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IELTS Letter, topic: Telling a friend about a new job

Write a letter to an English-speaking friend. In your letter
– explain why you changed jobs
– describe your new job
– tell him/her your other news

Dear John,

I am writing to let you know that I finally got a Software Engineer position in Google. I am so happy to share this news with you. As I told you earlier, my previous job was so me. I kept working on fixing uncountable bugs of an existing system. Thus I started seeking new job opportunities 2 months ago.

Since I walked in Google’s office during my first interview, I immediately knew that this was my ideal work place. My major responsibility is tuning search results on several products. The most exciting thing is that my supervisor is a pioneer in this area around the world. I believe that I can get enormous cutting-edge knowledge from him.

Furthermore, I have bought a new house near my office. I invite you visit next month if you are free at that point of time.

With best wishes,

Michael

This letter covers the task prompt fully. It has the right structure and its level of formality is suitable for a personal letter. The vocabulary and sentence structure is fine. The letter could have achieved a higher band score if it wasn’t for the errors (mouse over the words in blue will show suggested corrections). Seems worthy of Band 8.

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IELTS test in Canada – November 2012 (General Training)

The information below was shared by Z (thanks!) who recently took the IELTS test in Canada. Z didn’t remember the Listening or the Reading sections, but had a good recollection of the questions in the Writing and Speaking sections:

Writing testIELTS test in Canada

Writing task 1 (a letter)

You have borrowed something from your friend for a party, but it was damaged during the party. Write a letter to your friend and say

– What was it?
– How was it damaged?
– What will you do about it?

Writing Task 2 (an essay)

Many people these days travel far for work or spend more hours working. Does this trend have more advantages or disadvantages? What do you think about work-life balance?

Speaking test

Interview

– Do you work or study?
– When did you decide you wanted to work in your profession?
– What do you want to do in the future?
– Did you spend more time with your relatives than your friends as a child?
– How often do you see your relatives now?
– Do you think you’ll see them more or less, in the future?
– Who is the most important relative to you?
– Do you like flowers?

Cue Card

Talk about your childhood friend whom you haven’t seen for a long time and want to meet again. Please say

– Who is that person?
– Where did you meet last time?
– What was he/she doing that time?
– Why do you want to see him/her again?

Discussion

Don’t remember.