You recently took a trip to another city, and you had a plan to visit your friend who is living there. However, you couldn’t see him/her. Write a letter to your friend, and Apologize for not being able to meet. Give your reasons. Suggest how you can meet some other time.

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Dear Jane How have you been
recently
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? Hope
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letter finds you well! Anyway, I thought I'd just drop you a quick line to say sorry since I couldn't meet you a couple of days ago.
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, I'm
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wondering if you'll be available
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weekend. I arrived in London on Monday
last
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week and planned to see you in
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day's afternoon.
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, I received some urgent tasks from my supervisor that night and was asked to finish them ASAP.
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, for the
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couple of
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I was just staying in the hotel and dealing with my work. Once again, I gonna say sorry about that. But guess what? I just got to know that I'm going to London once again to attend a meeting
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week! After the meeting, I'll be off work for three days. So I guess maybe we can meet each other and have a meal on Saturday or Sunday evening, whichever is more convenient. Just let me know if you are OK with that and you can phone me personally on my new number 88888888. I am looking forward to hearing from you soon. Best Regards, Chalk.
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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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