can watch at home, while people want to go for their friends and family they can go to theaters and watch movies.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

You discuss both perspectives and give a personal view, so the response addresses the main parts of the prompt. The online-view paragraph gives relevant reasons—saving transport and ticket costs, convenience, and watching without disturbance—and the cinema paragraph mentions employment-related revenue through taxes and age restrictions. However, the economic and cultural importance of theatres is not fully explored: the cultural case is largely reduced to seeing a favourite star on opening day, while the safety point about children copying stunts is not clearly connected to the task. Your opinion that both options matter is present, but its reasons are brief and partly repeat earlier points. Develop the cultural argument and explain more precisely why each option remains valuable.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.0

The response has a clear overall arrangement: an introduction, one paragraph for each view, and a concluding opinion. The signposts “On the one hand” and “On the other hand” help readers follow the comparison, and examples are placed with the relevant arguments. Some connections are less smooth, however. The introduction’s “one can save our time and second one is good place” is unclear, and the final paragraph repeats the two sides rather than drawing them together into a developed conclusion. Within the first body paragraph, several reasons are listed in sequence without showing how they relate. Use clearer references and transitions between claims, and make the conclusion synthesise your position rather than restate it.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use enough topic-related vocabulary to communicate the main ideas, including “transportation,” “tickets,” “economy,” “tax,” and “age groups.” However, the range is limited and several spelling and word-choice errors are noticeable, such as “beleives,” “becuase,” “distrubance,” and “delevop.” Some phrases are also imprecise or unnatural: “watch cinemas online” and “no hustle” do not express the intended meaning clearly in standard academic English. Repetition of “people,” “watch,” and “movies” further limits flexibility. Build a bank of accurate collocations for entertainment and cultural value, and check spelling and word forms carefully so your ideas are expressed more precisely.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more extended sentence forms, including a relative clause in “people who have busy life of work” and a conditional structure in “If people come to cinema and buy tickets…”. However, control is inconsistent, and errors sometimes make relationships between ideas difficult to follow. For example, “Most of the people believes that we have computers, mobile phone we can easily watch…” has problems with agreement, number, and sentence construction; “they can give their family time” also uses an unclear grammatical pattern. Commas are sometimes used where a full stop or conjunction is needed, as in “They want to save their time, they can watch…”. Practise building accurate complex sentences and checking agreement, articles, and sentence boundaries.

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