For the past year, you have been a member of a local club. Now you want to discontinue your membership. Write a letter to the club secretary. In your letter: - state what type of membership you have and how you have paid for this - give details on how you have benefited from the club - explain why you want to leave
Sample Response
Dear Mr Garner, I would like to express my gratitude to the local yoga club which you designate as a secretary. I greatlyimmensely enjoyed my association with the club and the benefits I receivedbenefits I had received from being a full-time member for a year areis immeasurable. However, due to my transfer to an office in another citydue to my transfer to a new office, which is in a different city, I want to cancel my membership. When I first enrolledNot to mention, when I first enrolled at the club as an amateur with no knowledge of yogaYoga, I was fascinated by the talented and friendly instructors. I paid Rs 2,000I had paid Rs 2000 per monthas a monthly fee for the first few months at the club's front desk. Then I upgraded to full-time silver membershipsubscribed to the full-time silver member and paid Rs 3,500paid Rs 3500 per month in cash. I now enjoypossess good health, as well as improvementsnot to mention the changes in my attitude and personality, thanks to the club and the people who run itpeople behind it. With regret, I would like to inform you that I have been transferred to Mumbai and I can no longer continue my association with the club. Please accept this letter as a formal notice of the cancellationformal notification for the cancellation of my membership. Once again, I thankOnce again I thank you and the people behind this excellentfabulous club.
Yours sincerely, Prasadarao Talluri
Why this response received Band 7.0
The letter covers the membership type and payments, benefits, and relocation reason clearly while maintaining a courteous tone. Its strongest content is the specific account of fees and personal improvement, but several awkward collocations and agreement errors reduce precision, and repetition weakens the flow. Prioritise natural membership language and accurate subject–verb agreement, then group payment, benefits, and cancellation into separate paragraphs.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
All three bullet points are developed with specific membership, payment, benefit, and relocation details, and the cancellation purpose remains clear and suitably polite.
Clarify the exact membership label by stating simply that the writer holds a silver membership paid monthly in cash.
Coherence and Cohesion
The letter progresses logically from appreciation to membership history, benefits, and cancellation, although repeated phrases and limited paragraphing make the flow less polished.
Give membership and payment, benefits, and the reason for leaving their own focused paragraphs.
Lexical Resource
There is a reasonably broad range of formal and appreciative vocabulary, but expressions such as "designate as a secretary," "possess good health," and "subscribed to the member" are inaccurate.
Use natural combinations such as "where you serve as secretary," "improved my health," and "upgraded to silver membership."
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Complex structures are attempted successfully in places, but errors in agreement, tense, and relative-clause construction are noticeable.
Correct forms such as "the benefits have been immeasurable," "I paid," and "the club, where you serve as secretary."
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
For the past year, you have been a member of a local club. Now you want to discontinue your membership. Write a letter to the club secretary. In your letter:
- state what type of membership you have and how you have paid for this
- give details on how you have benefited from the club
- explain why you want to leave
Your response
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