Escape on New Year's Eve

Hi,

I wondered how other people celebrate New Year's Eve. Do you spend it at home with friends or with your family? Are there any interesting cities that you recommend?

Actually I don't know where to spend New Year's Eve and would love to hear your suggestions and ideas.

IELTS writing part 2: Write your opinion about having a set retirement age IELTS General Writing Task 2

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I just wrote the IELTS task 2 and I would appreciate, if you could read and correct the letter. At the end I would appreciate if you could tell me how many points I would receive in your opinion on a scale from 1 to 9. It is measured in: - TA/TR = Task Achievement/Task Response - CC = Coherence and Cohesion - LR = Lexical Resource - GRA = Grammatical Range and Accuracy

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Some people think that having a set retirement age (e.g. 65 years) for everybody, regardless of occupation, is unfair. They believe that certain workers deserve to retire and receive a pension at an earlier age. Do you agree or disagree? Which types of workers do you think should benefit from early retirement?

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To have a set retirement age might look not fair for some people, but what is the benefit of having a limit in working age? Imagine everybody would have to work 45 years. A lot of people would start to work after they finished school with the age of 15. in that case they were able to retire with the age of 60. Others, who want to study after school start to work with 25. Those people would have to work until they reached their 70th birthday. In that case a lot of the young people would decide not to study, which causes in a leak of well educated workers. Furthermore this country would not be able to make as much money than before and could not pay the pension for all the retired people. Therefore the government has to sink the pension, which will male nobody very pleased. Of course this might sound unfair to people who have to work hard every day, like a construction worker. But compared to a teacher both pay the same amount of money pension taxes until they are 65. So it is important for the system that it is working. In my opinion it is better to have a set retirement age. All people are treated the same way, which is one of the bases of a democratic system. Furthermore are young people encouraged to do the best education which is possible for them. In that case the country stay strong and healthy.

IELTS writing part 1: Write a letter to the railway company IELTS General Writing Task 1

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I just wrote the IELTS task 1 and I would appriciate, if you could read and correct the letter. At the end I would appriciate if you could tell me how many points I would receive in your opinion on a scale from 1 to 9. It is measured in: - TA/TR = Task Achievement/Task Response - CC = Coherence and Cohesion - LR = Lexical Resource - GRA = Grammatical Range and Accuracy

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You have lost an item of value on a train.
Write a letter to the railway company. In your letter: describe the item explain where and when you left it say what action you would like the company to take

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Dear Sir or Madam, I lost my camera in one of your trains. It is a Nikon D5300 and it is very meaningful for me, because all pictures from my last vacation are stored on it. The camera is in a black camera bag, which has the label IVY. After I arrived from my vacation at the Frankfurt airport on the 5th of August, I took the 6pm train from the airport to my home town Ulm. Because there is no direct connection from Frankfurt to Ulm, I had to change in Karlsruhe. When I entered the train in Karlsruhe, I realized that I did not have my camera. Unfortunately it was not possible to return, because the train, which the camera was in, had already left the platform. For that reason I tried to call the hotline and they told me that they cannot do anything, the only thing I can do is writing a letter to the head quarter. I really hope you can find this camera, because it includes a lot of memories for me. Please ask your staff and the cleaning company as well. Your faithfully, Daniel

IELTS writing part 2: Write your opinion about spending a lot of money to make a good movie IELTS General Writing Task 2

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I just wrote the IELTS task 2 and I would appreciate, if you could read and correct the letter. At the end I would appreciate if you could tell me how many points I would receive in your opinion on a scale from 1 to 9. It is measured in: - TA/TR = Task Achievement/Task Response - CC = Coherence and Cohesion - LR = Lexical Resource - GRA = Grammatical Range and Accuracy

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Some film companies spend millions of dollars to make a good movie. Is it necessary to spend a lot of money to make a good movie? What factors contribute to the success of a movie?

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In the following part I would like to show, if it is necessary to have high costs to produce a good movie. At the end I would like to show the reader what the factors are that lead a movie to success. Nowadays a great movie has to be better than the movies before, because people will compare a new film with the older ones. To achieve the goal of being better the producers often need special effects that are produced in the computer. The more special effects there are in the movie, the more expensive the production will be. Another expensive point is that many movies have several locations, so they habe to travel a lot and bring all the equipment to those locations. Imagine a movie is playing in one single room or location, nobody would like to watch such a movie. Because of these reasons I think it is necessary to spend more and more money for the production. Of course not every movie needs to spend more money than all the movies before to be successful. In my opinion the story should be really good, otherwise nobody wants to watch it. Farytails are a good example. Everybody knows them and so the people want to see that movie, because they grow up with these stories. To make people curious about a movie it is important to have an interesting trailer. Especially if the movie is a second part of a great first one, this movie should be at least as good as the first one. Otherwise the people will not watch a third one. So in my opinion it is important to spend a lot of money for the production of a movie, but that does not mean it will have success.

