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 a regular reader of your daily newspaper “Times of India.” I am writing to tell you aboutI am writing this letter to inform you about an authentic restaurant called “Step and Eat” which I recently visitedwhich I have visited recently with my family. I reckon this is a worth visiting place for others and hoping that you would write a review on this eatery to let others know about this fabulous place. Located on Smith Street near the National Park, it is a restaurant serving several cuisinesmulti-cuisine restaurant. I went there with my family last Sunday. As we enjoyAs we are fond of Italian food, my husband ordered an Italian meal. The meal comprised of a delicious soup, a signature dish of the hotel known as mixed vegetable spaghetti and at the end we had a mouth savouring dessert called Green Marshmallows which had a perfect creamy texture. It was one of the most memorable dinnersone of the memorable dinners I have ever had with my family. The restaurant is worth a visit for everyone in townworth visiting for everyone in the town because it offers a wide variety of disheswide range of varieties in food to suit different tastesto satisfy the human palate. Moreover, it maintains high standards of cleanliness and hygienemaintains proper cleanliness and hygiene. The staff members are veryso polite, cooperativeco-operative and professional, whichprofessional - which creates a welcoming atmospheregives a diligent feeling to the customers. Hence, I request you to write an article or review abouton this restaurant so that more people could learn about it and visitcould come to know and visit it. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours faithfully, Vishwa Vinutna
Why this response received Band 7.0
The letter gives a vivid account of the restaurant, meal, service, and reasons for recommending it, and its request to the editor is clear and relevant. The main limitation is frequent awkward phrasing, which sometimes makes otherwise varied vocabulary sound unnatural, while the continuous-block format weakens readability. Prioritise idiomatic collocations and accurate sentence construction, then organise the description and recommendation into distinct paragraphs.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
All three bullet points are fully addressed with relevant details about the location, meal, facilities, staff, and value to potential visitors.
Keep the detailed coverage but state the request for a newspaper review more directly at the start of the letter.
Coherence and Cohesion
The response moves logically from its purpose to the restaurant and meal description before explaining the recommendation, though some ideas are repeated.
Divide the purpose, meal description, and reasons for recommending the restaurant into focused paragraphs and avoid repeating ‘worth visiting’.
Lexical Resource
Vocabulary shows range and an attempt at vivid description, but combinations such as ‘a worth visiting place’, ‘mouth savouring’, and ‘a diligent feeling’ are unnatural.
Choose idiomatic phrases such as ‘well worth visiting’, ‘mouth-watering dessert’, and ‘a welcoming atmosphere’.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
The letter uses varied sentence forms, but errors in verb patterns, comparison structures, and clause coordination occur often enough to reduce control.
Revise structures such as ‘I hope you will write a review’ and ‘one of the most memorable dinners I have ever had’.
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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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