A friend from another country is moving to your city for work. He / she has asked you for advice about living in your city. Write a letter to your friend. In your letter • suggest an interesting part of the city to live in • describe the public transport in your city • say how your friend can meet new people there

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Dear Sarah, How are you doing? I’ve been so happy since I know that you’re going to live in São Paulo, congrats on your new job, you deserve it! I believe we can spend some time together as we used to do when I lived in Montreal. You don’t need to worry I can show you the best part of
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. I highly recommend you rent an apartment downtown, more specifically close to Paulista Avenue, I know it might be a bit expensive. But believe in me! In
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location you’ll be able to save money and time as your office is in the centre of the
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, you can go to work using the easy get around using the public transportation. Unfortunately, in the North of the
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the public transportation is too crowded so, avoid living in
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region. I’ve been living in the South of Sao Paulo since I got married, for ,me
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region is so convenient as me
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my husband work from home. Don’t be worried about making friends, São Paulo is a great
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, people here are so friendly and there are a lot of bars and restaurants around the
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, I have some single friends who came from another
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as well. If you want, I can introduce them to you. Please, let me know what time you’ll exactly arrive at Guarulhos airport. I want to pick you up and we could go to my favourite restaurant. With love, Raquel
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The Closing

The style of the letter determine how you have to close it.

Check out the suggested closing sentences for each type of letter in the General IELTS Test. The closing sentence should be the last sentence of your letter.

Formal style (To someone you have not met, whose name you don’t know)

  • Yours faithfully,

Semi-formal (To someone you may or may not have met, whose last name you know)

  • Yours sincerely,

Informal (To someone you know well, whose first name you know and use)

  • Best regards,
  • Warm wishes,

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