You had a good meal at a local restaurant with your family. Write a letter to the newspaper. In your letter: - tell the newspaper about the restaurant - describe the meal you had - explain why you think the restaurant is worth visiting
Sample Response
Dear Sir or Madam, I am a resident of Panadura city in Kaluthara district and am writing to expressand writing to express my appreciation forenthusiasm regarding a restaurant that I visited with my family last week. I believe this is a magnificent place for diners and would like you to publish a review ofon it so that others in our community can learn about it. I visitedabout it I have visited the restaurant, The River View,establishment - The River View, with my family to enjoy dinner last Sunday. The view from the restaurantsurrounding view is wonderful and the restaurant was beautifully decoratedit was decorated gorgeously. The decoration and ambience of the place were mesmerising, not to mention the courteous staffwell-behaved staff. We ordered fried rice, chicken curry, parathaParata and Lunumiris and I noticedI personally felt that the restaurant offered a wide rangethey had a wide range of dishes we could choose from. We were served very quickly and the food tasted deliciouscelestial. Normally, I don't eateach much at night, but on that day I had a largeheavy meal! They offered us a 15% discount and a complimentary dessert. All my family membersAll of my family members appreciated the dining experience and mentioned the delicious dishes they had enjoyedscrumptious menu they enjoyed. They thanked me for taking them to a great eatery. This letter is to inform about this restaurant to the wider publicmass people because it is a place worth visitinga worth visiting place. Yours faithfully, Ashesha Weerasinghe
Why this response received Band 6.5
The letter gives the restaurant a clear identity, vividly describes the meal and service, and supplies several convincing reasons for publication and a visit. Its main weakness is recurrent language imprecision and sentence control, including a missing stop after the opening request and unnatural phrases such as mass people and a worth visiting place; prioritise proofreading sentence boundaries and using concise, formal expressions for a newspaper audience.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The restaurant, meal, service, and reasons for visiting are all developed clearly, and the request for newspaper coverage is explicit.
Conclude with a direct, professionally worded recommendation that links the food, service, ambience, and value without repeating the purpose.
Coherence and Cohesion
The content moves logically from introduction to meal and recommendation, but the single paragraph and one run-on transition weaken organisation.
Separate the opening request, dining experience, and recommendation into distinct paragraphs and add a full stop before introducing the visit.
Lexical Resource
The response uses varied descriptive vocabulary for food and ambience, but several choices are unnatural and one spelling error changes meaning.
Replace tasted celestial, mass people, and a worth visiting place with tasted excellent, the wider public, and well worth visiting, and correct each to eat.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A range of structures is attempted, but tense, sentence-boundary, article, and clause-control errors recur while meaning remains clear.
Proofread past-time references and sentence boundaries, using I visited last Sunday and ending the publication request before the next sentence.
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
You had a good meal at a local restaurant with your family. Write a letter to the newspaper. In your letter:
- tell the newspaper about the restaurant
- describe the meal you had
- explain why you think the restaurant is worth visiting
Your response
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