Your neighbours have recently written to you to complain about the noise from your house/ flat. Write a letter to your neighbours. In your letter explain the reasons for the noise apologise describe what action you will take You should write at least 150 words.

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Dear Sophie,
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is to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated 1st March 2023. I write in response to your complaint about the noise coming from my flat. Thank you for bringing it to my notice.
This
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unusually loud sound is a result of my nephews and nieces who came to spend some holidays at my place with their cousins. They are 6 in number including my own children and they are always playing various games and running around the house,
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the noise.
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, they sometimes increase the volume of the television so loud that they would hardly be able to hear themselves thereby shouting on top of their voices to communicate with one another.
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, I am deeply sorry for
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disturbance and inconvenience my family and I have cost you. It was not an intentional act, please accept our apology. That being said, I have made plans to stop the noise and the inconvenience by engaging them all during the day with some academic exercises to keep them busy.
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, I added a two-hour siesta to their daily schedule, so that they can rest.
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, they will all be resuming school next week, so my nephews and nieces will be leaving
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weekend to prepare for resumption, and everything will be back to normal.
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, thank you in advance for accepting our apology and once again we are sorry for the disturbance.
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Faithfully, Temi.
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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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