You are arranged to visit a friend in Canada but an important event at home now means that you must change the dates of the visit. Write a letter to your friend.In your letter. Explain the important event. Apologise for the situation. Suggest a new arrangements.

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Dear Amy, I am incredibly sorry for not having been in touch recently. Life has been a bit hectic. I hope you and your family are all well. I am writing
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letter to tell you some changes regarding my trip to Canada. As I told you in my previous letter, my son Jason has graduated from Melbourne University
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year. Due to the COVID pandemic, his graduation ceremony has not been organized.
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week, we received an email stating
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ceremony will be arranged in December which is the same date as my trip to Canada. You can imagine how important and meaningful
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event is to my lovely son, so I think I have to cancel my trip to your country. I feel extremely guilty for the inconvenience raised to you. I know we have been arranging
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holiday
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a couple of months, and you have made a massive number of preparations in terms of accommodation and transportation. I hope you can forgive me after hearing the reason. I reckon I will be free after
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event, so we can delay our journey to January 2023. Please let me know whether the new plan is ideal for you or not. Drop me in line at your earliest convenience. Best wishes, Nina
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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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