International Tourism: Tension or Understanding

Nowadays, international tourism is the biggest industry in the world. Unfortunately, international tourism creates tensions rather than understanding between people from different countries. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

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Essay ideas: International Tourism: Tension or Understanding

WhyThis is anOpinion essay — it asks whether you agree or disagree with a statement.

SoWe split the ideas intoReasons to agree(supports the statement)andReasons to disagree(argues against it).

Reasons to agree

9 ideas

Reasons to disagree

6 ideas

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Response 01
Estimated band6.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The strongest aspect is the clear, consistent disagreement with the prompt, supported by three relevant and reasonably developed arguments about culture, language, and first-hand experience. The main limitation is imprecise wording and recurring grammatical inaccuracy, alongside personal examples that drift from the international tourism focus.

TR

Task Response

The position is clear and consistently maintained with three relevant main ideas, but development is uneven and examples sometimes drift from the tourism-and-understanding focus.

6.5
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

The argument moves from an introduction through three reasons to a conclusion, but the entire response is a single paragraph. Signposts make the sequence understandable, while the missing paragraph divisions and occasional loose links limit organisation.

5.5
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is generally adequate for the topic with some appropriate collocations, though imprecise phrasing and awkward word choices recur.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A mix of simple and complex structures is attempted, but errors in articles, agreement, and sentence construction appear frequently without seriously impeding meaning.

6.0

What to work on next

Separate the introduction, each main reason and the conclusion into paragraphs, and keep examples focused on how tourism builds understanding between cultures.

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