Your local newspaper wants to reward people who have contributed a lot to the community. Write a letter to the newspaper. In your letter: - suggest someone - who deserves the reward - mention what they have done to help the community - say what reward you would like to give this person
Sample Response
Dear Sir or Madam, I am the assistant manager of the Kennedy Women Development Organization. I have recently seennoticed your advertisement dated 12th April 2025 and am writing this letterand writing this letter to recommend a person who I believe deserves the award you plan to presentreward you intend to present. My organisation’s director, Mrs Hemamalinee, is the person I would like to nominate for this awardsuggest for this reward. She has been working for widowedwidow women for more than three decades. She is a capable, experienced and talented woman ideally suitedabsolutely fitting to receive this award. She devotes her time to helping other women in needutilises her time for other needy women. Both through her role as director and personallyBoth as a director and individually, she has supported many widows and destitute women. Through her dedication and willingness to helpWith her dedication, support and willingness, she has become a role model in our community. She never discriminates between people on the basis ofdifferentiates people based on their race, religion, disability and colour. That is, she treats everyoneall equally and she is an inspiring exampleexemplary personality for many. I would like to suggest a reward for her:this excellent lady; a trophy engraved with her name and a tribute to her community serviceprinted with her name and her service to the community. This should be an award for her lifetime achievement. Many women who received support from herobtained support through her would be delightedutterly happy if she received this awardif she receives this reward. We would be very gratefulhighly thankful if you could nominate Mrs Hemamalinee on your list. Yours faithfully, Niro Renu
Why this response received Band 7.0
The nomination is clear, appropriately formal, and supported by relevant evidence of long-term work for widows and disadvantaged women, while the proposed lifetime-achievement trophy directly answers the reward request. Its main weakness is linguistic precision: several collocations and sentence structures sound unnatural, and the one-block format limits readability; prioritise clearer paragraphing and more idiomatic descriptions of the nominee's service and award.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The nominee, reasons for recognition, community contribution, and proposed reward are all relevant and developed in a suitable formal tone.
Add one concrete example of a programme or outcome Mrs Hemamalinee created to demonstrate the impact of her three decades of service.
Coherence and Cohesion
The letter progresses logically from nomination to achievements and reward, but the single paragraph makes distinct communicative stages less visible.
Use separate paragraphs for the nomination, evidence of community impact, and proposed lifetime-achievement trophy.
Lexical Resource
The response has sufficient range for praise and community service, but several collocations are awkward or imprecise.
Use widowed women, well suited to receive the award, treats everyone equally, and a trophy engraved with her name and contribution.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Varied structures communicate the recommendation clearly, although missing auxiliaries, condition forms, and punctuation errors occur.
Write I am writing rather than and writing, use would be delighted if she received, and replace the semicolon before the trophy description with a colon.
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
Your local newspaper wants to reward people who have contributed a lot to the community. Write a letter to the newspaper. In your letter:
- suggest someone
- who deserves the reward
- mention what they have done to help the community
- say what reward you would like to give this person
Your response
Write the task yourself, then compare your choices with the annotated response.