Your university lecturer gave you an assignment. You won’t be able to submit your assignment on time. Write to your lecturer asking for an extension. In the letter describe the situation explain why your assignment will be late say when you will be able to hand in your assignment You should write at least 150 words.

Dear Sir I am writing you
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letter to request your assistance concerning the matter of my assignment that I won't be able to submit. Actually, I thought that I send you
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project earlier. Because it is my
first
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project in the university and I tried hard to complete it before the deadline. But I am afraid that I can not submit it by the deadline. The reason is that unfortunately, I met an accident
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week and broke my arm.
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, the doctor advised me to take a rest of 20 or 25 days. So, I would like to request you please give me some additional time to complete my assignment.
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, if you want, I can send you my rough notes which I have prepared till now but those are not yet finished. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours faithfully. Lucy.

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Word Count

IELTS says that you should write a minimum of 150 words in writing task 1. If you go under word count you will lose marks in task response.

A very long letter will not give you a higher band score.

Aim for between 160 to 190 words in writing task 1. This will ensure a concise letter and will be realistic in terms of time management. You have only 20 minutes to write the letter and you need around 5 minutes of planning time, so you will not be able to write a long letter in 15 minutes.

Topic Vocabulary:
  • assignment extension
  • submission deadline
  • unexpected circumstances
  • unforeseen situation
  • mitigate
  • explain the delay
  • commitment
  • reasonable deadline
  • sincerely apologize
  • inconvenience
  • academic performance
  • due date
  • hand in the assignment
  • extension request
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