You have recently visited a museum. Now write a letter to your friend about the museum you have visited. Write a letter to him/ her. In your letter, write: - where you went - what you saw there - how you felt about it
Sample Response
Dear Ali, Hope you are doing well. I've something very interesting to share with you, and that's why I'm writing to you today. Last Thursday, my dad and I decided to take a trip to the Quetta Museum, a stunning archaeological museuma stunning Archaeological Museum, located on Steward Road, Balochistan. He wanted me to learn more about the history of our country, and this museum was a perfect place to startperfect place to start with. The museum is full of historical artefacts from the periodartefacts relating to the period before the separation of Pakistan and India. Among other things, it exhibits the first-ever constitution drafted for our country, and the first-ever proposed national anthem that was hand
Why this response received Band 6.0
The opening has an appropriately friendly tone and gives clear, specific information about where the writer went and what was seen. However, the response is substantially under length, ends mid-sentence, and entirely omits how the visit felt, so the communicative purpose is incomplete. The highest priority is to finish the account and develop the missing personal reaction in a proper closing paragraph.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The letter addresses the location and exhibits with relevant detail, but it is unfinished, substantially under length, and omits the required feelings about the visit.
Complete the description, explain the writer's personal reaction in detail, and add an informal closing while reaching at least 150 words.
Coherence and Cohesion
The available ideas follow a sensible sequence from the visit's purpose to the exhibits, but the abrupt ending prevents a complete progression.
Organise the response into an opening, a developed account of the visit, a reaction paragraph, and a natural closing.
Lexical Resource
Despite the short response, the vocabulary used for the museum and historical exhibits is varied and generally precise.
Extend this range with language for personal reactions and recommendations while avoiding unnecessary capitalisation in 'archaeological museum'.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Most completed sentences show good control of varied structures, but the final sentence is unfinished and the opening contraction is awkward.
Complete every sentence and use the more natural form 'I've got something very interesting to share with you'.
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
You have recently visited a museum. Now write a letter to your friend about the museum you have visited. Write a letter to him/ her. In your letter, write:
- where you went
- what you saw there
- how you felt about it
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