Southwest Airport Redevelopment Plans

The plans below show the site of an airport now and how it will look after redevelopment next year.

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

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Key features: Southwest Airport Redevelopment Plans

WhyThis is aMap — it asks you to describe how a place changed.

SoWe split the points intoOverview(the overall change to the place)andKey changes(what was added, removed, moved or kept).

Overview

1 point

Key changes

8 points

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Answer · 222 words · 4 paragraphs · 17 comments

Score details

Response 01
Estimated band5.5/ 9

Overall assessment

The response attempts all major redevelopment features, including the expanded gates, sky train, bag drop, and new facilities, which is its strongest aspect. However, key details are frequently garbled or inaccurate, such as the walkway, gate locations, and check-in changes, and the dense, error-prone sentences obscure the comparisons throughout.

TA

Task Achievement

The response addresses the task and provides an overview of the main changes, covering most key features such as the doubled entrances, new gates, sky train, bag drop, and car hire, but several details are inaccurate or unclear, including the walkway position, the gate expansion, and the check-in and café changes, and some reporting is hard to follow.

5.5
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Ideas are grouped by area with some use of linking devices, yet progression is frequently unclear because referents are ambiguous and sentences run together, making the sequence of comparisons hard to follow.

5.0
LR

Lexical Resource

The response attempts topic-appropriate vocabulary such as passport control, security, and redevelopment, but there are noticeable word-choice errors like yielded maps, advancement for redevelopment, and develop for built, alongside imprecise phrasing that limits flexibility.

5.5
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A range of structures is attempted, but frequent errors, including fragments such as in the centre, has 8 gates and faulty constructions like after the hall have a passport control, regularly reduce clarity and accuracy.

5.0

What to work on next

Rewrite the description in clearly separated sentences that accurately verify each feature and location against the plans before reporting it.

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