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Writing General Training Task 1 Band 5.0 Example

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170 words General TrainingTask 1Letter
Task 1 Letter

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Ideas to explore

  • Choose one course and explain a concrete benefit.
  • Describe one manageable problem and its effect on learners.
  • Suggest a realistic improvement that directly addresses the problem.

Suggested structure

  1. Use an appropriate greeting and state why you are writing.
  2. Explain what worked well.
  3. Describe the difficulty with a specific example.
  4. Suggest an improvement and close politely.
Useful vocabulary & examples
hands-on practice
learning by doing an activity

The hands-on practice helped me feel more confident.

would appreciate
polite way to express a request

I would appreciate more time to complete each exercise.

would appreciate
a polite expression of a request

I would appreciate a chance to finish the exercise.

Answer analysis

Task Achievement

Covers all three bullet points and the purpose is clear.

Grammar

Agreement errors such as “the exercises was” and “some computer was” weaken accuracy.

Next step

Keep the clear letter structure while correcting agreement and making the request more specific.

Task Prompt

You recently attended an evening course at a community centre. Write a letter to the centre manager. Explain what you enjoyed about the course, describe a problem you experienced, and suggest how the centre could improve future courses. Write at least 150 words.

User Essay Analysis

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Band 5.0

Dear Manager,

I am writing about your evening computer course. I joined this course last month and I want to tell you some things about it. The course was good and I enjoyed it very much.

The teacher was friendly and explain things slowly. I did not know much about computers before but now I can make a table and send documents to people. The exercises was useful and I liked working with other students because we helped each other. I think these skills will help me at work.

But there was a problem with computers. Some computer was not working and two people must use one computer. I waited a long time and I could not finish my exercise. This was not good because the class was only one hour.

Please check all computers before next course. You can also make the class longer so people have more time to practise. I hope you will make these changes because I want to join another course.

Yours faithfully, Alex Morgan

Targeted Improvement Tips

1
All letter points should be developed: enjoyment of practical computing, equipment failures and reduced practice, then a direct improvement. A polite request for equipment checks and spare capacity matches the problem.
2
Use an overview and group details by the actual comparison rather than describe every label in turn.
3
Check the quoted revisions and retain precise figures, dates, locations and tone.

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