You recently discovered that there are plans to construct an airport in your locality. Write a letter to the local authority. In your letter, you should: • explain how you knew about the plans • describe the negative effect of the construction on your neighborhood • suggest a possible solution to the problem.

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Dear Sir, I am writing
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letter to discuss
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the news clipping which I came across in our daily newspaper regarding the construction of an airport
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to our village community. The article explains the proposed plan and even my local authority was
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notified about
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new development in our area. Development is a necessity for generating Income for our city, but the development should not harm agriculture.The area where the airport was proposed was a complete cultivation
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and it belongs to local formers whose lives completely depend on
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paddy harvesting income
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place is popularly known as the rice bowl of the state. As the proposed
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is a lifeline for formers and taking huge
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area will create food scarcity for feature generations. After seeing
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proposal we organized a meeting with all our local representatives and proposed a new resolution as
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of taking agricultural
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we requested authorities to consider the
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on the other side of the village where we have enough open
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and which is near to many industries which export their products to the international market. Kindly look into the proposed plan once again and please consider the local resident proposal on an alternate plan to save agriculture Yours faithfully, Chandra Sekhar
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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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