A friend has agreed to look after your house and pet while you are on holiday. Write a letter to your friend. In your letter • give contact details for when you are away • give instructions about how to care for your pet • describe other household duties Write at least 150 words. You do NOT need to write any addresses.

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Dear John, I hope you are doing well and enjoyed the party
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night. If you remember, I have planned my holidays
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next
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week and as per our
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conversation
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you will stay at my home for that week. I have already set up everything for you in advance and have made few notes
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if there is
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emergency. You can contact me on my new number 708-549-7888 and I have activated
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box on it, to get messages if there is no network. As
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already familiar with my dog – Jack and I believe he will not give you any trouble. I have booked an appointment with his doctor for Thursday, so please take him to the hospital for monthly vaccination. One more thing, his food bucket is already full, so don’t give any outside food to him.
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but not least, I have placed an envelope for
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month’s Utilities bills. So, please make sure you will drop
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while going to
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on Monday. I was expecting
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of
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yesterday, but he reschedule his visit to Monday Evening, and he will contact you directly before coming.
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the end, I am very thankful for your help and I owe you big time for
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. See you soon. With Warm wishes, Ketan Sharma
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Use cohesive linking words accurately and appropriately

Linking words are very important in your essay.

To score effectively on your IELTS exam, you should make an effort to implement short concise sentences coupled with linking words.

Almost every sentence in your essay should have a linking word of some sort.

In fact, the only sentences that can omit linking words are your background sentence and thesis.

Linking word examples:

  • firstly
  • secondly
  • thirdly
  • in additional
  • moreover
  • also
  • for example
  • for instance
  • therefore
  • however
  • although
  • even though
  • despite

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