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 daily liveseveryday life and our very existence depends on the oxygen produced by plantsthe 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 the dietdominates in the diet of its residentsdwellers of that country. For example, the staple food infor Japan and Korea is rice. As for me, I am from Russia and our staple crops are potatoes and wheatour staple plants are potato and wheat. Some people in my country believe that wheat is the most important plant because it provides fillingfull and nutritious meals. People bake bread and cookies and cook kasha and soupbread and cookies, cook kasha and soup. In the pastAt old times people in Russia raised wheat and prayed for athe good harvest in order to survive. Wheat has a long storage lifeMillet has a good storage time so it gives the opportunity to consume it throughout the yearconsume it a whole year. Thus this was an important plant in my country for a long timefor a long. However, nowadays bread is no longer as importantno 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 reducedecrease 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 because of its versatilitydue to its extensive usefulness and our reliance on it. Virtually, every Russian eats potatoes at least once a dayhas 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.
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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