Environmental protection should be the responsibility of politicians, not individuals as individuals can do too little.

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Environmental Protection Politicians vs Individuals Responsibility - IELTS Writing Task 2

You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Write at least 250 words.

A student's answer to this task, and the feedback on it

Written by an IELTSX user under exam conditions and published unedited and anonymously. Band 6.5 ยท 255 words.

Nowdays environmental problems are getting worse and many people discuss who should take responsibility. Some people say that protecting the environment is only job for politicians because normal people can do very little. I partially agree with this statment because government have power to make big laws, but I also beleive that individuals action is also necessary.

On the one hand, politicians have main power to control environmental issues on a large scale. Goverments can create new strict laws to limit pollution from big factories and force companies to use green energy like solar or wind. Moreover, politicians can invest money in public transport and ban single-use plastic in whole country. For example, if government do not prohibit big factories from dumping waste into rivers, normal citizens cannot stop this big problem by just recycling at home. This shows that politicians play the most important role.

On the other hand, I do not agree that individuals can do nothing. If millions of ordinary people change their daily habits, it can make huge difference for nature. For instance, people can use public transport instead of personal cars, save water, and stop buying unnesessary plastic items. If everyday consumers refuse to buy products from polluting companies, these businesses will have to change their ways. Therefore, single actions of citizens are also very effective when everyone work together.

In concluson, protecting nature is not only responsibility of politicians. Although government must lead and pass strict rules, ordinary people should also take care of nature in their daily lifes.

Examiner feedback

The essay successfully addresses the prompt with a clear position and well-developed arguments supported by relevant examples. Cohesion and task response reach a solid Band 7 level, but frequent spelling mistakes and minor grammatical inaccuracies pull the lexical and grammatical scores down to Band 6, resulting in an overall band score of 6.5.

Task Response - 7

- Addresses the prompt fully by discussing both government and individual roles with a clear partially agree position. - Presents relevant and well-supported main ideas regarding legislation versus daily habits. - Supports arguments with logical examples like factories and public transport.

Coherence & Cohesion - 7

- Organizes information logically with a clear overall progression throughout the essay. - Utilizes standard paragraphing effectively with distinct introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. - Employs appropriate cohesive devices such as 'On the one hand', 'On the other hand', and 'Therefore'.

Lexical Resource - 6

- Uses an adequate range of vocabulary with some less common items like 'green energy' and 'single-use plastic'. - Contains several spelling errors ('Nowdays', 'statment', 'beleive', 'Goverments', 'unnesessary', 'lifes', 'concluson'). - Communicates meaning clearly despite noticeable lexical and spelling inaccuracies.

Grammatical Range & Accuracy - 6

- Employs a mix of simple and complex sentence structures with conditional and relative clauses. - Makes some grammatical errors such as subject-verb agreement ('if government do not', 'everyone work') and missing articles ('in whole country'). - Errors do not impede communication, but affect overall accuracy.

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