Last month you had an overseas holiday with some friends where you stayed at their house. They have just sent you some holiday photos. Write a letter to your friends, in your letter: •thank them for the holiday and the photos. •explain why you didn’t write earlier. •invite them to come and stay with you.

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Hi Sonia and Nitesh, I hope you both are in great health. It was great to see you

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month. I just wanted to say thanks for the amazing

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I spent with you guys. I got your package today morning with our pictures from

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month. I appreciate you taking out

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for printing and send the parcel to me. I’ve been wanting to write to you since coming back after visiting you, but I got busy catching up with pending work at my job. There have been some changes in the internal structure of the company and I needed more

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to get a hang of things. I’d love it if you could come and stay with us as it’s my husband’s birthday coming up in July. We can have a great

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together again and my family would be elated to get to know you more about you. I can’t wait to hear from you! With love, Geetanjali

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The Greeting

Depending on the style and aim of the letter, you will need to adapt your greeting.

Always start an informal letter in the ways:

Dear + name
Hi / Hello + name

‘Dear...’ is more appropriate, so stick with this.

For a formal letter there are two options for the greeting:

Use Dear Sir or Madam if you don’t know the name of the person you are writing to.
Use Dear + surname if you do know their name, e.g. Dear Mr Smith or Dear Mrs Jones.

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Overall Band Score

Coherence and Cohesion: 4.0

Logical structure

Single idea per paragraph

Greeting and closing

Accurate linking words

Variety in linking words

Lexical resource: 9.0

Varied vocabulary

Accurate spelling & word formation

Grammatical Range: 9.0

Mix of complex & simple sentences

Clear and correct grammar

Task Achievement: 5.0

Complete response

Suitable writing tone

Appropriate word count

8 paragraphs

161 words

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The Greeting

The mas below show the Happy Valley Shopping Center in 1982 and 2012. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

In many professional sports, there is an increase in the number of athletes using banned substances to improve their performance. What are the causes of the phenomenon and what are some of the possible solutions?

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