You have discovered a lot of rubbish in a lake near where you live. In the past, the lake had always been clean. Write a letter to the local council. In your letter: describe the type of rubbish that you saw in the lake explain where you think the waste has come from suggest what the council should do about the problem

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Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing
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to express my concerns about the city lake, which is currently becoming a waste dumping area.
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, let me explain my observations. Starting from the
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week of
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month, I saw some polyethene products floating on the waters of the lake, and
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later the western part of the lake became a dumping site of leftovers. I suspect
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waste is coming from the newly opened hotel, as I can not remember something like
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happening before their arrival.
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, some of the plastic bottles that I saw floating on the water, are currently used in the hotel to serve their guests.
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, I would like to suggest conducting an immediate investigation and penalising those who are responsible for doing these things.
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, it would be great if you can install a CCTV system around
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area to monitor bad behaviours like
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. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours faithfully, Supun

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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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