The plans below show the site of an airport now and how it will look after redevelopment next year.
Sample Response
The provided plans present how the Southwest Airport looks now and how it will look after redevelopment next yearlooks now, and what it will look like next year, after the renovation work.
Generally speaking, the airport will be expanded and equipped with new facilitiesdeveloped, expanded and improved to provide more entrances and exitsentry and departure terminals, more gates andand more gates, and willwould include new facilities for the departing and arriving passengers Deleteat the airport.
As the maps suggest, the airport now has eight gates, and separate departures and arrivals areastwo entry and departure points. PassengersThe passengers use a moving walkway to get to their boarding gate areas. After the renovation of the airport, it will have a bigger concourse area with eighteen gates to serve more passengers at a time. Moreover, the walkway will be replaced by a sky train to transport passengers through the concourseoffer faster movement for passengers.
The departure area is on the left, and the arrivals area isarrival is on the right of the airport. Upon departing, security and passport control are located straight aheadcan be seen straight ahead. Shops will be built in areas where people will access after passing through security and passport controlbefore going to passport control and security. A bag-drop facility will also be included in the departure hall, and the check-in counters will be relocated to make the new bag-drop area bigger. Moreover, the café will be relocated near the departures entrancewill be closer to the passport control area, and the arrival hall, which currently contains a caféhas no amenities now, will have a cafe, ATMs and car hire facilities.
Why this response received Band 7.0
The response gives a clear overview of the airport's expansion and covers most major changes, including the enlarged concourse, additional gates, sky train, bag drop, and new arrival facilities. However, a few spatial descriptions are inaccurate or imprecise, especially the location of the shops and the claim about more terminals. Improve by checking each facility's position carefully and distinguishing entrances, halls, and passenger-processing areas precisely.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The report selects most major redevelopment features and gives a clear overview, but a few descriptions of facilities and their locations are inaccurate.
Place the shops after security and passport control and describe the added entrances rather than claiming that new terminals will be built.
Coherence and Cohesion
The response is organised into purposeful paragraphs and moves clearly from the overall transformation to concourse and terminal details.
Make the final paragraph even easier to follow by grouping all departure changes before moving to arrival facilities.
Lexical Resource
Vocabulary is varied and generally precise for describing plans, although phrases such as 'entry and departure terminals' and 'areas where people will access' are awkward.
Use exact spatial terms such as 'entrances,' 'departure hall,' 'airside shops,' and 'arrival facilities.'
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
The report uses varied complex structures with generally good control, though there are occasional article, agreement, and modal-consistency errors.
Keep future descriptions consistently in 'will' forms and check noun phrasing such as 'the departures area' and 'the arrivals area.'
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IELTS Academic Writing Task 1
The plans below show the site of an airport now and how it will look after redevelopment next year.
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