You celebrated your birthday with some friends last week in a restaurant. It was a great success and you and your friends enjoyed the evening very much. Write a letter to the restaurant. In your letter: - thank the restaurant for the successful evening - mention the food, service and atmosphere - suggest improvements that could make things better
Sample Response
Dear Sir or Madam, I am one of your regular customers and celebrated my birthday at your restaurant last week. I would like to thank you for the wonderful hospitality and delicious food, which madedelicious food which made the celebration especially enjoyableceremony worth enjoyable. I must mention that all the arrangements were made perfectly and thanks to you and your professional staff. We enjoyed the scrumptious food we were servedfood served to us including both vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishesincluding both vegetarian and non-vegetarian. Moreover, I wasam impressed with your staff's politeness and prompt servicethe politeness and the prompt service of your staff. The background lighting was superb and the music selection was excellentamazing, and they enhanced the ambienceadded more to the ambience of the party hall. I would like to make some suggestions to make it one of the best restaurants in townmake it the restaurant of the town. The plants around the driveway need better caremore attention. They are not in a very appealing condition.appealing state! In additionIn addition to that, some pieces of crockerysome crockery items have smallslight cracks and need to be replaced. Thank you once again for making my birthday a success. Yours faithfully, Mark Nielsen
Why this response received Band 7.0
The letter fully addresses the successful evening, comments specifically on the food, service and atmosphere, and offers two practical improvements in an appropriately appreciative tone. Its main limitation is uneven language control, with awkward phrases such as 'worth enjoyable' and occasional tense or reference problems. Prioritize clearer sentence construction and divide the thanks, praise and suggestions into distinct body paragraphs.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The purpose is immediately clear, all three bullet points are well developed, and the formal appreciative tone is consistently suitable.
Make each improvement explicitly constructive by briefly stating how attention to the plants and crockery would enhance future visits.
Coherence and Cohesion
Ideas progress logically from thanks to detailed praise and then suggestions, although the single-block presentation and a few loose references reduce polish.
Use separate body paragraphs for the positive feedback and the proposed improvements, with one clear focus in each.
Lexical Resource
Vocabulary is varied and generally precise, including 'hospitality,' 'scrumptious,' 'prompt service,' 'ambience,' and 'crockery,' despite several awkward collocations.
Replace unnatural phrases such as 'worth enjoyable' and 'restaurant of the town' with concise idiomatic alternatives.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
The response uses a good range of sentence forms, but recurring errors in complementation, tense consistency, ellipsis and pronoun reference remain noticeable.
Proofread verb patterns and noun phrases, especially 'made the evening enjoyable,' 'vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes,' and consistent past tense.
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
You celebrated your birthday with some friends last week in a restaurant. It was a great success and you and your friends enjoyed the evening very much. Write a letter to the restaurant. In your letter:
- thank the restaurant for the successful evening
- mention the food, service and atmosphere
- suggest improvements that could make things better
Your response
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