You recently went to a movie theatre to enjoy a movie, but unfortunately, you left your jacket there. Write a letter to the manager of the movie theatre about the jacket. In your letter: - describe the jacket - describe where you were seated - explain what you want the manager to do about it
Sample Response
Dear Sir or Madam,
DeleteMy name is Justin Phillip, and I am writing to youreaching out to you to request your assistanceask for a favour. I left my jacket at your theatre a couple of days ago, and I would like you to help me recover ithelp me get it back.
I left my jacket at your movie theatre by mistake when I went there to watch a movie on 19th August. Not sure why or exactly how I could have possibly made such a silly mistake, but I guess that I might have just left it by my side unconsciously as I was probably feeling a bit too hot inside the theatre.
To give you some information about my jacket, it is blackblack in colour, made entirely of leatherfully made of leather, and it also hashad a round neck. The jacket does not have a zipper; instead,any zipper, instead, it has button fasteningssome buttons. As for where I left my jacketAnd as far as where I could have possibly left my jacket, I was sitting on the third row from the backthird row, from behind, on the first floor.
Please look for my jacketPlease try to find my jacket, and sendmail it to me by courierin a courier mail service at your earliest convenience. I have included my address in this lettergiven my address with this letter. I would be very gratefulI would be much obliged.
Yours faithfully,
Justin Phillip
Why this response received Band 7.0
The letter has a clear formal purpose and covers the jacket's appearance, its likely location, and the requested return action with enough practical detail. Its main weakness is uneven language control, especially in the speculative explanation, where fragments, repetition, and awkward collocations reduce precision. The highest-priority improvement is to replace that overlong speculation with a concise account and make the seating and courier instructions more exact.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
All three bullet points are addressed in an appropriately formal letter, though the seat description and return instructions could be more precise.
Give an exact seat or auditorium identifier and specify whether the manager should contact the writer before arranging delivery.
Coherence and Cohesion
The response is logically organised into clear functional paragraphs, but the speculative second paragraph is repetitive and disrupts the otherwise direct progression.
Condense the explanation of how the jacket was left and move quickly to the identifying and location details.
Lexical Resource
Vocabulary is sufficiently varied for the task, but phrases such as "left it by my side unconsciously" and "in a courier mail service" are awkward.
Use more natural service-language collocations, such as "left it beside my seat" and "send it to me by courier".
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Simple and complex structures generally communicate clearly, but fragments, comma splices, article choices, and tense inconsistency recur.
Revise sentence boundaries and maintain present tense when describing the jacket, especially around "Not sure why" and "instead".
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
You recently went to a movie theatre to enjoy a movie, but unfortunately, you left your jacket there. Write a letter to the manager of the movie theatre about the jacket. In your letter:
- describe the jacket
- describe where you were seated
- explain what you want the manager to do about it
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