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
Nowadays, governments manage various schedules and follow different policies to preserve forestspreserve the forests because plants are not only habitatsthe plants not only are the habitats of many animals, but also have significant benefits such as providing food, shelter, cover, and medicine for humankinddrug for the humankind. Although some people noticeably believe that food is the certain advantage of plants, in my reckoning, I prefer the plants which provide useful drugs and medicines and owing to special weather in my city. First and foremost, because of the special weather in my hometown, farmersthe farmers grow more medicinal plants than other typesgrow the medicinal plants more than other plants. As a matter of fact, the conditions force farmersthe condition forces farmers to cultivate these plants. MoreoverOn the other hand, there are various kinds of modern transportation systems, factories, and to name a few which emit hazardous pollutants into the air. UndoubtedlyWithout any doubt, these emissions not only destroy animals' habitatsthe animal's habitat but also cause many seriousdangerous illnesses in humansto the human. Also, according to some research conducted by many experts of psychology, the plant's drug has a profound impact on curing people and this is specifically true for the people in my country. Moreover, medicinal plants and herbal drugs have very fewlittle side effects and the people in my country rely on these herbal medicines to treat various diseasesrely on those herbal medicines for different diseases. In contrast to natural drugs, chemical drugs sometimes havethe chemical drugs sometimes have irreversibleirrecoverable effects. Scientists have shownScientists proved that although chemical drugs can curethe chemical drugs can cure some diseases, they can have serious side effects on our bodiesit has critical side effects on our body. Indisputably, having more effective outcomes of the medicinal plants is the dominant reason for my preference of the medicinal plants.
Why this response received Band 5.5
The response presents a consistent preference for medicinal plants and offers several relevant reasons, especially their local availability and perceived health benefits. However, it does not identify or describe one specific plant as the task requires, and some discussion of pollution is only loosely connected to the choice. The highest-priority improvement is to select a named plant and develop concrete details about its uses and importance.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
The response explains why medicinal plants matter but only partially fulfils the task because it never selects one particular kind of plant.
Name one specific plant and support the choice with concrete examples of how people grow, use, and benefit from it.
Coherence and Cohesion
The ideas follow a broadly understandable sequence, but the absence of paragraphing and some mechanical or inaccurate linking reduce clarity.
Divide the response into an introduction, focused reason paragraphs, and a conclusion, using connectors only where their logical meaning fits.
Lexical Resource
There is an adequate range of less common vocabulary, but frequent awkward collocations and imprecise word choices reduce naturalness.
Use more precise combinations for medicines, side effects, local growing conditions, and research rather than forcing formal-sounding expressions.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
The response attempts varied complex structures, but errors in agreement, articles, clause construction, and reference occur frequently.
Build complete main clauses before adding subordinate ideas, and check agreement between singular subjects and pronouns or verbs.
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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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