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

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Dear Sir or Madam, I am John Reyyes, one of the members of the local community, writing to you to express my dissatisfaction with your plan to close the sports and leisure
centre
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that will have negative effects on us. My family and I have been using the
centre
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since we moved to
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area.
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, my wife has taken up a yoga course there and
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sport from the sports
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has had a positive impact on our lives.
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, my children have been working out there in the past year.
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, they are away from getting addicted to the drugs.
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centre
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is vitally important for the local community here, and it has brought many benefits with it. youths are having healthy lives
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the variety of courses that are being held there. So,
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centre
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is cooperating with their schools to make it easier to develop their skills and express themselves in
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society. If
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centre
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were closed in order to save money, the local community would face many problems that would be out of the local council's budget to deal with them.
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, in
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centre
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women who are taking care of their children, some courses for upbringing a child and the best ways to behave children are taught. I am looking forward to your reply in order to change your mind about saving
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centre
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instead
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of closing it to save money . Yours faithfully, John Reyyes
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • leisure centre
  • foster social bonds
  • physical health
  • mental well-being
  • constructive activities
  • accessible
  • exercise
  • community spirit
  • public service
  • anti-social behavior
  • cost-saving measures
  • vital role
  • recreation
  • negative impact
  • forecast
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