You and some friends ate a meal at a restaurant to celebrate a special occasion, and you were very pleased with the food and service. Write a letter to the restaurant manager. In your letter: - give details of your visit to the restaurant - explain the reason for the celebration - say what was good about the food and the service
Sample Response
Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing this letter to let you know how pleased my friends and II and my friends are after celebrating my friend’s 27th birthday at your restaurant. DeleteBy the way, we were planning to celebrate my friend’s birthday at another place, but we had to change our plan at the eleventh hour for some reason. However, after arrivingBut, after coming to your restaurant and seeing how you have prepared everything for the birthday celebrationflawlessly planned for the birthday, I am so glad that we actually went to your restaurantplace. DeleteAnyway, the seating arrangement for so many guests was just perfect. The foodfoods and desserts were just outstanding as they tasted like they were so fresh and freshly preparedright out of the oven. In fact, I would never forget the rich flavourchewy taste of those mushrooms which were cooked with Italian pasta. And, as for the serviceservices, all of your staff members were courteous and professional, and some of them even went out of their wayways to write a few lines of poetrywrite few poetry lines to cheer up my friend on his birthdayour birthday boy. So, all in all, we all had a great time at your restaurant, and we sure would like to come back again in the futurein future. Yours faithfully, Jimmy Falcon
Why this response received Band 7.0
The letter succeeds most in fully covering the visit, celebration, food, and service with an enthusiastic, appreciative tone and clear supporting details. Its main weakness is presentation: the single long paragraph, overloaded sentences, and several unnatural expressions reduce polish. The highest-priority improvement is to organise the message into purposeful paragraphs, then proofread noun forms, articles, and restaurant collocations for more natural, controlled writing.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The letter gives details of the restaurant visit, explains the birthday celebration, and praises both food and service. It fully achieves the communicative purpose, though some details about the original plan are not necessary.
Use the space to give one or two more precise details about the restaurant visit rather than explaining why another venue was not used.
Coherence and Cohesion
The response has a clear overall flow, but it is one long paragraph and several transitions sound casual or repetitive. Some sentences are long and overloaded.
Break the letter into paragraphs for visit details, food and service praise, and closing appreciation.
Lexical Resource
The vocabulary is varied and enthusiastic, with useful phrases such as “courteous and professional”. Some expressions are unnatural, including “foods”, “chewy taste”, and “went out of their ways”.
Keep the positive tone but choose natural restaurant-review collocations such as “the food”, “freshly cooked”, and “went out of their way”.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Most meaning is clear, but grammatical errors in pronoun order, countable nouns, articles, and plural forms reduce accuracy. Sentence control is weaker in the longer sentences.
Proofread noun number and article use, especially with “food”, “service”, “a few”, and “the future”.
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
You and some friends ate a meal at a restaurant to celebrate a special occasion, and you were very pleased with the food and service. Write a letter to the restaurant manager. In your letter:
- give details of your visit to the restaurant
- explain the reason for the celebration
- say what was good about the food and the service
Your response
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