One of your friends invited you for a meal with his/her family in their home. You enjoyed the meal and had been happy to be introduced to his/her family. Write a letter to your friend. In your letter: - thank your friend and say that you enjoyed the meal - say what else you liked about this visit - ask your friend to meet you someday at a restaurant
Sample Response
Dear Guri,
Great to talk to you so soon. I couldn’t stop myself from writingcouldn’t stop myself to write you a thank-you lettera thank you letter for inviting me to dinner lastyesterday’s night. I really felt at home, and I was glad to meet your family.
To be honest, it wasTo be honest, It’d been a great feast. The food was delicious, especially lentil curry and rice pudding after taking dinner proved the icing on the cake. I had been cravingI’d crave eating thissuch kind of traditional food for a long time. Your mother will tantalise my taste buds with her imaginative pizzas that she promised to make on my nextanother visit.
On top of that, the garden near the entrance toof your house offers a picturesque settinghas a picturesque view. It inspiredcompelled me to takeclick some photos there. I was thrilled to have a delicious dinnertake a luscious dinner there. The lights in the treesThe lighting on the trees and a fountain in the middleamid of the garden really made my day.
Why this response received Band 5.5
The letter uses a warm, friendly tone and develops the meal and garden details clearly enough to make the visit feel personal. Its main limitation is the complete omission of the requested invitation to meet at a restaurant, while several strained expressions weaken naturalness; the highest priority is to add a specific restaurant invitation and then revise awkward word choices and tense forms.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The response thanks the friend and describes both the meal and another enjoyable feature of the visit, but it omits the required restaurant invitation entirely.
Add a clear invitation with a suggested restaurant or time so that all three bullet points are fully addressed.
Coherence and Cohesion
The response is divided into focused paragraphs and progresses clearly from appreciation of the meal to enjoyment of the garden.
Complete the letter with a final invitation paragraph and a suitable informal closing to create a fully rounded progression.
Lexical Resource
There is a noticeable range of descriptive vocabulary, but several choices such as 'luscious dinner' and 'in the amid' are unnatural or inaccurate.
Prioritise natural collocations and simpler precise wording instead of using ambitious expressions whose meaning or usage is uncertain.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A mix of sentence structures conveys the message, although errors in verb patterns, tense, articles, and possessives recur throughout.
Review verb forms and noun phrases, especially constructions such as 'stop myself from writing,' 'last night,' and 'another visit.'
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
One of your friends invited you for a meal with his/her family in their home. You enjoyed the meal and had been happy to be introduced to his/her family. Write a letter to your friend. In your letter:
- thank your friend and say that you enjoyed the meal
- say what else you liked about this visit
- ask your friend to meet you someday at a restaurant
Your response
Write the task yourself, then compare your choices with the annotated response.