IELTS General: Writing Task 1 – 14 Top Tips!
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I’ve trained thousands of students for success on their IELTS exam by using these 14 tips! Now it’s your turn. You’ll learn what you MUST do to get the highest score on your IELTS General Writing Task 1. Find out how to easily identify the type and purpose of each letter, and how to start and end your letter perfectly. Learn to save time and effort by using standard expressions. Understand the scoring criteria, so you know exactly what to do and what NOT to do. Visit http://www.GoodLuckIELTS.com for a free guide to the IELTS, and download my free resource at https://www.engvid.com/ielts-general-task-1-letter-writing/ with sample letters, sample topics, key expressions, tips, and much more. Good luck!
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Hi. I’m Rebecca from engVid. If you need to do the IELTS general exam, I’m sure it’s for a very important reason. Perhaps you’re trying to immigrate to another country, or get admission to a college program, or join a professional training program. Whatever your reason, I know you want to get the highest marks possible. Right? Of course. So I’m going to help you to do exactly that in one particular area of the exam, and that’s in your writing section. Now, in the writing section there are two parts, one is a letter and one is an essay. In this lesson we will focus on how you can get the highest marks possible in the letter-writing section. Okay? The 14 tips that I’m going to give you I promise you, if you apply each one of these things, step by step you’re going to get more and more marks. Okay? So stick with me and we will go through them. Let’s get started.
So, the first thing you have to identify when you read the letter-writing task is: What type of letter am I being asked to write? Is it a formal letter, is it a semi-formal letter, or is it an informal letter? Well, how do you know that? Well, you can know it in a few ways and I’m going to explain them, but one of the ways that you can know it is to look at the second point that you need to understand, is to identify the purpose of the letter because some purposes are more formal than other purposes. All right? For example, some formal letters might ask you to request information; or apply for a job; or complain about a product or a service, maybe to an airline, maybe to a store, something like that; or to make a suggestion or a recommendation. All right? To a shopping mall, to a restaurant, something like that. These are more formal situations. These are when we are writing to people or companies that we don’t know. All right? That’s the clue: You don’t have anybody’s name, you just have the name of the company.
All right. Semi-formal letters might include things like this: Complaining to a landlord; or explaining something, a problem or a situation to a neighbour; or asking a professor for permission to miss an exam or to submit your assignment late. Whatever it is. Okay? The details vary. Doesn’t matter. And here, what’s…? What identifies the semi-formal? The semi-formal we know it’s still a kind of a formal situation, but here we usually do know somebody’s name. You would know the name of your landlord, or your professor, or your neighbour, for example. Right? So that means something in terms of the way that you write the letter, the language, the tone, the style. All of this is affected by whether it’s formal, semi-formal, or informal. And I’ll explain more to you as we go along.
Now, examples of informal letters might be where you’re being asked to invite a friend, or thank a friend, or apologize to a friend, or ask for advice from someone that you know. Okay? Here what’s important is that you really know this person well and you’re probably going to call them by first name. So I’m going to explain exactly how all of this translates into the next step, which is how you begin your letter.
So the first step was to identify the type of letter. Second step, the purpose. Now the third step is to open and close the letter correctly. Once you’ve done steps one and two, you will know how to do this step. Because if it’s a formal letter then you start with: “Dear Sir” or “Madam”, and you end with: “Yours faithfully”. Okay? That’s how it is. If it’s a semi-formal letter, you will start with something like: “Dear Mr. Brown” or “Dear Ms. Stone” or “Mrs. Stone”. “Ms.” Is when you don’t know if a woman is married or not, or if she’s just a modern woman. And you end the semi-formal letter with something like: “Yours sincerely”. Okay? What we’re trying to do is to match up the formality of the situation with these terms that we’re using. Okay? The opening and closing salutations they’re called, these are called. All right? Next is the informal one.
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Learn English with Rebecca [engVid] says
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jerli j says
Far better than all my english teachers in school combined…..i am preparing for my ielts GT exam…..thank you for the video.
haleema sadia says
Very well described ma'am
Navpreet Kaur says
Great video Rebecca, I appreciate it, you have a lovely smile 🙂
Rajiv Malhotra says
Very informative and knowledgable video
Thx Mam
Cengizhan Ates says
Lovely thanks❤
Najib Ahmadi says
I just can say that you are the best teacher I have ever seen.
Thnak you for your time and videos
Ayesha Mashwani says
Good teacher ♥️♥️
Jagannath Choudhury says
One of the finest video I have come across, many thanks Rebecca for such a nice and thoroughly explained video. Surely will help me in ielts writing preparation.
Yugender Reddy says
Do we need to write Task-1 in single page or can we write in multiple pages?
Judith Egesa says
Thank you Rebecca. This video was so helpful to me and I have learned something important.
Star Land says
One question….Are we expected to write out the address (ours and the recipients)? Or do we start from Dear? Thanks 🙂
Arjun Sehgal says
Thanks dear Rebeca,
If i need to get my letter checked by you , could please advise how to go about it .
Regards
Math With Harpal Singh says
Thanks for the information provided in the video .so thankful to you…
Carmen Bazurto Palma says
Thanks!! You are great teacher!! You really help me I got the grade and pass the exam!!! 🙂
Ruvini Silva says
Thank you madam
Harpreet Singh says
Mam, can you check my essays plzz
Shruti Anand says
Hey Rebecca
Thank you for sharing these tips. These are very helpful.
Could you please share the link of Task 2 Essay writing?
Amandeep Singh says
Thank you so much for the video and keep sharing your knowledge. I really appreciate it.
Tejinder Samra says
Thanks mam
Sukhdeep Dandiwal says
That was a great lesson thank you so much, hopefully I'll get the desired score.
Aman Tomar says
Thank you mam you doing well your speaking is crystal clear to understandable
mohammad Yousefpour Taleghani says
Great tips and resources
sana butt says
Rebecca , what is a practical approach for mastering English grammar ; given that the language has multiple topics, sub topics , rules and exceptions?
How long does it typically take to master English grammar?
Some say that reading books are sufficient to overcome gaps in Grammar. Please share your thoughts on this!
Shade Williams says
thank you so much
rajesh S says
Amazing video!!Truly loving it.
Ehsan Aliabadi says
Thanks; So helpful. Great job.
Lakhvinder Singh Maan says
Fabulous and impressive knowledge ma'am.
I'd like to know that I'm a govt teacher in India. Can I get PR for Canada after doing GT ?
Please guide me.
Ryan Buenaventura says
she sounds like she's the nicest mom ever
Rehan Azhar says
You are the incredible teacher i ever seen. I want to get your guidelines specially in writing and speaking section please let me know how can i contact with you.
Hilda Ofomi says
Thank you so much ma'am. I learnt a lot.
Dr. Magdah hassan says
Thanks for the great video.
Karn Brar says
Thank You 🙂
Pierre Sorial says
I have a question. I came across an exam and the task is requesting me to write a letter to the library to explain why I can't return the books I borrowed on time. How should the letter be? Formal or semi-formal? How to start the letter with no names given? Thanks.
Horizon English Kebumen TV says
Great!
Rakhi Sharma says
It's really helpful
MrMakoykulet says
Great video!
Chahi Ben says
This is the best video ever ! Thank you so much
Adil Khan says
Thank you very much that was really helpful.
Omotoso Sotonye says
Hello Rebecca, please how can i connect with you to get a one on one review on my work?
RAJWINDER KAUR PANNU says
Its useful video that u make help me a lot to know the basics about task 2 .thanks to you its appreciated