Write a letter to a friend telling him/her about an interesting website that you have found recently. In your letter: - say how you found it - how it can help - how you use it
Sample Response
Dear Spencer,
Hope you're doing fine. I'm writing todayToday I'm writing to tell you about a fascinating website that I've found recently and have been using ever since!
The URL of this website is fooddecider.net, and it's basically a website that helps users decide on a meal or food itema menu or a food item. A week or so ago, I searched Googlelooked at Google to help me choose between two mealsto choose between two menus and this website appeared in the search resultspopped up in the Google search result. Now I feel lucky that I have found it. Since I know how much you love to eat healthy foodsfood and often struggle to decide what to eatget confused about what to eat for lunch or dinner. I believe it can help you immensely. Moreover, it is fun and informative at the same time.
Whenever you enter the name of a menu or food item in its user-friendly interface, it will explain the nutritional valuefood values of that item or menu and let you know how many calories you are going to consume. It will also advise you on which foods to avoidwhat menus to avoid and at which times of dayat what time of the day. Moreover, if you are undecided between two meals or food itemstwo sets of menus or items, it will pick one for you based on the nutritional valuenutritious values. And that is exactly how I use it. I simply enter a food name or enter two meal optionsinput two menus, and it does the rest for me.
I hope you'llyou'd like it as much as I do. Hope to see you soon.
Yours truly,
Ivan
Why this response received Band 7.5
The letter fully addresses its purpose and all three bullet points with a friendly tone, clear personal relevance, and useful detail about the website's features. Its main limitation is a cluster of awkward collocations and one sentence fragment, which occasionally makes otherwise fluent ideas sound less natural. The highest-priority improvement is to use more precise food-related wording and review sentence boundaries while preserving the strong development.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The letter clearly explains how the website was found, how it can help, and how the writer uses it, with relevant supporting detail.
Refine the recommendation by stating more precisely which foods or dishes the site's advice helps the writer choose.
Coherence and Cohesion
The response progresses logically from discovery and usefulness to the writer's own use, with clear paragraphing and generally effective linking.
Reduce the repeated use of Moreover and connect the friend's needs to the recommendation without using a sentence fragment.
Lexical Resource
Vocabulary is varied and appropriate to the topic, although several food-related collocations are unnatural or imprecise.
Use natural phrases such as nutritional information, nutritional value, and dishes instead of food values, nutritious values, and sets of menus.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A good range of simple and complex structures is mostly accurate, but a dependent clause is incorrectly presented as a complete sentence.
Attach the clause beginning Since I know to the following main clause and check sentence boundaries throughout.
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
Write a letter to a friend telling him/her about an interesting website that you have found recently. In your letter:
- say how you found it
- how it can help
- how you use it
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