IELTS-letter-informal An English-speaking friend wants to spend a two-week holiday in your region and has written asking for information and advice. Write a letter to your friend. In your letter, off

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IELTS-letter-informal An English-speaking friend wants to spend a two-week holiday in your region and has written asking for information and advice. Write a letter to your friend. In your letter, offer to find somewhere to stay give advice about what to do give information about what clothes to bring Dear Tom, I’m glad hearing from you and knowing that you’re very well. It’s no problem to find somewhere for you to live during your fortnight holiday. Actually, you could feel free to stay with me as my family members will leave the town during that period of time. Otherwise, I can easily find a hotel for you if you need much more private time. Just tell me how much you wanna pay, and if there are any other conditions. I have selected an itinerary for you, and I bet you will surely like it. Firstly, you should visit the ruin of the great wall due to its original feature without restoration. Secondly, I highly recommend you to try the local cuisine. I will show you much more details when you arrive. In terms of the clothes that you should take, it’s a little bit troublesome as you have to take clothes for both summer and fall. It’s because that the gap of temperature is big between the daytime and the night. Besides, here it’s always rainy, so you must take an umbrella. I can’t wait to see you soon. Eric

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IELTS-letter-informal

An English-speaking friend wants to spend a two-week holiday in your region and has written asking for information and advice.
Write a letter to your friend. In your letter,
offer to find somewhere to stay
give advice about what to do
give information about what clothes to bring

Dear Tom,

Glad to hear from you(1) and know that you’re very well.

It’s no problem to find somewhere for you to stay during your fortnight (2)holiday. Actually, you could feel free to stay with me, as my family members will be leaving(2) the town during that period of time. Otherwise, I can easily find a hotel for you if you need much more privacy. Just tell me how much you wanna pay, and if there are any other conditions.

I have made an itinerary for you, and I bet you will surely like it. Firstly, you should visit the ruins of the Great Wall [due to its original feature without restoration](3). Secondly, I highly recommend you to try the local cuisine. I will tell you more about it when you arrive.

In terms of the clothes that you should take, it’s a little bit troublesome as you have to take clothes for both summer and fall. It’s because that the change in temperature is dramatic(4) between the daytime and the night. Besides this(5), here it’s always rainy, so you must take an umbrella.

I can’t wait to see you soon.(6)

Eric

Good job Eric. Most of the words I crossed out are just unneccesary, and make the letter sound more awkward.

(1) There are many standard phrases that we can use here. In a casual letter, it is common to remove the subject pronoun from these structures. "Really pleased to hear from you!" "Good to hear you're well!" etc...

(2) Use continuous tenses to talk about background information. Use simple tenses to talk about the main narrative: "You need to visit the Old Town on Saturday, because the community is putting on a food festival." You probably learned this as short-time/long-time in school. Sometimes that helps, but background/main story usually helps more, because it's more clear (how long is short/long??)

(3) I see what you're trying to say, but it's not very clear. Try rewriting as a new sentence?

(4) We can use 'dramatic' to talk about large changes.

(5) If you just say "Besides" here, it sounds more like "Anyway," e.g. "You don't need to bring a beach towel, because we have plenty. Besides, it will probably rain during your whole visit!"

(6) Again, we're used to certain phrases here, so try to use them precisely. Here you mixed two together, and it looks strange to a native speaker "Can't wait to see you!" "See you soon!"

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