You are organising a family party. Write a letter to your friend inviting him/ her to attend the party. In your letter: - Explain why you are organising the party - say why you want your friend to come to the party - describe what you are planning to do
Sample Response
Dear Charlotte,
I hope you and your family are doing well. It’s our 30th wedding anniversary this weekend so my husband and I are going to have a party at home and invite some of our closest friends. I’d like to welcomely invite you along with your family to arrive for a cosy diner. It’s on Sunday, 10 October, at our place, starting at 5 pm.
Because you’re my dearest friend who helped us very much, my husband and I would like you to be a part of our celebrate.
Anyway, we have chose to prepare Mexican dishes and order some pizza and snacks for the kids. Everything should be ready by the time our guesses arrive. There is just one thing that concerns me is the weather. It’s been raining cats and dogs recently. Hopefully the weather will brightan up so that we could have everything going on as plan.
Hope to see you very soon.
Yours,
Katherine Smith
IELTS Writing Correction
- 1. Add a joining comma Original: this weekend so Suggested revision: this weekend, so Why it matters: A comma is needed before ‘so’ when it joins two independent clauses.
- 2. Use concise wording Original: are going to have a party Suggested revision: are having a party Why it matters: The present continuous expresses this arranged event more directly.
- 3. Keep verbs parallel Original: and invite some of our closest friends Suggested revision: and are inviting some of our closest friends Why it matters: The repeated auxiliary makes the two planned actions structurally parallel.
- 4. Use the correct adverb Original: welcomely Suggested revision: warmly Why it matters: ‘Warmly’ is the natural adverb for expressing a friendly invitation.
- 5. Simplify the invitation Original: along with your family Suggested revision: and your family Why it matters: This simpler coordination sounds more natural in an informal invitation.
- 6. Use the right invitation phrase Original: to arrive for Suggested revision: to join us for Why it matters: Guests are invited to ‘join us for’ a meal rather than ‘arrive for’ it.
- 7. Correct the meal word Original: diner Suggested revision: dinner Why it matters: ‘Dinner’ means the meal, whereas ‘diner’ refers to a person or a restaurant.
- 8. Clarify the reference Original: It’s on Sunday Suggested revision: The party is on Sunday Why it matters: Naming the party removes any ambiguity about what ‘It’ refers to.
- 9. Show continuing relevance Original: helped us very much Suggested revision: have helped us so much Why it matters: The present perfect connects the friend’s past help to the current invitation more naturally.
- 10. Use the correct noun Original: a part of our celebrate Suggested revision: part of our celebration Why it matters: ‘Celebration’ is the noun required after ‘our’, while ‘celebrate’ is a verb.
- 11. Use a relevant transition Original: Anyway Suggested revision: For the occasion Why it matters: This transition links the food plans directly to the anniversary party.
- 12. Use the past participle Original: chose Suggested revision: chosen Why it matters: The present perfect requires the past participle ‘chosen’.
Suggested Rewrites
- this weekend so this weekend, so
- are going to have a party are having a party
- and invite some of our closest friends and are inviting some of our closest friends
- welcomely warmly
- along with your family and your family
- to arrive for to join us for
Why this response received Band 6.5
The letter has a clear friendly purpose, covers the anniversary, the importance of the friend's attendance, and the main party arrangements in a logical sequence. Its main limitation is the high frequency of inaccurate word forms, spelling, and verb structures, although the intended meaning remains understandable. Focus first on correcting common forms such as chosen, celebration, guests, brighten, and as planned.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The invitation addresses all three bullet points with relevant details about the anniversary, the friendship, and the planned food, time, and setting.
Develop why the friend's presence matters with one more specific personal detail instead of only saying that she helped very much.
Coherence and Cohesion
The letter is logically paragraphed and moves clearly from the invitation to the reason for attendance and then the party arrangements.
Replace the abrupt linker Anyway with a more purposeful transition into the plans for food and entertainment.
Lexical Resource
There is sufficient range for the task, but frequent word-choice, word-form, and spelling errors such as welcomely, celebrate, guesses, and brightan reduce precision.
Check the part of speech and spelling of less familiar words before using them, especially invite, celebration, guests, and brighten.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
The writer attempts several complex structures, but recurring errors in verb forms and clause construction reduce accuracy while generally leaving meaning clear.
Practise perfect and participle forms and revise faulty structures such as have chose, concerns me is, and as plan.
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
You are organising a family party. Write a letter to your friend inviting him/ her to attend the party. In your letter:
- Explain why you are organising the party
- say why you want your friend to come to the party
- describe what you are planning to do
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