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.

#month #holiday #friends #house #photos #•thank #•explain #didn’t #•invite

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

last

month. I just wanted to say thanks for the amazing

time

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

last

month. I appreciate you taking out

time

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

time

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

time

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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1Linking words
meeting the goal of 7 or more
1Word repetition
meeting the goal of 3 or fewer
0Grammar mistakes
 

8 paragraphs

161 words

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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

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The Greeting

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