You have recently migrated to another country. Now write a letter to your friend to describe your present life. In your letter say: - when you have moved to this country - why you chose this country - how things are now for you
Sample Response
Dear Kumar, Hope you are doing fine. I'm so happy that you asked how life in Canada is goingyou have finally decided to migrate to Canada, and I would say that it is a timely decision considering your career and children's education. As you know, I migratedAs you know I have migrated to Ontario, Canada last January and we are doing fine. It was a big decision to migrate to another country but I am delighted that we have finally settled in. It's been almost four months, and we already feel at home. The different weather was perhaps the hardest part to adapt to, but we areto adapt to but we are doing very welldoing excellent. As you know, Canada has one of the highest immigration rates due to better job opportunities, cultural diversity, economic strength, and people’s tolerance of immigrantspeople's tolerance to immigrants. Another reason was thatOn top of that, the high-quality educationsuperior education this country offers is unparalleled. Canada’s affordable education system has contributed to its appeal to immigrants and I primarily considered my daughter's education before deciding to migrate to another country. I have foundmanaged a job in an accounting firm and the pay scale is really lucrative. We have rented a house near Ria's school and it's around a 30-minute drive30 minutes drive away from my office. Canadians are very nice people, especially Ontarians, and I have already madeCanadians are very nice people, especially Ontarians and I have already made a few friends. Home to Niagara Falls, Ontario is full of things to do and we are so amazed to explore new places each week. You can never get bored of living here since there's much variety in everything. We have plenty of options to occupy our time. I would love to hear from you. Please write back when you have time.Please do write back to me. Warm wishes, Ashim
Why this response received Band 8.0
The letter gives a detailed, engaging account of the move to Canada, with clear reasons, a warm personal voice, and flexible vocabulary that makes the present situation easy to understand. Its main limitation is presentation as one long paragraph, compounded by a few unnatural collocations and minor tense or punctuation slips. The highest-priority improvement is to divide the update into focused paragraphs for the move, reasons, and current life, then polish idiomatic phrasing.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The letter gives a clear, friendly update about moving to Canada, the reasons for choosing it, and current life there. It also addresses the friend personally, although the opening focus on the friend’s own migration slightly distracts from the requested description of the writer’s present life.
Start more directly with your own move, then use the friend’s plans as a brief conversational link.
Coherence and Cohesion
Ideas are logically ordered and the letter develops each bullet with useful detail. The response is one long block, so paragraphing is the main weakness despite generally smooth progression.
Use separate paragraphs for the date of the move, reasons for choosing Canada, and current work, home, and social life.
Lexical Resource
The vocabulary is flexible and topic-appropriate, with phrases such as “cultural diversity”, “economic strength”, and “lucrative”. A few phrases are unnatural or overstated, including “managed a job” and “doing excellent”.
Keep the range, but replace unnatural collocations with idiomatic phrases such as “found a job” and “doing very well”.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
There is a strong range of sentence structures and mostly accurate grammar. Minor errors occur in tense, missing commas, and noun phrases such as “30 minutes drive”.
Check present perfect with past time markers and add commas after introductory clauses.
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
You have recently migrated to another country. Now write a letter to your friend to describe your present life. In your letter say:
- when you have moved to this country
- why you chose this country
- how things are now for you
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