You recently visited a museum in your local town and you had a mixed experience. Write a letter to the museum’s manager. In your letter, – explain when you visited and what you saw – explain the positive parts of your experience and what you liked – explain the negative parts of your experience and give some advice for improvements.

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Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing
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letter regarding a guided tour I did
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weekend at the local museum of history you are in charge of. As I am passionate about our legacy, I would like to share my experience with you. First of all, I would like to enlight the positive aspects of my visit. To start with, I was happily surprised that the pieces under exhibition are originals, and all of them had been donated by the aristocratic families who used to own those materials.
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, I was perplexed to notice that the cutlery, the bed and its linens, were the ones that our national hero San Martín used during the time he lived in France.
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, the ceremony of change of guard of the "
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place, was one of the things that I enjoyed the most.
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, I would like to point out some issues where, in my opinion, there is still room for improvement. One of
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is aspects is the poor cleaning that can be observed in many corners of the rooms where the arts are exposed. Another point that badly got my attention was the few security measures that have been taken over
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valuable objects. Any person with the intention of making any damage to the elements exposed in the museum
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would find no restrictions to commit it. In case you should consider my kind recommendation I would suggest the authorities of the institution
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provide
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security and,
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change the cleaning company currently employed, in order to enhance the appearance of
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beautiful and well-known national museum, which is part of our rich patrimony. Best regards, Lara Simpson
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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:

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  • for example
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