IELTS writing part 1: Write a letter to the manager of a company IELTS General Writing Task 1

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I just wrote the IELTS task 1 and I would appriciate, if you could read and correct the letter. At the end I would appriciate if you could tell me how many points I would receive in your opinion on a scale from 1 to 9. It is measured in: - TA/TR = Task Achievement/Task Response - CC = Coherence and Cohesion - LR = Lexical Resource - GRA = Grammatical Range and Accuracy

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You have seen a job advertised in the newspaper. You want to apply for the job.
Write a letter to the manager of the company. In the letter: provide information about yourself give details of your previous work experience say why the company should consider you for the job

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Dear Sir or Madam, I read your job offer in the newspaper on Wednesday the 20th of September. I am Daniel from Germany and I am very interested in working for your company in Toronto. Last month I succeeded a test to gain the Canadian workers visa. The past five years I was working as a Software Engineer for a local supplier. The main task was to built a software quality system, so that no untested code will ever reach a customer. Therefore it was necessary to learn new scripting languages like groovy or python. But I also was included in the daily work, programming a portal for customers. This portal is running in an OSGi environment and has several interfaces for the front end. After five interesting years I think it is time to go the next stop and your company is the next one. I am a good team-worker and fit perfect to colleagues, who want to work in teams. Furthermore I am a reliable and honest person. I look forward hearing from you, Daniel

IELTS writing part 2: Write your opinion about teaching children at home or in school IELTS General Writing Task 2

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I just wrote the IELTS task 2 and I would appreciate, if you could read and correct the letter. At the end I would appreciate if you could tell me how many points I would receive in your opinion on a scale from 1 to 9. It is measured in: - TA/TR = Task Achievement/Task Response - CC = Coherence and Cohesion - LR = Lexical Resource - GRA = Grammatical Range and Accuracy

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Some people believe that teaching children at home is best for a child’s development while others think that it is important for children to go to school. Discuss the advantages of both methods and give your own opinion.

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I would like to show the advantages of teaching children at home and teaching them at school. If the parents decide to teach their child at home they should definitely be proofed or hire a private teacher. Otherwise these children will not learn the important stuff, which is necessary for a university later. This is a benefit of a school, because they teach them this. It is important for some parents to teach their kids the values that are important for them and those values cannot be taught in school.Those values include being grateful and thankful. Believe in god or other similar things. There are other important things like baking, cooking, cleaning and farming that can be taught at home. But those skills can also be learnt after school. The main benefit of going to school is that children can meet new people, make friends and learn how the society works. All these points cannot be taught at home. It is more an experience that kids have to make. Furthermore they learn to think outside the box, because of all the experiences they made. Another big benefit is that there are several teachers at school and each of them is specialist in other subjects. This makes it easier for pupils to understand the topic. In my opinion it is important that parents teach their kids, especially their values. But I also think that there is enough time on the weekend or after school to do that. Therefore I think kids should learn with other pupils in school, because that will be an experience for life.

IELTS writing part 1: Write a letter to your friend IELTS General Writing Task 1

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I just wrote the IELTS task 1 and I would appriciate, if you could read and correct the letter. At the end I would appriciate if you could tell me how many points I would receive in your opinion on a scale from 1 to 9. It is measured in: - TA/TR = Task Achievement/Task Response - CC = Coherence and Cohesion - LR = Lexical Resource - GRA = Grammatical Range and Accuracy

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A friend has agreed to look after your house and pet while you are on holiday.
Write a letter to you friend. In the letter: give contact details for when you are away give instructions about how to care for your pet describe other household duties

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Dear Hans, thank you for taking care of my house during the time I am in Canada. I will leave the house on Saturday the 16th of September in the afternoon and will return on Sunday the 1st of October. Please open the windows in the morning, so that there is fresh air in all the rooms. Especially the bathroom begins to stink after a while. Furthermore I would like you to give water to my plants. It should be okay, if you do that every other day. If you give too much water, they will die, therefore it is enough to give just a bit of water. You know about my patient for my fishes, so I rely on you to take care of them as well. The box with the food for them is in the drawer under the aquarium. Usually I feed the, twice a day, but if you cannot come that often, then it is okay to give them two spoons of the fish food instead of one. Feel free to write me a message, if something is curious or if you have any questions. Best Daniel

LinkedIn summary Hi everyone, I would like to update my LinkedIn profile and to give a summary on my current activites.

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Since software quality becomes more and more important my company entrusted me to build a continuous delivery environment. Therefore I achieved a certificate in DevOps Foundation to understand the mechanism. Besides my field of activity goes from writing OSGi bundles to customized user interfaces. Currently I am looking for a job in the Toronto area. Please let me know, if this summary is without misspelling and if you would add some more information.

IELTS writing part 1: Write a letter to a manager of a restaurant IELTS General Writing Task 1

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I just wrote the IELTS task 1 and I would appriciate, if you could read and correct the letter. At the end I would appriciate if you could tell me how many points I would receive in your opinion on a scale from 1 to 9. It is measured in: - FC = Fluency and Coherence - LR = Lexical Resource - GRA = Grammatical Range and Accuracy - P = Pronunciation

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You took your family to a nearby restaurant. You were disappointed with the meal and wish to complain to the manager. Write a letter to the manager of the restaurant. In the letter: - explain why you were at the restaurant - describe the problem - write about the action you want the manager to take

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Dear Sir or Madam, I visited your restaurant with my family on the 20th of July. Your place was highly recommended from my co-worker, who told me that your pizza is the best in town. But the intention why I write this letter to you, is because I want to complain about a horrible stay on that day! We entered your restaurant at 6:57 pm, because we had a reservation at 7 pm. Your waiter asked us to wait at the entrance area. We waited 15 minutes till we were seated. Of course she apologized for the long waiting, but when she served the soup it swapped over my jacket, which is a brand new one. I tried to clean my jacket several times, but it is impossible to get the tomato soup out of the jacket. Therefore I want you to pay me the money for this jacket, because it is obviously your waiter’s fault. If we cannot find a solution, there is no other way than going to the police. I look forward hearing from you, Daniel