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How to Write Formal Letters (part 1)

2025/3/24
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我是一名雅思老师,我发现很多学生在雅思一般培训写作Task 1的信件写作方面存在一些问题,例如对信件的背景、内容和正式程度把握不够准确,功能性语言运用不足,以及语气和连贯性方面存在缺陷。本教程旨在帮助学生提高雅思信件写作能力,主要讲解了投诉信和情境信两种类型的信件写作技巧。在投诉信写作中,需要注意的是,要礼貌地表达自己的不满,避免使用粗鲁或威胁性的语言,同时要确保信件内容涵盖所有要点,并使用恰当的功能性语言。在情境信写作中,需要根据具体情境选择合适的语气和正式程度,既不能过于正式,也不能过于随意,同时要确保信件内容清晰、连贯,并使用恰当的语法结构和词汇。本教程还提供了一些有用的表达方式和例句,帮助学生更好地理解和掌握雅思信件写作技巧。总而言之,雅思信件写作需要考生具备扎实的语言基础和良好的写作技巧,同时还要注意信件的背景、内容、语气和正式程度等方面,才能写出高质量的信件。

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This chapter introduces the IELTS General Training Task 1 letter writing, focusing on common letter types like requests, complaints, and explanations. It emphasizes the importance of functional language and provides examples.
  • IELTS General Training Task 1 involves writing a letter.
  • Common letter types include requests for information, providing personal or factual information, explaining problems, making requests, complaints, suggestions, or recommendations.
  • Functional language is crucial for performing specific tasks in letter writing.
  • Letters are assessed based on task achievement, coherence and cohesion, lexical resource, and grammatical range and accuracy.

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In this tutorial we cover how to:

 

Understand the questions and context for the letter.

Think about what to write – how to use the prompts that you are given in the question rubric.

Work out how creative to be? Is it ok to make up lots of strange facts and information?

Understand how to start and how to finish your letters – this is so important and at IELTS level you cannot make mistakes on this!

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