Your local newspaper had an advertisement asking people to help with environmental projects in your area. Write a letter to the project manager to offer your help. In your letter: - Describe a local environmental issue in your area. - Explain how you can help? - Suggest how the problem could be avoided in future?
Sample Response
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am Ankitha, a resident of the Dolfin community. I came across your advert in the regional newspaper published yesterday regarding the need for volunteers to assist with environmental projects in the neighbourhood. I am writing to youthis epistle to offerprovide my assistance and make our vicinity a better place to livereside.
To begin withTo commence, I would like to bring to your attentionnotice the largecopious amounts of garbage that accumulateswhich gets accumulated frequently in our area. There are no adequate disposal pits to throw the waste. ResidentsThe dwellers are unsure where to dispose of their garbageoblivious of where to throw garbage. They are randomly disposing everywhere, even on streets and roads, which eventually leads to foul smells and a lack of cleanliness. This is one of the seriouscritical problems we are experiencing in our locality.
Therefore, I would like to take responsibility for cleaning the streetspaths regularly. I have also askedfurther informed some of my neighbours to help with the clean-upassist me with the cleaning. We will hire a mini truck to dispose of waste in the waste-disposal siteburial pits located 3 miles from our area.
In addition, I request you to inform the authorities to construct a burial ground in our vicinity so that it is convenient for residents to dispose of garbage correctly, and this hurdle will be resolved soon.
Thank you in advance, and I anticipate hearing from you soon.
Why this response received Band 6.5
The letter is well organised and fully engages with the request by describing the rubbish problem, offering practical help, and proposing a longer-term measure. Its main weakness is imprecise and sometimes unsuitable vocabulary, especially the references to burial pits and a burial ground, which obscures the intended waste solution. The highest priority is to replace forced wording with accurate environmental and waste-management terms.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
All bullet points are covered with relevant detail, and the formal offer of assistance achieves the communicative purpose.
Make the prevention proposal more credible by requesting proper waste bins, collection services, or a designated disposal facility.
Coherence and Cohesion
Information progresses logically through the issue, proposed assistance, and future solution, with effective paragraphing and referencing.
Use less mechanical paragraph openers and connect the final preventive measure more directly to the rubbish problem.
Lexical Resource
A reasonably broad vocabulary is attempted, but unnatural choices such as epistle, burial pits, and burial ground frequently reduce precision.
Prefer natural formal terms such as letter, waste-disposal site, collection point, residents, and neighbourhood clean-up.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A range of sentence forms is used successfully, although agreement and verb-pattern errors appear in several places.
Correct structures such as garbage which accumulates and residents dispose of it everywhere, while checking subject-verb agreement throughout.
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
Your local newspaper had an advertisement asking people to help with environmental projects in your area. Write a letter to the project manager to offer your help. In your letter:
- Describe a local environmental issue in your area.
- Explain how you can help?
- Suggest how the problem could be avoided in future?
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