Band 7.0 IELTS Writing Task 1 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 7.0 · Cambridge IELTS 13 · 2026-11-13

IELTS Writing Task 1 question

You recently organised an all-day meeting for your company, which took place in a local hotel. In their feedback, participants at the meeting said that they liked the hotel, but they were unhappy about the food that was served for lunch.

Write a letter to the manager of the hotel. In your letter

• say what the participants liked about the hotel
• explain why they were unhappy about the food
• suggest what the manager should do to improve the food in future

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear Sir or Madam,

Student answer (Band 7.0)

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing to express my appreciation for excellent services and facilities provided by your hotel during the all-day business meeting organised by our company last week. However, I would also like to bring to your attention some conerns raised by the participants regarding the lunch arrangements.

To begin with, the participants were impressed by the spacious conference meeting room and other amenities. They also appreciated the friendly and helpful staff, who ensured everything ran smoothly throughout the meeting.

However, several attendees were disappointed with the lunch provided. The food was served cold, lacked varieties and offered very few vegetarian options.

I would recommend by adding increased number of vegetarian options, the hotel can improve its service and provide welcoming experience to each and every guest. Also, guests would also love to give optimistic ratings and reviews to the hotel if they gets freshly prepared and hot meals.

I hope you will consider these suggestions and take necessary steps to improve it.

Yours faithfully,

Abhishek.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 7.0

The letter addresses all three points and maintains a suitable formal purpose. You identify what participants liked—the spacious meeting room, amenities, and helpful staff—and explain their dissatisfaction with cold food, limited variety, and few vegetarian choices. You also offer practical suggestions, including more vegetarian options and freshly prepared hot meals. These details make the response relevant and clear. To strengthen the development further, explain briefly how the hotel could provide greater variety or accommodate dietary needs, rather than relying mainly on general recommendations. The request for the manager to take action is clear, though a more specific closing proposal would make the suggested improvements more fully supported.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 7.5

The information is organised in a clear sequence: appreciation, positive feedback, the lunch problem, and recommendations. Paragraphing helps distinguish these functions, while transitions such as “To begin with,” “However,” and “Also” guide the reader through the letter. The overall progression is easy to follow and the formal opening and closing suit the purpose. Some linking is less smooth within the recommendation paragraph: “Also” is repeated in “Also, guests would also love,” and the two suggestions could be connected more naturally. The final sentence’s “improve it” also leaves the reference slightly vague. More varied, precise links and clearer referencing would make the cohesion more polished.

Lexical Resource: Band 6.5

You use an adequate range of vocabulary for a formal complaint, including “appreciated,” “amenities,” “disappointed,” and “vegetarian options.” These choices communicate the main points clearly, and phrases such as “ensured everything ran smoothly” are appropriate to the context. There are, however, some inaccurate or awkward choices that limit precision: “lacked varieties” is not the natural form, “optimistic ratings” does not express the intended positive feedback, and “welcoming experience” needs a more natural construction. The spelling error “conerns” also detracts from accuracy. Aim for more natural collocations and check spelling; for example, describe the lunch as lacking variety and invite guests to leave positive reviews.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 6.5

The response includes both straightforward sentences and more complex structures, such as the relative clause in “staff, who ensured everything ran smoothly” and the conditional sentence beginning “if they gets.” Most ideas remain understandable, and sentence boundaries and punctuation are generally controlled. Some grammatical errors remain, particularly in the recommendation paragraph: “I would recommend by adding” has an incorrect structure, “the hotel can improve” does not fit smoothly with the introductory clause, and “they gets” has a subject–verb agreement error. The sentence beginning “Also” also repeats its subject structure unnecessarily. Practise patterns such as “I recommend adding…” and check agreement and clause construction when combining suggestions.

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