You are taking a course at a local college. The deadline for your project was last week but you haven't finished it. Write a letter to your lecturer. In your letter introduce yourself explain why you haven't handed in the project yet request more time to do it.

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Dear Professor, My name is XYZ and I am a student in the Biology and Technology course. I understand that an assignment to do some research on microbes was given
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month and the
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day to submit it is in two days.I do need to let you that ,
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unfortunately
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I have been unable to complete the given task.I
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full time in a restaurant and for the
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few ,days I have been working extra shifts so that I can save some money to pay for my
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semester.After my college ,hours I had directly to go
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and it was about 8 hours shift and on the rest of the
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days I worked 15 hours.Being exhausted and tired after
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it was impossible for me to focus on any school
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. I would be appreciative if you can extend the deadline by one week since I have managed to save money for my
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4 months course and I am off from
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the
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entire week and I will be able to finish my assignment during that time period. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Yours truly, XYZ
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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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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Dear [Lecturer's Name],
  • currently enrolled
  • regrettably inform
  • unforeseen circumstances
  • mitigating factors
  • extension
  • complete the project
  • priority
  • Thank you for your understanding
  • Best regards / Yours sincerely
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