You want to sell your television. You think a friend of yours might like to buy it from you. Write a letter to your friend. In your letter: - Explain why you are selling the television. - Describe the television. - Suggest a date when your friend can come and see it.
Sample Response
Hi Surya, Hope you're doing well. Last week when we metwhen we had met during Ravi's party, youyou'd told me that you're planning to buy a television. Well, I'm selling my television and I'm hoping that you might be interested in buying itinterested to buy it. You might have heard that I'veI'd got a full-timefull time job opportunity in Canada and I'll be movingmigrating very soon. Since, I cannot go there carrying this television along with me, I want to sell it here, before I leave and you're the first one on the top of my head. You might have some questions about the product. Well, I'm here to clarify them for you. The product is MI Smart TV, 60 inches screen. It was bought two months ago at Bajaj Electronics and it has a two-yeartwo year product warranty. As for the specificationsComing to the specifications, it'sIt's an HDa hd model with a curved displaywith curved display and has HDMI, USB, AUX and other connection portsand has all the HDMI, USB, AUX and other display ports. If you're interested and want to inspect the television, please do come over to my house this weekendon the weekend, sinceas I'll be off work and I'll give you more details about it. Let me know what you thinkLet me know your decision. Best regardsRegards, Suresh Panduga.
Why this response received Band 6.5
The letter communicates its purpose clearly, covers every requested point, and gives useful details about the television in an appropriately friendly voice. Its main limitation is recurring awkward grammar and word choice, compounded by presenting the whole message as one block; the highest-priority improvement is to divide the letter into purposeful paragraphs and edit collocations and sentence structures for greater naturalness.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Achievement
The purpose is clear, and the move to Canada, the television's features, and a weekend visit address and develop all three bullet points in a suitable informal tone.
Offer a specific day and time for the visit so the final bullet point is more precise and actionable.
Coherence and Cohesion
The message progresses logically from the sale and its reason to product details and the proposed visit, with clear connective language.
Separate the opening, reason for selling, description, and invitation into paragraphs instead of presenting the entire letter as one block.
Lexical Resource
The response uses a useful range of vocabulary for relocation and television specifications, though several collocations and forms sound unnatural.
Replace awkward phrases such as 'interested to buy' and 'the first one on the top of my head' with natural expressions.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
A mix of simple and complex structures conveys the message clearly, but tense choice, articles, punctuation, and noun modifiers contain recurring errors.
Review tense consistency and noun phrases, especially forms such as 'when we met,' 'a 60-inch screen,' and 'a two-year warranty.'
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IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
You want to sell your television. You think a friend of yours might like to buy it from you. Write a letter to your friend. In your letter:
- Explain why you are selling the television.
- Describe the television.
- Suggest a date when your friend can come and see it.
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