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

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show an airport layout in the present time and proposed changes next year after . It can be seen that a host of changes are planned for the future. The principal change will be on the north side and entrance.

Currently, there are two divisions, arrivals and departures ; on the arrival side, after the hall for , whereas on the departure side, in the hall where check-in is on the left side and . is security passport control. Additionally, passport control has some space, and the north side has a square shape area. in the centre, has 8 gates as well walkway is on left side

After development, departures and arrivals to two. On departure side, whereas, and cafe . On the arrival side, the area will expand and . East wall ATM and cafe also take place.

Furthermore, passport control will be the same as now although . North way six gates remain the same; however, six will develop in north-east side and same will on the north-west side. Middle of it sky train build.

Overall assessment

Why this response received Band 5.5

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.

IELTS criteria

How each score was decided

Task Achievement

5.5

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.

Coherence and Cohesion

5.0

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.

Lexical Resource

5.5

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.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

5.0

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.

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