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13/11/2013 0 Comment by Jeffrey

As I mentioned before that it’s very important to get

your tone right in General Training IELTS Writing Task

1. Here are some good greetings and salutations in an

informal letter.

Friends usually have names ;-) so address him/herwith a name: begin the letter with Dear Joey/ Tim/Rebecca , etc.

Begin your letter with some general statements. Refer

to the letter you have received from your friend and

thank him/her for it or apologies for the fact that you

have not answered the last letter soon enough.

Use the proper register. The letter is supposed to be

informal so you can use contractions , informal linking

words like well, by the way, anyway, so, colloquial

expressions, etc.

You can use more-conversation-like statements or

questions in your letter: You know that I had this

exam, right? You think he will be able to come to

the party?

Use questions to ask about your friend – arrange the

next meeting, send greetings to his/her friends and

family, etc.

End your letter in informal way: Best wishes; Love;

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Regards.

Dear + first name, (E.g. Dear Jeffrey,)

Greetings:

I hope you’re well.

Hope all’s well.

Thank you for your letter. It was nice to hear from

you.

I'm sorry I haven't written for so long but…

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04/10/2013 2 Comments by Jeffrey

An important “stock” phrase in an IELTS GeneralTraining Writing Task 1 is the final word or phrase youuse before you sign your name in the letter.

Here are some common sigh off phrases appearbelow:

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30/09/2013 4 Comments by Jeffrey

Here is an IELTS General Training Writing Task 1practice.

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Write a letter to the editor of the local newspaper

;

- Where did you hear this news and your opinion

- The reason why you protest it

- Make suggestions for what people can or

should do to stop the development.

You should write at least 150 words.

You do NOT need to write your address or the

address of the newspaper.

Start the letter as follows:

Dear……..,

Sample answer:


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27/09/2013 1 Comment by Jeffrey

Task Achievement (answering the question) is onefourth of your total mark and it is an area in whicheveryone should do well in IELTS General TrainingWriting Task 1. This is often, however, not the case.

What you must do is to write a letter, which would fully

answer the needs of the problem in a real life

situation. For example, a question I have seen

somewhere gives the candidate the following task:

You have some library books that you are unable

to return as a member of your family in another

city has fallen sick and you have had to go and

look after them.

Write a letter to the library. In your letter, you

should:

– Explaining the situation.

– Apologize for the inconvenience called

– And say what you are going to do.

You should write at least 150 words.

This seems a fairly typical IELTS General Training

Task 1 writing question. Answering the question in a

way that will get you a good Task Fulfillment grade

needs a number of things for you to do.

1) Write at least 150 words.

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Writing less does not answer the question, which tells

you to write at least 150 words. If you write less than

140 words, the examiner marking your paper will give

you a maximum of 5 for Task Fulfilment or even less.

2) Fully do all the things that the question asks

you.

In this case it asks you to do 3 main things:

- explain the situation

- apologize for the inconvenience

- say what you are going to do


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Here is a quick guidance of punctuation.

1. Use full-stops (/ . /) only at the end of a sentence.

Begin sentences with a capital letter. Proper nounsalso require capital letters.

2. Use commas (/ , /) to separate parts of a sentence

to avoid any confusion with meaning. Additionalinformation is enclosed within commas.

e.g. the pollution of rivers, which is often caused by

chemical waste and fertilizer, is causing enormous

problems for fishermen, especially in Britain. (The

comma after ‘fishermen’ ensures that ‘especially’

connects with ‘Britain’ not ‘fishermen’.)

A comma is used after most connectives (linking

words), and usually before and after a connective inmid-sentence. Commas separate clauses in mostconditional sentences.

e.g. Therefore, the use of chemicals on farms should

be better controlled. However, even if such laws were

passed tomorrow, most rivers would take years to

recover.

3. Semi-colons (/ ; /) are used to separate

sub-groups within lists, but more often to join twoindependent clauses that are grammatically completebut closely related. However, in the latter case, you

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can always use a full-stop instead.

e.g. Chemical waste from factories is still drained into

river systems; it is hard to believe that this practice is

still allowed by law in some areas.

4. You may use a colon (/ : /) if you need to draw

attention to what is to follow.

e.g. The environment is important for the following

reasons:

5. Use quotation marks (/ “ ” / ) for quotes and titles.

Apostrophes (/ ‘ ’ / ) show possession or contraction.

6. Do not use contractions (e.g. don’t , shouldn’t ,

can’t etc.) in formal writing. Use the full form

instead. However, you may use them in the General

Training Task 1, in the case of writing an informalletter.


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