Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles hey everyone this is Dori I'm a teacher of English and today I'm going to show you the strategy and the plan you need to follow in order to write a letter in IELTS General Task 1 okay first of all let's take a task as an example okay let's read our task okay this is your task it is obviously a formal letter firstly you have to begin your letter with Dear if you don't know the person's name you're writing to, then you will write like here. After that things are pretty simple you don't need to feel anxious or confused about this task simply you will use one-paragraph for each of these points over here so one paragraph for this one one second paragraph for this one and one last paragraph for your third point so let's read our first point again. So in your first paragraph you will introduce yourself and of course you will state the reason of your writing this letter okay? so, let's see... As you can see you immediately state the reason of your writing this letter Moving on... And now you actually introduce yourself al right as you can see you will have to make some things up but it won't be difficult just use the information you're given and your imagination. The important thing is your grammar also notice that I didn't use contractions I used I am writing instead of I' m I am twenty three years old instead of I' m again and I have studied I have graduated instead of I've studied- I' ve graduated ok also since this is a formal letter please as a whole prefer the passive voice for example which was recently advertised okay now accordingly you will write one paragraph for the second point let's read it so you will talk about your former experience and skills and then your last paragraph is going to be about the third point Lastly you're going to close your letter with this phrase over here please note that this is a standard expression we learn it as is, so don't be confused by the fact that there is an -ing here after -to alright? this is how it goes I'm looking forward to hearing from you Yours faithfully and then your name and surname- your name and last name you should put both please note that when you know the person's name that you're writing to, it is not for example "Dear Sir/Madam" you know the name it is let's just say Dear Mr. Jones, then you will end your letter with yours sincerely instead of yours faithfully and of course your name but if you do not know the name you will write as we've seen Dear Sir/Madam and yours faithfully and your name both your name and your surname okay that's it now you just need to improve your grammar syntax vocabulary and please your spelling if you want to read the rest of the letter you can do it here in this link
A2 UK letter paragraph task writing write surname IELTS GENERAL: How to write a FORMAL LETTER 667 66 Jay Terry Sky posted on 2016/10/19 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary