You recently received an invitation to a party at your friend’s house. Write a letter to accept the invitation. In your letter: - explain why you are accepting the invitation - describe why you are looking forward to the dinner party - offer to bring a dish to share
Sample Response
Dear Mandeep,
I hope this letter finds youwill find you in good health and high spiritsradiant health and spirit. Yesterday, I receivedgot your letter, and I was delightedfelt very happy to receive your invitationget an invitation to your dinner partythis get-together, and I would be delighted to attendand I am sure to attend this event.
I can not express my excitement in words how excited I am to see you againin words to be with you after a long time. I remember when we met last time at Omaxe Mall in Patialathe omaxe mall Patiala two years ago. I think this dinner party will give us valuable timeis giving us valuable time to spend together, and I am very looking forward to seeing Gurwinderhappy to see Gurwinder after five years and havinghave dinner together. We will share our thoughts and oursome old memories.
If youu do not mind, let me bring Jeera rice and butter naan to share with all of you. I have recently enhanced my culinary skills and want to share some dishes to let you know the taste of food made by me.
Hope to meet this Friday at a dinner party.
Best wishes,Your friend,
Why this response received Band 6.5
The letter responds warmly to the invitation, covers every requested point, and gives personal reasons for anticipating the dinner. Its main weakness is uneven language control, with several unnatural expressions, sentence chains, and an inappropriate text-message abbreviation; the priority is to retain the friendly tone while using natural informal-letter phrasing and more accurately controlled sentences.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
All three bullet points are clearly covered with relevant personal detail, and the friendly register is generally suitable despite occasional excessive formality.
Use a consistently natural informal tone from the opening through the sign-off while keeping the specific personal details.
Coherence and Cohesion
The response is logically divided by purpose and easy to follow, though some ideas are joined in long chains and repeated.
Break up the longer sentences and avoid repeating happiness and together so each paragraph advances one clear idea.
Lexical Resource
There is adequate variety, including language about memories and cooking, but several collocations are awkward and the abbreviation u is unsuitable.
Replace unnatural or overly formal phrases with idiomatic choices such as spend quality time, try my cooking, and you.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
The writer attempts varied sentence forms, but recurring problems with tense, articles, sentence coordination, and phrasing limit accuracy while meaning remains clear.
Review tense consistency and divide heavily coordinated sentences into shorter, accurately punctuated units.
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
You recently received an invitation to a party at your friend’s house. Write a letter to accept the invitation. In your letter:
- explain why you are accepting the invitation
- describe why you are looking forward to the dinner party
- offer to bring a dish to share
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