A foreign friend of yours plans to visit your place and stay with you, but you are not available on that date. Give your friend another alternate date for the visit. In your letter, you should: apologise for it explain what you are doing on that date suggest to him/her an alternate time to come

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Dear Lily, How have been doing recently? I hope all is well with you. I'm writing
this
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letter to you because I have to make an apology to you. I am truly sorry that I will not be able to see you when you come to visit my hometown.
Furthermore
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, you mentioned that you will be in my hometown two months later, around 1st May, but I will be occupied by my busy working on
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date. Currently, I have been working on my new project, and those work tasks take more time than I expected.
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, I have to work overtime, and I think it might
last
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for a
while
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, and hopefully, it will be finished two months later.
Although
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I have been working too much for a
while
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, I am definitely keen to see you when you are in town.
Therefore
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, I have been thinking about a solution that will be perfect for us to meet up. Here is my solution: would you mind coming to my city at half and two months later? During that time, I am sure that I will completely finish my new task, and I definitely have lots of time to hang out with you. I think we can discuss
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problem
further
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, and please let me know your ideas about
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situation. Best wishes, Your sincere friend
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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
  • although
  • even though
  • despite

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