You recently received an invitation to a party at your friend’s house. Write a letter to accept the invitation. In your letter: - explain why you are accepting the invitation - describe why you are looking forward to the dinner party - offer to bring a dish to share
Sample Response
Dear Mandeep,
I hope this letter will find you in radiant health and spirit. Yesterday, I got your letter, and I felt very happy to get an invitation to this get-together, and I am sure to attend this event.
I can not express my excitement in words to be with you after a long time. I remember when we met last time at the omaxe mall Patiala two years ago. I think this dinner party is giving us valuable time to spend together, and I am very happy to see Gurwinder after five years and have dinner together. We will share our thoughts and some old memories.
If u do not mind, let me bring Jeera rice and butter naan to share with all of you. I have recently enhanced my culinary skills and want to share some dishes to let you know the taste of food made by me.
Hope to meet this Friday at a dinner party.
Your friend,
IELTS Writing Correction
- 1. Use natural tense Original: will find you Suggested revision: finds you Why it matters: The present simple is the conventional form in this greeting.
- 2. Use natural greeting Original: radiant health and spirit Suggested revision: good health and high spirits Why it matters: This collocation sounds more natural in a friendly letter.
- 3. Choose precise verb Original: got Suggested revision: received Why it matters: Received is clearer and more appropriate in written correspondence.
- 4. Avoid vague intensifier Original: felt very happy Suggested revision: was delighted Why it matters: This concise verb expresses the writer's reaction more precisely.
- 5. Avoid repeated verb Original: get an invitation Suggested revision: receive your invitation Why it matters: This revision avoids repeating get and identifies whose invitation it was.
- 6. Name the event Original: this get-together Suggested revision: your dinner party Why it matters: Using the event named in the prompt makes the acceptance more specific.
- 7. Accept directly Original: and I am sure to attend this event Suggested revision: and I would be delighted to attend Why it matters: This wording gives a clear and appropriately warm acceptance.
- 8. Clarify excitement Original: in words to be with you after a long time Suggested revision: in words how excited I am to see you again Why it matters: The revision expresses the intended emotion with a natural grammatical construction.
- 9. Correct name and place Original: the omaxe mall Patiala Suggested revision: Omaxe Mall in Patiala Why it matters: The proper name needs capitalization and the location requires the preposition in.
- 10. Use future tense Original: is giving us valuable time Suggested revision: will give us valuable time Why it matters: The party is in the future, so the future form is appropriate.
- 11. Express anticipation Original: happy to see Gurwinder Suggested revision: looking forward to seeing Gurwinder Why it matters: This phrase more accurately expresses anticipation of a future meeting.
- 12. Maintain parallel form Original: have Suggested revision: having Why it matters: The gerund matches seeing after looking forward to.
Suggested Rewrites
- will find you finds you
- radiant health and spirit good health and high spirits
- got received
- felt very happy was delighted
- get an invitation receive your invitation
- this get-together your dinner party
Why this response received Band 6.5
The letter responds warmly to the invitation, covers every requested point, and gives personal reasons for anticipating the dinner. Its main weakness is uneven language control, with several unnatural expressions, sentence chains, and an inappropriate text-message abbreviation; the priority is to retain the friendly tone while using natural informal-letter phrasing and more accurately controlled sentences.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
All three bullet points are clearly covered with relevant personal detail, and the friendly register is generally suitable despite occasional excessive formality.
Use a consistently natural informal tone from the opening through the sign-off while keeping the specific personal details.
Coherence and Cohesion
The response is logically divided by purpose and easy to follow, though some ideas are joined in long chains and repeated.
Break up the longer sentences and avoid repeating happiness and together so each paragraph advances one clear idea.
Lexical Resource
There is adequate variety, including language about memories and cooking, but several collocations are awkward and the abbreviation u is unsuitable.
Replace unnatural or overly formal phrases with idiomatic choices such as spend quality time, try my cooking, and you.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
The writer attempts varied sentence forms, but recurring problems with tense, articles, sentence coordination, and phrasing limit accuracy while meaning remains clear.
Review tense consistency and divide heavily coordinated sentences into shorter, accurately punctuated units.
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
You recently received an invitation to a party at your friend’s house. Write a letter to accept the invitation. In your letter:
- explain why you are accepting the invitation
- describe why you are looking forward to the dinner party
- offer to bring a dish to share
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