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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The diagrams portray what the Southwest Airport looks like now and what the same place would be like a year later when the renovation works will be complete.

Overall, the Southwest Airport will be expanded, and offer far more facilities and better accessibility for passengers after the development work is done.

As the map suggests, the airport now has a single arrival and departure area. The departure area is on the left of the main building and has a check-in counter for passengers and a cafe. The arrival area, on the other hand, does not have such amenities and looks empty. Straight ahead of the arrival area, customs and passport control could be seen. Similarly, passport control and . The airport now has eight gates, two walkways, and check-in areas.

After the development work, which is expected to finish next year, the airport will have eighteen gates, and a sky train inside the airport. New shops will be built, and the departing passengers will have access to bag drop facilities. It will be built where the check-in point is now. , there will be the check-in point. The renovated airport will have more departure and entry points to serve more passengers at a time. It will also have ATMs and . Finally, a car hire facility will also be included on the right side of the arrival hall.

Overall assessment

Why this response received Band 7.0

This is a clear and suitably detailed report with a useful overview of the airport expansion and additional facilities. The before-and-after organisation works well, and most major developments are accurately identified. Its main limitation is precision in a few smaller details and references: singular facilities are sometimes made plural, and the sentence referring back to bag drop facilities has an unclear grammatical link. These issues do not prevent understanding.

IELTS criteria

How each score was decided

Task Achievement

7.0

The report provides a clear overview and covers the main expansion, gate numbers, shops, bag drop and arrival amenities. Minor precision issues include plural "check-in areas" for the single current check-in point and "ATMs and cafes" where the future arrival area shows one of each.

Coherence and Cohesion

7.0

The response is logically organised into an introduction, overview and descriptions of the two layouts, with clear contrasts between departures and arrivals. Cohesion is generally effective, although "It will be built" refers awkwardly back to plural "bag drop facilities".

Lexical Resource

7.0

The vocabulary conveys the main changes clearly, with appropriate phrases such as "check-in counter" and "car hire facility". Some repetition of "airport" and "area", together with expressions such as "Opposite to it", limits flexibility and naturalness.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

7.0

A range of simple and complex sentences is used with generally good accuracy, including relative clauses and future passive forms. Occasional problems with tense choice, as in "when the renovation works will be complete", and pronoun agreement prevent consistently precise control.

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