You have recently changed your job and started working for a new company. Write a letter to an English-speaking friend. In your letter: •explain why you changed your previous job •describe your new job •tell him/her your other news

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Dear Chichi, I hope you and your family are doing great and that you are enjoying your new apartment. I have not been able to visit as I promised
due to
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some irregularities in my workplace. If you would remember, I mentioned to you during my visit that my supervisor antagonizes me in obvious ways at
work
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and how badly it was affecting my psychological well-being. The experience made me feel very unsafe at the job so much so that I began experiencing a level of anxiety disorder each time I think of reporting to the same assignment every new day,
however
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, I continued to
work
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there so I to complete the three-year bond that I signed with the company.
Although
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I endured so many unfair treatments from my immediate superior, the
last
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straw that broke the camel's back and was a deal breaker for me was being suspended for an offence I clearly didn't commit. During my handover on a Wednesday, I did due justice to every procedure and went home but when I resumed the following day, I was verbally informed that I have been suspended because I failed to give instructions on a routine for one of the sick ones in the ward. I wasn't even given an opportunity to prove my innocence and that was the moment that I decided to quit the job. Despite the fact that they wrote me a mail
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I was away, informing me that they have been able to trace the mix-up to another staff and
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offered me apologies; I
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, used the three weeks' suspension as an opportunity to submit applications to various agencies and before it's expiration, I was invited for about three interviews and one of them offered me an appointment with a better salary package and more flexible
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hours as I am to care for only visiting patients, unlike my former workplace where I cared for both people on admission
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visiting patients. All these happened three months ago and I must say, I am more relaxed working with
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agency.
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to my change of job which is the major purpose of writing to you, I want to
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let you know that I rented a new accommodation
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the fact that my new
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location is quite far from my former home which necessitated my relocation. My recent address is house number 9, Halima Abubakar close, off secretariat road, Lambia. I will really appreciate it if you can come and check
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new apartment out any time soon. Please call me on 07089524786 once you are ready to come. Best regards, Onyi
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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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