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.

Annotated response

10 correction notes

The map details plans for the of Southwest Airport. Looking from an overall perspective, it is readily apparent that the number of gates will greatly expand and there will be a variety of customer-facing facilities added including shops, , and an ATM.

The location of the departure and arrival entrances will remain the there are plans to install additional doors. Upon entering the airport, there is currently a and cafe. The future plan projects moving the check-in from the left side of the departure space in order to make room for a bag drop area and the repositioning of the cafe. The arrival section a and car hire that necessitates expanding the size of the building.

Security, passport control, and customs will be the future floor plan shows shops immediately upon exiting the security section for departures. The largest proposed alterations are replacing a walkway with a long sky train track and constructing 2 branching corridors that will enable to reach more than twice as many gates (8 at the moment and 18 after renovations).

Overall assessment

Why this response received Band 7.5

The response gives an accurate, well-selected summary of the redevelopment with a clear overview and precise data such as the gate increase from 8 to 18. Its main limitation is occasional awkward or unnatural phrasing, and some spatial details, such as which facilities are added on the arrivals side, are slightly blurred.

IELTS criteria

How each score was decided

Task Achievement

8.0

The response covers all key changes, including the gate expansion from 8 to 18, the sky train replacing the walkway, new bag drop, shops, ATM and car hire, and unchanged security areas, with a clear overview and largely accurate data.

Coherence and Cohesion

7.0

Ideas progress logically from overview to departures, arrivals and gates, with a good range of cohesive devices used naturally, though paragraphing and a few transitions could be more polished.

Lexical Resource

7.0

Vocabulary is flexible and reasonably precise for describing change and location, but phrases like 'a car hire', 'will affix a cafe' and 'customer-facing facilities' are slightly unnatural or imprecise.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

7.0

A wide range of structures is used with good control, including passives and complex sentences, though occasional awkward constructions such as 'that necessitates expanding' reduce precision.

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