Your local council is considering closing a sports and leisure center that it runs, in order to save money. Write a letter to the local council. In your letter Give details of how you and your friends or family use the center. Explain why the sports and leisure center is important for the local community Describe the possible effects on the local people if the center closes.

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Dear Sir, My name is Kulwinder Kaur and I am residing near Scarborough Town
Centre
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. I am writing
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letter to express my deep concern for shutting down our local sports and leisure
centre
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called "Be Healthier". Since 2016, when my family and I moved to
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area, using
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facility to keep ourselves healthy because it has a variety of gym equipment
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there is a facility of swimming pool. Not only
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but it
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has a basketball court where all my friends do their practice for their basketball match. Despite the fact that people are occupied with numerous things dealing with their workloads and family issues the
centre
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indeed acts as a medium of relief and happiness where they can spend their quality time with themselves and lead a healthier lifestyle.
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, shutting down
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centre
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will affect the local community in numerous ways
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as a lack of physical activities and the development of health conditions.
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to
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, it is
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very inconvenient and expensive to use paid community centres. Looking forward to hearing a positive reply to
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concern. Yours sincerely, Kulwinder Kaur
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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
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  • despite

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