You have learned from a news article that a real estate company is going to build a shopping centre near your home. However, you think that the shopping centre should not be built there. Write a letter to the city counsellor. In your letter, say how you have learned about the plan explain how it is going to negatively affect the residential area where you live say what you think the city council should do about it

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Dear Sir, There is a builder's proposal that has been released in the newspaper about the mall construction work close to our locality.
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news has a depressing magnitude and we would like to oppose
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building work.
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, I did not take it much seriously, but I was astonished
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workers already started working at the site and
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noticed the building map was
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displayed on the screen. Few people witnessed the same news
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TV
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with a detailed plan.
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manufacturing would be impacting the local residents and society in many ways, like: kids will not be able to play freely in the park and
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of that all building supplier materials would be blocking the society entrance. In ,addition it would generate
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traffic problems in the future which is somewhere a major concern for the local
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and children. I would request authority to take prompt action and release the stay order to the realtor to halt the construction as soon as possible. I
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advise not to initiate
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a massive work closer to any residential area. Your help in
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SIncerely, Kamal Singh
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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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