You are planning a short visit to a city where one of your relatives lives. Write a letter to your relative. In your letter: • Explain when and how long you will be in town. • Ask whether you can stay at their home. • Offer to pay for yourself. You do not need to write any addresses. Begin your letter as follows: Dear ...,

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Dear Kira, How are you doing? It’s been an incredibly long time! I am writing to tell you that I have already bought the plane tickets and I am going to visit you soon! Unfortunately, I am very busy at work so I was able to book my trip only for 2 days. I arrive on Sunday at 3 pm and my departure is on Tuesday at 8 pm. By the way, I would like to ask you if there is a possibility to stay at your home for these days? I was looking up the hotel list on the travel website but everything is too expensive for me.
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, I really miss you and I think it will be nice if we could spend these days together as we did before. Anyway, if there is a necessity I could pay to stay at your apartments. I can’t wait to see you soon! Looking forward to hearing from you. Yours sincerely, Eva
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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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