The map below shows a civic centre between the present and its plan.
Sample Response
The yielded diagram demonstrates a civiccivil centre current layout and proposed planpresent-day view and plans.
Overall, it can be seen that it will improve provision and build underground places that are not currently available after advancement. In addition, the left side of the centre is High Streetthe high street and Smith Streetsmith street on the right side. North Avenue is to the northin the top direction, while the opposite side has Victoria Avenuevictoria avenue.
Currently, the northern side of the centrenorthern top centre has a cinema and car parks are on both sidescar parking is on both sides. The exhibition location is on the southeast corner, the western side next to council offices and town hall. Moreover, the library is on the southeastsouthwest corner while the top of the direction is the shopping centre area.
In future, cinema and shopping centrecentres will remain in the same location. However, the cafe will replace the northeastern car parkwill take northeast corner car parking place and the hotel and restaurant will replace the other car parkhotel& restaurant another parking. The underground library will develop in council offices, and it shifts to exhibition location. Furthermore, the exhibition will be located atwill have in the southeastern corner beside Smith Streetsmith streets south corner. A new underground car parkNew underground car parking will be built beneathwill build in the town hall.
Why this response received Band 5.0
The response identifies several present and planned features and uses a sensible present-versus-future structure. However, the overview is vague and the report repeatedly mislocates facilities, including the exhibition, library, cafe, and planned hotel, while awkward sentence construction sometimes obscures the intended changes. The priority is to verify each compass position against the maps and describe every relocation with a clear subject, origin, and destination.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The response covers both maps and mentions several changes, but its overview is imprecise and multiple facilities are placed in the wrong corners.
Check every location against the compass points and clearly state which facilities remain, move, replace car parks, or become underground.
Coherence and Cohesion
The present-versus-future paragraph structure gives the report broad progression, although faulty referencing and unclear sentence links interrupt the flow.
Describe one change per sentence and use precise references such as the former exhibition site instead of ambiguous pronouns.
Lexical Resource
There is some relevant map vocabulary, but frequent unsuitable choices and collocations such as yielded diagram, civil centre, and improve provision reduce precision.
Use standard map-reporting phrases such as is located, will be replaced by, will move to, and will remain unchanged.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A mixture of structures is attempted, but frequent article, preposition, word-form, and passive-voice errors often make relationships difficult to follow.
Practise complete future passive clauses with articles and prepositions, for example, A cafe will be built on the former car-park site.
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IELTS Academic Writing Task 1
The map below shows a civic centre between the present and its plan.
Your response
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