Your English-speaking friend who lives in your town has asked for your advice about learning a new sport. Write an email to your friend. In your email recommend a new sport that would be suitable for your friend to learn explain how your friend could learn this sport suggest that you both learn this sport together.

Dear Tom, I am sorry that I am writing back a bit late but I was really busy so I am sorry that you had to wait.
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week you asked me if I could advise
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you on a new
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which you'd like to learn in my country. I'd like to recommend
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you a running for a long distance. I think it will be perfect for you because you're skinny and tall as well. So,
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particular
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could be for you, I think so. As you mentioned before, you like
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kind of
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.
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, what you have to do to learn
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sport
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is, you've to buy
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proper running shoes and clothes which are for runners.
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, you've to find and hire someone who knows how to teach people who want to run long distances. I have good news for you my friend. I have decided that I'll be with you during your training because I wanna learn
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sport
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as well. Can you imagine that we will run a local half marathon together and both of us
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will finish
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particular event
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I can't wait to see you again Cheers Lukas

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coherence and cohesion
Try to organize your email better. Start with a clear introduction, then move to your recommendation, and finally explain how you will learn together. This will help the reader follow your ideas more easily.
task achievement
Make sure to use correct grammar and punctuation. For example, instead of 'a running for a long distance', you can just say 'running long distances'.
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Use more specific examples to support your points. For instance, you can mention a specific place where you can train together or a running group you can join.
positive
You showed a friendly tone in your email, which is great for personal communication!

Fully explain your ideas

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  • Paragraph 1 - Introduction
    • Sentence 1 - Background statement
    • Sentence 2 - Detailed background statement
    • Sentence 3 - Thesis
    • Sentence 4 - Outline sentence
  • Paragraph 2 - First supporting paragraph
    • Sentence 1 - Topic sentence
    • Sentence 2 - Example
    • Sentence 3 - Discussion
    • Sentence 4 - Conclusion
  • Paragraph 3 - Second supporting paragraph
    • Sentence 1 - Topic sentence
    • Sentence 2 - Example
    • Sentence 3 - Discussion
    • Sentence 4 - Conclusion
  • Paragraph 4 - Conclusion
    • Sentence 1 - Summary
    • Sentence 2 - Restatement of thesis
    • Sentence 3 - Prediction or recommendation

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • advice
  • recommend
  • suitable
  • learn
  • coach
  • lessons
  • tutorial videos
  • practice
  • tennis club
  • group
  • schedule
  • regularly
  • participants
  • tournaments
  • friendly matches
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