You recently did a short cookery course. The cookery the school has asked for your feedback on this course. Write a letter to the course director at the cookery school. In your letter: - Describe what you enjoyed about the course - say how much cooking you’ve done since the course - suggest another cookery course you’d like the school to offer
Sample Response
Dear Course Director, I am pleased to provideI am fortunate enough to give my positive feedback on the cookery course that I completed a week ago in your ‘Trinity’ training center.
I would like to mention that instruction made of teaching was advanced and particularly, the prominent personality, who had years’ experience, shared varied exotic recipes, which were the icing on the cake for all the aspirants. Besides, flexible schedulingflexi-time reduced the pressure on usreduced our pressure of work as most candidates were in employmentjobholders.
Since I have completed this course, every weekend, I make new dishes for my family. Moreover, recently I was approached by a school to teach evening cooking classes thereto take cooking classes in a school in the evening. So, it has been two days, I have been taking classes and demonstrating them by making different cuisines like Italian, Mexican and to name but a few.
I would like to recommend that you startrecommend you to start a course in Chinese cuisinecourse on Chinese food. Many people loveAs I have seen people love to eat Chinese food and they are less interested in other cuisinesshow their disinterest in other food. If you offer this courseIf you start it, I would like to join it to broaden my knowledge of other cuisineskeep myself abreast with other dishes. Now, this would be a good timeit is high time as students are on holiday from school or collegefree from their schools and colleges and they are interested in developing culinary skillsmore interested in culinary skills.
I hope you will consider this suggestionconsider the matter and the course will benefit the school in the long termit will help you in the long run.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Yours faithfully,Yours faithfully
Why this response received Band 6.0
The response addresses all three content points and is organised so that each main purpose receives a separate paragraph. However, frequent unnatural collocations and unstable sentence structures make several ideas harder to follow, while the missing opening salutation weakens the letter format. The highest priority is to express each point in simpler, idiomatic language and proofread grammar before adding ambitious vocabulary.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
All bullet points are addressed, but some supporting details are unclear or only loosely relevant, and the opening salutation is missing.
Use a complete formal letter opening and give straightforward, internally consistent detail about how often you have cooked since the course.
Coherence and Cohesion
The response progresses through the three requested points in distinct paragraphs, though some linking is mechanical and sentence relationships are occasionally unclear.
Connect ideas with direct cause-and-effect wording and avoid formulaic transitions that do not clarify the relationship between sentences.
Lexical Resource
There is an ambitious range of topic vocabulary, but frequent inaccurate collocations and inappropriate choices reduce precision and naturalness.
Prefer familiar expressions such as 'teaching methods', 'experienced instructor', and 'learn more dishes' over forced or imprecise alternatives.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
The writer attempts varied complex structures, but recurring article, tense, clause, and punctuation errors weaken accuracy and sometimes strain comprehension.
Build shorter complete sentences, then check verb tense and clause boundaries, especially in the paragraph about cooking since the course.
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
You recently did a short cookery course. The cookery the school has asked for your feedback on this course. Write a letter to the course director at the cookery school. In your letter:
- Describe what you enjoyed about the course
- say how much cooking you’ve done since the course
- suggest another cookery course you’d like the school to offer
Your response
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