Recently you went to a local restaurant with your family and were very satisfied with the food and service. Write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper. In your letter: - tell the editor about the restaurant - describe the meal you and your family had - explain why you think the restaurant is worth visiting
Sample Response
Dear Sir or Madam, I am an avid reader of your informative editorials and articlesa fan of your informative editorial and articles which I try to read as often as I can. I also like to share and exchange local information with my fellow residents of this town on various local channels, including your newspaperdifferent forums, such as your newspaper. As part ofAnd, as a part of this information-sharing effortinformation sharing effort, I would like to talk about a restaurant that I visiteda restaurant, where I visited recently with my familyfamily members, which I think is worth visiting. We tried several dishesmeals at that restaurant, and I must say that they were of excellenttop quality because they all seemed to be made with fresh ingredients. I especially liked their “mushroom fettuccine”, made with some perfectly groundgrinded hot pepper flakes and evenly slicedcut mushrooms. The French fries served there were also very delicious, with a pleasantly chewy texturedelicious and chewy. Besides, I also liked the nice seatingsitting arrangement in front of the restaurant's spacious porchthere in front of their spacious porch, which was nicely decorated with various flowering plantsdifferent kinds of flower plants. As for the customer service there, I think that the staff at the restaurant knew perfectly well how to make their customerscustomer happy.
So, based on this experiencebased on these findings, I would certainly recommend this restaurant to anybody and hope that you would publish a review recommending this restaurantan article reviewing and recommending this restaurant to your readers. Yours faithfully, George Malone
Why this response received Band 7.0
The response has a clear recommendation, relevant descriptions of the food, setting, and service, and a suitably formal tone for a newspaper editor. Its main limitation is that the restaurant is never identified by name or location, while details about the family's meal are narrower than the prompt invites. The highest-priority improvement is to identify the venue immediately and describe what different family members ate and enjoyed.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The letter addresses all three bullet points in an appropriate formal register, but it omits the restaurant's name or location and gives limited detail about the family's individual meals.
Identify the restaurant clearly and add one or two specific details about what other family members ordered and enjoyed.
Coherence and Cohesion
The recommendation develops logically from the writer's purpose through food, surroundings, and service, although the opening is overextended and paragraphing is limited.
Shorten the introductory remarks and use separate paragraphs for the meal, the wider dining experience, and the recommendation.
Lexical Resource
There is sufficient range to describe food, decor, and service, but several choices such as 'perfectly grinded,' 'chewy' fries, and 'sitting arrangement' are inaccurate or unnatural.
Choose more idiomatic food and restaurant collocations, such as 'freshly ground pepper' and 'pleasant seating area'.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
The writer uses varied complex structures with generally good control, though some relative clauses and noun forms are faulty.
Correct constructions such as 'a restaurant that I visited' and check singular-plural agreement in phrases about customers.
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
Recently you went to a local restaurant with your family and were very satisfied with the food and service. Write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper. In your letter:
- tell the editor about the restaurant
- describe the meal you and your family had
- explain why you think the restaurant is worth visiting
Your response
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