General Training Writing Task 1
About GT Writing Part 1: How to create your letter
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About GT Writing Part 1: How to create your letter
The purpose of Part 1 of the GT test is to check that you can communicate in an appropriate and effective way, in writing a letter or email. To do this, you must spend a few minutes in the exam reading the Task and deciding on three points: The imaginary recipient of the letter The correct style to use The content of the letter Let’s explain this: Recipient The imaginary recipient (the person who receives and reads it) may be a friend, a stranger, or a social or professional contact. ‘Imaginary’ means it exists only in imagination; don’t base your answer on a real person that you know. Style Depending on this, the letter may need to be in a personal style, or a formal style. Occasionally, a Task may require a semi-formal style, which we also explain in this book. Content The task will ask you to write a letter or email in which the content ideas are a mix of: Complaining about something Requesting something Explaining and/or apologising about something Suggesting something (There will be a combination of these ideas, not just one.) Depending on what the task instruction is, you then need to decide whether to write your letter or email in a formal, semi-formal or personal style, and create the appropriate content ideas for this imaginary recipient. It may help to think about it like this: Remember, you need to decide on the recipient of the letter, the style and the content. This means you need to choose from the white boxes (the combination of the four possible types of content) and from the blue quarters of the circle (the recipient and the style) and then organise your letter based on this choice. To demonstrate this, here is an example Task: Example Task 1 You are living in a University residence, and you have a problem with the high levels of noise from a new campus restaurant which is open until midnight. Write a letter to the governor of the University. In your letter, Complain about the situation Say why this is a problem And propose ways to reduce the noise Begin your letter ‘Dear --------’ Do not write any addresses Write at least 150 words Before we look at the model letter for this task, ask yourself: Download 0.61 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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