Children should be required to help with household tasks as soon as they are able to do so.
Sample Response
As time goes by, parents have less and less time to spend at home with their children because of their working pressure & schedules. Lots of people think that it should be better to teach their children to do house works, so they could do household tasks more rapidly and especially together and can prepare for the upcoming days. I think that is right to teach children to do house works and I will discuss this topic in the next paragraphs. The reason why children should learn how to do household tasks is that it will become extremely useful to them in the future. In fact, learning to do the house works will prepare children to adult life. Furthermore, the fact that children can contribute to household tasks is a concrete help for their parents and a reason of pride. Parents should firstly teach to their children to complete easy tasks such as removing dust or washing their toys. Secondly, children could give some help with gardening or take care of pets, which are tasks that require interest and more attention. Finally, young boys and girls could use the hoover or the dishwasher. The most important aspect of teaching how to do house works is to make them easy-to-do and even amusing if possible.
To conclude, people who don't believe that their children are able to do household tasks are completely wrong and have to change their mind even if they hadn't been required to do house works when they were children too.
IELTS Writing Correction
- 1. Use workload phrase Original: working pressure & schedules Suggested revision: workload and schedules Why it matters: 'Working pressure' is unnatural here, and an ampersand is unsuitable in formal prose.
- 2. Use formal quantifier Original: Lots of people Suggested revision: Many people Why it matters: 'Many' is more appropriate than 'lots of' in an academic essay.
- 3. Use conditional form Original: it should be better Suggested revision: it would be beneficial Why it matters: The claim needs a natural evaluative construction rather than 'should be better.'
- 4. Use uncountable housework Original: their children to do house works Suggested revision: their children to do housework Why it matters: 'Housework' is an uncountable noun and is written as one word.
- 5. Use future directly Original: the upcoming days Suggested revision: the future Why it matters: 'Prepare for the future' expresses the intended long-term benefit naturally.
- 6. Add clause subject Original: that Suggested revision: it Why it matters: The complement clause needs the subject 'it.'
- 7. Use housework singular Original: the house works will prepare Suggested revision: housework will prepare Why it matters: 'Housework' is uncountable and does not take a plural verb form.
- 8. Use practical help Original: a concrete help Suggested revision: practical help Why it matters: 'Practical help' is the natural collocation for useful assistance.
- 9. Use source of pride Original: reason Suggested revision: source Why it matters: The fixed expression is 'a source of pride.'
- 10. Correct teach pattern Original: should firstly teach to their children Suggested revision: should first teach their children Why it matters: 'Teach' takes a direct object here, and 'first' is the natural sequencing adverb.
- 11. Use dusting Original: removing dust Suggested revision: dusting Why it matters: 'Dusting' is the established name for this household task.
- 12. Use help directly Original: could give some help with gardening Suggested revision: could help with gardening Why it matters: The verb 'help' is more direct and natural than 'give some help' here.
Suggested Rewrites
- working pressure & schedules workload and schedules
- Lots of people Many people
- it should be better it would be beneficial
- their children to do house works their children to do housework
- the upcoming days the future
- that it
Why this response received Band 6.0
The response maintains a clear supportive position and strengthens it with practical, age-appropriate examples of household tasks. Its main limitation is that the benefits are explained only briefly, while nearly all development is compressed into one long paragraph and language inaccuracies recur. Develop the educational value of responsibility more fully and organise the reasons into distinct, logically focused body paragraphs.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
A clear position is supported by relevant reasons and practical examples, though the central benefits of making chores a requirement receive limited explanation.
Explain more fully how regular household duties develop independence and responsibility, and connect each example directly to that outcome.
Coherence and Cohesion
The ideas follow a broadly logical sequence and linking is generally clear, but almost the entire argument is placed in one oversized paragraph.
Separate the preparation-for-adulthood argument from the family-benefit argument and give each a focused body paragraph.
Lexical Resource
The response uses an adequate range for family duties and child development, despite recurring awkward or inaccurate combinations such as 'house works.'
Use standard collocations consistently, including 'housework,' 'household chores,' 'prepare children for adult life,' and 'a source of pride.'
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A mix of simple and complex forms is attempted, but frequent errors in agreement, articles, comparison, and clause structure limit accuracy.
Check each complex sentence for a complete clause pattern, especially after correlative structures such as 'not only ... but also.'
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IELTS Writing Task 2
Children should be required to help with household tasks as soon as they are able to do so.
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