Plants can provide food, shelter, clothing, or medicine. What is one kind of plant that is important to you or the people in your country? Use specific reasons and details to explain your choice.
Sample Response
Plants play a very important role in our everyday life and our very existence depends on the oxygen we breathe which is produced by the plants. They give us oxygen, provide different medicines, clothing and food. Every country has its own staple food that dominates in the diet of dwellers of that country. For example, the staple food for Japan and Korea is rice. As for me, I am from Russia and our staple plants are potato and wheat. Some people in my country believe that wheat is the most important plant because it provides full and nutritious meals. People bake bread and cookies, cook kasha and soup. At old times people in Russia raised wheat and prayed for the good harvest in order to survive. Millet has a good storage time so it gives the opportunity to consume it a whole year. Thus this was an important plant in my country for a long. However, nowadays bread is no longer of that importance. A person has more products to choose from. Besides, some people tend to exclude bread from their diet in order to decrease their daily calorie intake and lose some weight. Personally, I think that potato is a more important plant than wheat in Russia and this is the kind of plant I like the most due to its extensive usefulness and our reliance on it. Virtually, every Russian has potato every day at least once. One can boil, fry, bake or mash it. My favourite meal is baked potato with cheese and a glass of milk. I think it is delicious and it does not take much time to cook it. Moreover, potatoes are easier to raise and store. To conclude, I think that potato by far is the most important plant in Russia and this is why I consider it as the most important plant in my country and also for the Russian people.
IELTS Writing Correction
- 1. Use natural collocation Original: everyday life Suggested revision: daily lives Why it matters: The plural phrase is more natural when referring to people's shared daily experience.
- 2. Streamline relative clause Original: the oxygen we breathe which is produced by the plants Suggested revision: the oxygen produced by plants Why it matters: This concise phrase removes an awkward relative clause while preserving the meaning.
- 3. Correct verb pattern Original: dominates in the diet Suggested revision: dominates the diet Why it matters: The verb 'dominate' takes a direct object here and does not need 'in'.
- 4. Use natural noun Original: dwellers of that country Suggested revision: its residents Why it matters: 'Residents' is a more natural term for people living in a country.
- 5. Use plural crop noun Original: our staple plants are potato and wheat Suggested revision: our staple crops are potatoes and wheat Why it matters: The countable crop name needs a plural form, and 'crops' is more precise than 'plants'.
- 6. Choose correct adjective Original: full Suggested revision: filling Why it matters: 'Filling' describes food that satisfies hunger, whereas 'full' does not fit this meaning.
- 7. Correct time phrase Original: At old times Suggested revision: In the past Why it matters: 'In the past' is the standard expression for an earlier period.
- 8. Correct article choice Original: the Suggested revision: a Why it matters: An indefinite article is needed because no specific harvest has been identified.
- 9. Maintain crop reference Original: Millet has a good storage time Suggested revision: Wheat has a long storage life Why it matters: The paragraph discusses wheat, so changing suddenly to millet breaks the reference chain.
- 10. Correct duration phrase Original: consume it a whole year Suggested revision: consume it throughout the year Why it matters: 'Throughout the year' correctly expresses consumption over the full period.
- 11. Complete time expression Original: for a long Suggested revision: for a long time Why it matters: The duration expression requires the noun 'time'.
- 12. Correct number and order Original: has potato every day at least once Suggested revision: eats potatoes at least once a day Why it matters: The revised phrase uses the plural food noun and a natural frequency expression.
Suggested Rewrites
- everyday life daily lives
- the oxygen we breathe which is produced by the plants the oxygen produced by plants
- dominates in the diet dominates the diet
- dwellers of that country its residents
- our staple plants are potato and wheat our staple crops are potatoes and wheat
- full filling
Why this response received Band 6.5
The response establishes a clear preference for potatoes and supports it with relevant points about everyday use, versatility, storage, and cultivation. Its main limitation is that the lengthy preliminary discussion of wheat and millet delays and weakens the central case, while some awkward language and the absence of paragraph breaks reduce polish. Prioritise the chosen plant earlier and develop its strongest reasons in distinct, focused paragraphs.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
A clear choice is supported with several relevant reasons, although substantial discussion of wheat and millet makes the response less focused.
State the choice earlier and develop two or three reasons about potatoes with fuller explanation rather than extended comparison with other crops.
Coherence and Cohesion
The ideas follow a generally logical path and linking is clear, but the entire response is presented as one long paragraph.
Organise the comparison and the main case for potatoes into separate paragraphs with one controlling idea in each.
Lexical Resource
The response uses a reasonably varied vocabulary for food, agriculture, and diet, though several collocations and word choices are awkward.
Improve natural phrasing in expressions such as staple food, growing crops, and long-term importance while retaining the useful topic vocabulary.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A mix of simple and complex structures communicates meaning clearly, despite recurring article, number, and preposition errors.
Review articles and countability in phrases involving plants, potatoes, meals, and time, then edit sentence patterns for more consistent accuracy.
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IELTS Writing Task 2
Plants can provide food, shelter, clothing, or medicine. What is one kind of plant that is important to you or the people in your country? Use specific reasons and details to explain your choice.
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