You are organising a family party. Write a letter to your friend inviting him/ her to attend the party. In your letter: - Explain why you are organising the party - say why you want your friend to come to the party - describe what you are planning to do
Sample Response
Dear Charlotte,
I hope you and your family are doing well. It’s our 30th wedding anniversary this weekend, sothis weekend so my husband and I are having a partyare going to have a party at home and are inviting some of our closest friendsand invite some of our closest friends. I’d like to warmlywelcomely invite you and your familyalong with your family to join us forto arrive for a cosy dinnerdiner. The party is on SundayIt’s on Sunday, 10 October, at our place, starting at 5 pm.
Because you’re my dearest friend who have helped us so muchhelped us very much, my husband and I would like you to be part of our celebrationa part of our celebrate.
For the occasionAnyway, we have chosenchose to prepare Mexican dishes and order some pizza and snacks for the kids. Everything should be ready by the time our guestsguesses arrive. There is just one thing that concerns me is the weather. It’s been raining cats and dogs recently. Hopefully, the weatherHopefully the weather will brightenbrightan up so that everything can go aheadso that we could have everything going on as plannedplan.
Hope to see you very soon.
Yours,
Katherine Smith
Why this response received Band 6.5
The letter has a clear friendly purpose, covers the anniversary, the importance of the friend's attendance, and the main party arrangements in a logical sequence. Its main limitation is the high frequency of inaccurate word forms, spelling, and verb structures, although the intended meaning remains understandable. Focus first on correcting common forms such as chosen, celebration, guests, brighten, and as planned.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The invitation addresses all three bullet points with relevant details about the anniversary, the friendship, and the planned food, time, and setting.
Develop why the friend's presence matters with one more specific personal detail instead of only saying that she helped very much.
Coherence and Cohesion
The letter is logically paragraphed and moves clearly from the invitation to the reason for attendance and then the party arrangements.
Replace the abrupt linker Anyway with a more purposeful transition into the plans for food and entertainment.
Lexical Resource
There is sufficient range for the task, but frequent word-choice, word-form, and spelling errors such as welcomely, celebrate, guesses, and brightan reduce precision.
Check the part of speech and spelling of less familiar words before using them, especially invite, celebration, guests, and brighten.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
The writer attempts several complex structures, but recurring errors in verb forms and clause construction reduce accuracy while generally leaving meaning clear.
Practise perfect and participle forms and revise faulty structures such as have chose, concerns me is, and as plan.
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
You are organising a family party. Write a letter to your friend inviting him/ her to attend the party. In your letter:
- Explain why you are organising the party
- say why you want your friend to come to the party
- describe what you are planning to do
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