A friend of mine is going to stay at my place.
Any feedback would be appreciated. Please ignore the possible mistakes in the prompt.
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You are about to go on vacation for a month, A friend from another town will come and stay in your apartment Write a letter to this friend. In your letter
● explain where your friend can get the key to the apartment
● give your friend some instructions about using your apartment
● recommend some places to go
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Dear Tom,
I hope you’re well and looking forward to your stay at my place. I’m just writing to let you know a few things that you’ll need to know.
Once you reach my flat, the first thing you’ll need to do is to pick up the keys from one my neighbours. Just pop round to flat number 2A any time after 5 pm, and ask for Fariba. She’ll be expecting you, and she’ll tell you which key is which.
If it’s hot in the flat, you might want to use the air conditioner. Please first open the water valve in the balcony and then turn on the conditioner. You can also open the windows at nights using one of the keys, but please shut them if you go out.
The only other thing to tell you is that there will be a traditional food festival in the town centre during the second week of your visit. It would definitely be worth checking out. Also, don’t forget to visit the bird park that I told you before. The park is called Birdworld and it is located near a picturesque village just 10 kilometres out of Tehran.
Take care and enjoy your stay.
Adib
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Dear Tom,
Once you reach my flat, the first thing you’ll need to do is [to] pick up the keys from one my neighbours. Just pop round to flat number 2A any time after 5 pm, and ask for Fariba. She’ll be expecting you, and she’ll tell you which key is which.
If it’s hot in the flat, you might want to use the air conditioning. Please To do so, first open the water valve on the balcony and then turn on the A/C. (We often abbreviate air conditioning to A/C or AC. To pronounce it, you simply pronounce the names of the two letters A and C.) You can also open the windows at night[s] using one of the keys, but please remember to shut them if you go out.
The only other thing to tell you is that there is going to be a traditional food festival in the town centre during the second week of your visit. It would definitely be worth checking out. Also, don’t forget to visit the bird park that I told you about before. The park is called Birdworld and it is located near a picturesque village just 10 kilometres outside of Tehran.
Take care and enjoy your stay.
Adib
That was really good! Note: I don't have air conditioning so I am not an expert on what to call it, but to me, "air conditioning" sounds more normal than "air conditioner". However, perhaps in the USA it might be more common to call it air conditioner. I have found this discussion thread where people are talking about which term is most correct:
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ac-a-c-air-conditioning-only.2758266/
If you don't know whether to call it "air conditioner" or "air conditioning", to get around the problem, you can simply call it "air con" (as an abbreviated form). That is what a lot of people call it. "Air con" would be fine to use in informal writing (such as this letter). However, if you were writing a formal essay, it would be best to use the full form "air conditioning" and not use abbreviations.
Grrrr...italki has now logged me out twice for no apparent reason, and I had to re-write this correction. I hope I didn't miss anything I had noticed the first time.
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This would easily meet your goal for WT1 :)
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Excellent English. Sounds more like British than American English, but it's grammatically perfect and completely understandable to any English speaker.
I think your usage of "air conditioner" is fine by American standards except that we would never say "turn on the conditioner" without the word "air." It would be "turn on the air conditioner" or "turn on the AC."
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