You have received a letter from your bank, asking you to acknowledge receipt of a new bank card. However, the card was missing from the envelope. Write a letter to the bank's head office. In your letter: explain why you are writing express concern about the missing card ask them what they intend to do You do NOT need to write your own address.

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Dear Mr. Tomson,
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is Faisal from Chittagong and I have been one of the valuable customers at your renowned bank since 2023. I am writing
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letter to express my concern about what was found missing from the envelope. As I said, I have been taking banking services from your bank for a long day as I made frequent transactions through my savings account. Recently, I applied to the bank to get a new
debit
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card
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because my existing
debit
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card
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is going to expire soon.
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, one customer service officer called me regarding
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matter
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and confirmed that within the next 15 days,
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new
card
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will be issued and delivered to my current address. Today the delivery man asked to acknowledge the receipt of
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card
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but when I opened the envelope, the
card
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was found missing.
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, I need
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new
debit
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card
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badly as some business has to be done with
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card
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. Considering
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matter
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discussed above, I am requesting that you investigate
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matter
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as well as
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issue a new
debit
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card
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as early as possible. I firmly believe that as a prominent banking institution, I will get quick feedback regarding the
card
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issue. I am looking forward to hearing from you soon regarding
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matter
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. Yours faithfully, Faisal
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task achievement
Ensure that the entire prompt is thoroughly addressed, including asking explicitly what steps the bank intends to take regarding the missing card.
coherence cohesion
Consistency in paragraphing: ensure that each paragraph presents a clear single idea. The second paragraph could be split into two for greater clarity.

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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