IELTS Writing Task 2 Sample Band 5.5
IELTS Essay Sample Band 5.5
5.5
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The essay addresses the question but has several grammatical errors and lacks coherence. Vocabulary usage is adequate but could be more varied, and the logical flow needs improvement for better readability.
| Overall score | 5.5 | |
| Grammatical range and accuracy | 5.0 | |
| Lexical resource | 5.0 | |
| Coherence & cohesion | 5.0 | |
| Task response | 6.0 |
| Total Errors | 48 | |
| Grammatical range and accuracy | 15 | |
| Lexical resource | 26 | |
| Coherence & cohesion | 3 | |
| Task response | 4 |
Question
Some people think that a person can never understand a culture of the country unless they speak the language.
Do you agree with this opinion?
#Culture
#Agree / Disagree
Submitted Answer
English:
Words:357
Paragraphs:4
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Thesis Statement
Culture
and language
have a strong correlation from each others, but not causalities. Despite being some people
argue about language
as a prerequisite to understand
a culture
, I believe that we don't
need to speak
the language
to understand
the culture
. It's
because language
and culture
is
a separated aspect.To begin with,
country
with the neighboring
region usually shares a quite similar culture
, as well as the language
. But, not all neigboring
countries
have the same language
. For example, countries
in Asia have a culture
to take off their shoes before entering the house. This happens in almost all asian
countries
, from East Asia, South Asia, or even the Middle East. These culture
applies for
almost all asian
countries
, although they don't
know
each other's language
. Indonesia and Japan have the same 'take-off shoes' culture
, but there are just a small number of Indonesian people
that speaks
Japanese. Another personal example is, I like arabics
or the Middle eastern traditional music, but I don't
speak
arabic
. This fact also supported that nowadays, technology helps us to know
more informations
easily. Decades ago, before the internet established, people
who want
to know
about the culture
of a country
have
to search it
on
book
. However, the book written in the local language
. Therefore, people
have to know
the language
in order to know
the information. On the contrary, in this globalization era, we can get the information from the internet, including other country
's culture
. Even if we don't
speak
the language
, we can translate it to our native language
.Nevertheless,
people
who are undestand
the language
are usually learning about the culture
as well. Therefore, peoples
who speak
Japanese are usually know
about Japanese culture
. But, this is not mandatory
requirement to understand
the language
first before knowing
the culture
. Imagine that people
who want to know
Chinese culture
, isn't
it hard
to speak
the Mandarin first?To conclude,
speak
the language
of a country
have
an advantage to understand
better about the culture
. But, I believe that undestanding
the culture
doesn't
need to speak
the language
.