Band 5.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 5.0 · Cambridge IELTS 13 · 2026-11-11

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

Living in a country where you have to speak a foreign language can cause serious social problems, as well as practical problems.

To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

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

Student answer (Band 5.0)

The issue of speaking a foreign language has become a subject of considerable debate in modern society. While living in a country where individual have to speak a foreign language can cause serious social and practical problems. Although a lot of people disagree with it but I think it's hard to survive in a country in which people don't understand language.

To begin with, language is a way to talk and express our feelings with others. If a person live in a country where he don't know the local language so he may face a lot of problems while talking to others and also can't get a good job there. Moreover, the life will become tough and individual will feel lonliness and get depressed when finding himself alone in the bad situation because he can't share his feelings with anyone there. For example, many people who travl abroad face many social and practical problems because they have a language barrier.

Furthermore, there are some benefits involved too if a person don't know foreign language that during working hours no one bother him and distract his attention from work and they perform more better work then others. For example, many field workers from other countries perform excellent duties as compared to the local workers because there intentions are to work for their family instead of spending time while talking to others.

To put in a nutshell, I sum up saying that people must need to learn foreigh language while traveling to abroad because without language they can't talk to the local people there and don't get a chance to get a good job because of language barrier. I completely agree that language is important to survive in anothr country and without language people face many problems and the companies prioties the person with a good grip on langauge.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 5.5

Your position is ultimately clear: you agree that limited ability in the local language creates serious difficulties, especially in communication, employment, and social wellbeing. The examples of feeling isolated and facing a language barrier are relevant to the question. However, the response addresses the task only partially because the second body paragraph shifts to an unclear benefit—workers supposedly perform better when nobody talks to them—and does not explain how this relates to the statement about serious problems. The conclusion repeats your main view rather than adding support, and the practical and social problems could be developed with more specific explanation or an example. Keep the discussion focused on the extent of your agreement and support each main point consistently.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 5.0

The response has a recognisable structure, with an introduction, two body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Paragraphs generally group related points, and signposts such as “To begin with” and “Furthermore” help show the intended sequence. However, progression is not consistently clear: the second body paragraph introduces a supposed benefit that conflicts with your overall position and is not linked convincingly to the question. Some connections are also mechanical or unclear, as in “Although a lot of people disagree with it but I think…”. The conclusion repeats ideas from the introduction and body paragraphs. To improve, make each paragraph advance one clear reason, use linking expressions only where the relationship is logical, and connect examples explicitly to the point they illustrate.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.0

You use some relevant topic vocabulary, including “language barrier,” “social problems,” “local language,” and “get a good job,” so the main ideas are generally understandable. However, the range is limited and several expressions are repetitive or imprecise, particularly repeated references to problems and language. There are noticeable spelling errors, including “lonliness,” “travl,” “foreigh,” “anothr,” and “prioties,” which reduce accuracy. Some word combinations are also unnatural, such as “perform more better work” and “a good grip on langauge.” Aim to use a wider set of accurate terms for communication, isolation, employment, and integration, and check spelling and collocations carefully.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.0

You attempt both simple and more complex sentences, including conditional structures such as “If a person live in a country…” and a reason clause beginning “because.” However, complex attempts are often faulty, and frequent errors in agreement, verb forms, articles, and sentence construction sometimes make the meaning harder to follow. Examples include “individual have to speak,” “a person live,” “he don't know,” and “people must need to learn.” The opening also contains a sentence fragment: “While living in a country where individual have to speak a foreign language can cause…” Work on forming complete sentences and checking subject–verb agreement and auxiliary verbs. More accurate control of these basics, alongside varied sentence patterns, would make your argument clearer.

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