You are on holiday and decided to write to your best friend. In your letter include the following: - Explain where you are - Describe what you have done while staying there - Explain why you are recommending the destination to your friend
Sample Response
Dear Frank,
I hope this letter finds you well. I am spending a lovely holiday at the Sea Holidays Hotel in Athens, Greece and have decided to dropand decided to drop you a few lines.
First of all, this place is awesome! The weather is great, the food is marvelous, the sea is warm, andthe sea is warm and the hotel itself is brilliant!
We stayed in the regular two-bedroom key room with a tiny balcony. It is so enjoyablejoyful to sit on the balcony in the evening, enjoying the beautiful sceneryenjoying beautiful scenery of the sea and hills belowbeneath us. There is a wide breakfast selectiona rich breakfast available for those who do not want to eat at the restaurant. There is also a rangeAlso, there is a range of activities that could appealactivities which could be interesting to almost everyonefor virtually everyone. DeletePersonally, we have taken only one guided tourwe took only one guided tour to the ruins so far, but we want to visit some other places later.
I really recommend that you visitrecommend you to visit this place because it is relatively cheap to stay here and many activities are availablea lot of activities are available.
See you!
Best wishes,Regards,
Why this response received Band 7.0
The letter has an engaging, friendly voice and covers the location, holiday experiences, and reasons for recommending Athens with relevant supporting detail. Its main limitation is that several otherwise ambitious phrases and tense choices sound unnatural, so the highest-priority improvement is to use more idiomatic travel collocations and consistent present-perfect forms when describing experiences during an ongoing holiday.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
All three bullet points are clearly addressed with relevant detail, and the enthusiastic informal tone suits a letter to a close friend.
Develop the description of completed activities with one more specific experience to make the recommendation even more persuasive.
Coherence and Cohesion
The letter follows a clear progression from location and impressions to activities and recommendation, with effective paragraphing and linking.
Strengthen the connection between the activity details and the final recommendation so the conclusion feels less repetitive.
Lexical Resource
The vocabulary is varied and lively, but a few combinations such as key room, rich breakfast, and recommend you to visit are unnatural.
Choose idiomatic travel expressions such as well-equipped room, generous breakfast, and recommend that you visit.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A range of complex structures is handled accurately overall, with occasional tense and article errors that do not impede meaning.
Use the present perfect consistently with so far and check articles in phrases describing scenery and accommodation.
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
You are on holiday and decided to write to your best friend. In your letter include the following:
- Explain where you are
- Describe what you have done while staying there
- Explain why you are recommending the destination to your friend
Your response
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