For the past year, you have been a member of a local club. Now you want to discontinue your membership. Write a letter to the club secretary. In your letter: - state what type of membership you have and how you have paid for this - give details on how you have benefited from the club - explain why you want to leave
Sample Response
Dear Mr Anderson, I am writing to inform you that I have decided to discontinue my membership with the 'In-Shape Fitness and Sports Club' effective from 1st September 2025. I haveowned a basic membership and received many benefitsnumerous advantages from it. Now I am asking you to cancelseeking your cooperation to cancel my membership. I joined your club on 2nd July 2022 as a basic member and thoroughly enjoyed my membership of such a wonderful clubassociation with such a wonderful club with excellentastounding instructors who are highly skilled and friendly. I have always paid my monthly fee using my Visa creditCredit card issued by NIFC Bank. My primary objective in joiningprimary objective to join the club was to improve my tennis skills. I have always enjoyed watching tennis competitions and wanted to play this sport. But I wanted to learn from an expert and your club was the excellent one to fulfil my dream. In additionOn top of that, your staffstaff members were very welcoming and the instructors have helped me improve my skillsthe instructors have improved my skills to thean extent that I won the intercity tournament held in January 2023. I think it would not have been possible if I had not joined the club. Unfortunately, my company has recently asked me to relocate to a different city. Even though I would have loved to come to the club, I, unfortunately, cannot do it due to the distance. Please send meYou can send me a confirmation of my membership cancellationconfirmation letter of my membership cancellation to [email address]. All my payments are up to date and I will pay my membership fee through August 2025pay my membership fee up to August 2025. Yours sincerely, John White
Why this response received Band 7.5
The letter achieves its purpose very effectively, covering the membership, payment method, benefits, and reason for leaving with specific, convincing detail and an appropriately formal tone. Its main limitations are a dense, unbroken body and several awkward expressions that weaken an otherwise fluent presentation. The highest-priority improvement is to organise the body by function and replace non-idiomatic combinations with more natural professional phrasing.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The purpose is immediately clear, all three bullet points are fully developed, and the formal register suits the club secretary.
Refine the opening by stating the cancellation once and using the saved space for any practical membership detail.
Coherence and Cohesion
Information progresses logically from membership details through benefits to the reason for leaving, with effective linking throughout.
Divide the body into separate paragraphs for membership and payment, benefits, and the cancellation reason to make the structure easier to scan.
Lexical Resource
A broad vocabulary communicates the experience precisely, although combinations such as owning a membership and the excellent one are not fully natural.
Use more idiomatic collocations, such as held a basic membership and the ideal club, while retaining the existing range.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A varied mix of simple and complex structures is generally accurate, with only occasional article and preposition problems.
Improve control of noun patterns and articles in phrases such as objective in joining and an excellent club.
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
For the past year, you have been a member of a local club. Now you want to discontinue your membership. Write a letter to the club secretary. In your letter:
- state what type of membership you have and how you have paid for this
- give details on how you have benefited from the club
- explain why you want to leave
Your response
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