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Design of a Modern Landfill for Household Waste

The diagram shows the design of a modern landfill for household waste.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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Key features: Design of a Modern Landfill for Household Waste

WhyThis is aProcess diagram — it asks you to explain a sequence from beginning to end.

SoWe split the points intoOverview(how many stages, and where it starts and ends)andStages(each step in order).

Overview

2 points

Stages

5 points

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Answer · 171 words · 3 paragraphs · 9 comments

Score details

Response 01
Estimated band7.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response follows construction, use and closure in a logical order and uses a good range of technical vocabulary and sentence structures. Its overview identifies containment and drainage, but omits closure. Several details go beyond the image, notably the tank’s construction and the claimed conversion of rubbish into mud. Confusing liners with pipes and a plural-agreement error also reduce precision.

TA

Task Achievement

The response describes construction, use and closure, but the overview omits closure and gas release. The tank’s supposed excavation through the layers and the conversion into a mud-like compound are unsupported; the liquid outlet is also misidentified as liners.

7.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Ideas progress logically through construction, use and closure in three paragraphs, with sequencing expressions making the progression easy to follow. The reference to the conversion in the final sentence depends on an unsupported earlier claim.

7.0
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is varied and topic-appropriate, including leachate, refuse and sealed. However, liners is used for drainage pipes, and mud-like compound gives an unsupported description of the waste; household waste would be the more usual collective form.

7.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A wide range of structures is used with good control, including passive constructions and participial clauses, though errors such as 'gases that are emitted... is eventually pumped out' and a missing final full stop show occasional slips.

7.0

What to work on next

Proofread subject-verb agreement and refine the accuracy of key descriptive terms, particularly for how waste liquid and gases leave the site.

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