Today’s food travel thousands of miles before it reaches the customer. Is this a positive or negative trend?
Sample Response
We are living in an era of globalizationglobalization era which is whyso that’s why there are no barriers to communication and transportation. Nowadays, food imports and exportsfood import and export to other areasarea have become popularbecome popular without any restriction compared with the pastas compared to past. It has some pros and cons.
First of all, when food travels a long distancetravels to long journey then people gain access to a variety of foodsreceive the variety of food and can also tasteand also help to taste different cuisinesthe different cuisine. All in all, people can learn about other cuisinesknow about another cuisine. For instance, in India, there are some foodsfood and fruits which are imported from other countries and states such as whole-wheat breadwhole wheat pieces of bread, noodles and so on. Moreover, it also increases competition. As a resultAs a result of it, local farmers produce high-quality products to survive in the competitive market. FurthermoreApart from it, when in world some emergency situations occur such as war, natural disasters that food is very helpful at that time.
However, every coin has two sides there is some negative impact also. Long-distance transportDue to traveling food reducesreduce the quality as well as nutritionalnutrition value. Furthermore, when food reaches its destination after long travel then it loses its freshness. In addition to it, if a country imports foodone country import food then it put an extra burden on the pocket of the common person. For example, transport charges are included in food price that made it very costly.
To put in a nutshell, I pen down saying that imported food is beneficial as well as harmful also.It gives a chance to taste variety but some preservatives are used to preserve the food that is detrimental to health.
Why this response received Band 5.5
The response covers several benefits and drawbacks, and the broad paragraph sequence is easy to follow. However, it never clearly decides whether the trend is positive or negative, while several supporting points remain brief or imprecise and frequent grammatical and collocational errors reduce clarity. Prioritise a definite position, develop two or three directly relevant reasons with precise examples, and proofread sentence structure and agreement.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
The response discusses both benefits and drawbacks, but its position remains unclear and several ideas receive limited or loosely relevant support.
State explicitly whether the trend is mainly positive or negative and develop each selected reason with a clear explanation and relevant example.
Coherence and Cohesion
The four-paragraph structure provides broad progression, although mechanical linking and weak connections within some sentences interrupt the flow.
Use fewer formulaic linkers and make the logical relationship between each claim, explanation, and example explicit.
Lexical Resource
There is enough vocabulary to discuss trade, competition, freshness, and cost, but frequent inaccurate collocations and word forms limit precision.
Learn and check natural combinations such as travel a long distance, nutritional value, import food, and place a burden on consumers.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A mix of simple and longer structures communicates the main message, but frequent agreement, article, preposition, and sentence-boundary errors reduce control.
Proofread every clause for subject-verb agreement and articles, then separate run-on constructions into complete, correctly punctuated sentences.
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IELTS Writing Task 2
Today’s food travel thousands of miles before it reaches the customer. Is this a positive or negative trend?
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Write the task yourself, then compare your choices with the annotated response.