The Diagram Shows How Tea Leaves Are Processed Into Five Tea Types.
Sample Response
The given diagram describes how tea is producedmade out. According to the figure, tea leaves need to undergo a series of processesa five process before being converted into a range of dried tea productsdry state of powder for consumptionthat we use.
The first step illustrates that when a leaf has a better growth rate, there is plucking sent for withering. White teaThe white tea only needs one further stage: oven dryingone process, i.e., oven drying. Moreover, there are three further stagesthere have been further three steps after withering, which are steaming, rolling, and oven drying, after whichdrying, and after that, green tea is producedprepared for selling.
Although the process of oolong tea and large leaf black tea is similar, there has been a difference in fermentation, such as in the preparation of oolong tea; it includes the small fermentation while on the other side, full fermentation is there. Furthermore, crushing is used for small-leaf black tea and is followed bythere has been the inclusion of crushing in small leaf tea, which further involves full fermentationa full fermentation and oven dryingdrying process before the tea is finally readyand finally gets reading for salefor the market.
So this is the end of the AC Writing Task 1 ( The Diagram Shows How Tea Leaves Are Processed Into Five Tea Types.)
Why this response received Band 6.0
The response follows the process broadly from shared preparation to the five tea types and includes several important branch differences. Its main limitation is clarity and accuracy: the opening gives an unclear process count, the overview is weak, and frequent awkward grammatical and lexical choices obscure some stages. Prioritise a precise overview of the shared stages and branching methods, then describe each route in controlled process language.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
Most routes are covered and key distinctions such as steaming, crushing and degrees of fermentation are mentioned, but the overview is unclear and some descriptions are inaccurate.
State that all leaves are grown, plucked and withered before different combinations of steaming, rolling, crushing and fermentation lead to oven drying.
Coherence and Cohesion
The response progresses from common initial stages to individual tea types, although some connections are awkward and the closing sentence adds no process information.
Organise the body by shared stages and branching routes, and omit the formulaic final sentence.
Lexical Resource
There is enough process vocabulary to communicate the main sequence, but several inappropriate collocations reduce precision.
Replace expressions such as 'made out', 'small fermentation' and 'gets reading' with 'produced', 'slight fermentation' and 'becomes ready'.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Complex sentences are attempted, but frequent errors in articles, verb forms and clause construction sometimes make the meaning difficult to follow.
Use shorter active or passive process sentences and check article and agreement patterns such as 'five processes' and 'three further steps'.
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IELTS Academic Writing Task 1
The Diagram Shows How Tea Leaves Are Processed Into Five Tea Types.
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