LETTERS (INFORMAL LETTERS/ ADVICE LETTERS/ COMPLAINT LETTERS)
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You have just received a present from your English- speaking friend. Write a letter to him/her.
In this letter you should:
- Thank him/her for a present - Explain why like it
- Say what you are going to send him/her in return.
How are things with you? Is it good? Thanks for your present which you sent me last week, I really like it.
Your present is interesting. It is an electronic dictionary which I have never had before. It is good for my job. When I have problems in meanings of words, pronunciation, structures and so on, I often use it. It has got many functions. Moreover, it is very good for studying French because it also has French vocabularies. Further more, it helps me to relax and to be comfortable because of having games and music. Finally, I think that it is very expensive because of its functions.
By the way, I am going to send you a present which I bought in Da Lat some days ago. Can you guess what it is? Perhaps, it is difficult for you to say exactly. It is a small wood house which was made by ethnic people living in Lang Biang. Can you tell me how you feel when you receive it? I hope you will like it.
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Love,
Ps: You give me some regards to your family and our friends
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Dear John,
How are you, my dear English- speaking friend? I hope you are fine. Don’t worry about me, I’m very fine. I’m now a very energetic young man as you know? How are those members in your family? Pass them my greetings.
I have just received your beautiful present from you. Thanks a million for it. In fact, it is a very lovely watch that I hope to buy these days. I am sure that you understand me very clearly through your present. As you know, my watch was out of order last month, so I am looking for a new and high- quality one. But I haven’t found it yet. So, that is the reason why I feel very happy and memorable when receiving your present. One last thing I want to tell you is that I am planning to give you a great present. I’m sure that it’ll make you satisfied.
Lots of love,
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Write an email to your friend who lives in another town.
In this email you should:
- Invite him/her to visit the shopping center in your place - Explain why you want to visit this shopping center - Suggest where and when to meet.
Dear Lan,
I haven’t heard from you for a long time since we met in our friend’s party. How are things with you? Your family is fine, isn’t it?
Let me tell you about my news, I have just finished the final term of my school. Now I have more free time. And a new shopping center has just been opened in my hometown. Would you like to visit it with me? We can have many benefits from shopping there.
Firstly, this center has just opened for two days; therefore, there are loads of nice and new products.
We have a great selection of products on display. Secondly, the prices are quite fixed and cheap.
Especially, there have been a lot of special offer programs for the customers who buy at least two items. Thirdly, we will receive a lovely present if we spend two thousand VND buying anything.
Lastly, I recommend this shopping center because it is not only clean but also comfortable. In addition, it has a spacious car-park.
By the way, please tell me where and when we will meet next week but I think it is good for you to meet at my house next Monday. Please, let me know if you have any changes. I hope to hear from you soon.
Love,
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Dear David,
For a long time we haven’t seen again. I really miss you. How are things with you?
Recently, they have just opened a new shopping center called Big C. It is said to be the most comfortable and biggest supermarket in my hometown. Would you like to come and discover this new place together? In this shopping center, we can enjoy some high qualified services such as free buses, free delivery services and so on. In addition, there are many types of collections of clothes, furniture, and foods; especially it has a large area where there are many kinds of machines, cars and motorbikes. I hope you will love this place. If you have free time this weekend, call me and we will meet at the café in the corner of the shopping center.
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Love,
Nguyen Van An
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An English – speaking friend wants to spend a one – week holiday in your region and has written to asking for information and advice. Write a letter to your friend. In the letter, you should say:
- Where your friend can stay
- What places your friend you can visit and what he / she can do - And offer to guide him / her around your place
Dear Mary,
It was good to receive your letter yesterday. Now I am fine and pleased to hear that you want to spend a one – week holiday in my country.
Well, Vietnam has a lot beautiful places so you shouldn’t worry about the destination. Although it is a small place and not famous enough like the others, I think Soc Trang province is a fascinating tourist attraction for you to experience. Further more, you can stay at my house and you will be lucky to have a friendly tour guide like me. I will take you to visit loads of ancient pagodas of Vietnamese, Chinese and Cambodian here. They are quite different but they have some amazing similarities. They are also interesting. Besides, foods and festivals in Soc Trang are extremely special. If you come here in the early November, you will have the chance to enjoy the most important festival called Ook om bok which lasts for three days and has lots of activities such as Ngo boat racing, walking overnight of the Cambodian people, I strongly believe that Ook Om bok event is such a special festival that you cannot forget.
I think you will love my recommendation and enjoy the fun there. I am looking forward to seeing you soon.
Love,
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You will move to a new city for work. Write a letter to your friend, who lives there. In the letter you should:
- ask him ‘ her for help with finding accommodation - tell where you would like to do
- tell him you will arrive
- tell him / her the type of accommodation you are looking for Dear Nam,
How are you, Nam? I’m very fine. How is your work now?
I’m writing to you for some help about the accommodation because I am going to move to HCM city to work. Can you help me? I will have many difficulties when I work far from my house. Especially, it is not easy to find a good accommodation near my company without your help. Now, I say something about accommodation so that you can give me a hand. First, it’s good if it is in 1st District. Second, it should be a single room because I like living alone and it may be cheaper than another room. In my opinion, it is more comfortable when it is near a park because I can go for a walk and do the morning exercises. Finally, I want to live near your house, we can go out more frequently in our free time. I will come there next Monday on 13th August at 10.00 am and I will work there only one month. I hope that I don’t bring you some problems.
Please tell me if you have any information about my accommodation. I’m looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Best wishes,
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Last weekend, you had a great time visiting your grandparents in the countryside. Write a letter to your English-speaking friend, telling him/her about your visit. In this letter, you should say:
- How you went there.
- What you did in this countryside.
- How you felt about the visit.
Dear John,
How are things with you? I am fine. I have just returned from the countryside. I am really glad to tell you about visiting my grandparents there.
Early morning of last weekend, my friends and I made a trip to visit my grandparents in the countryside. When we began the journey, the weather was fine. We rode our bikes to the countryside. First, we came to my grandparents’ house early and had breakfast there. After that, we visited a fruit garden and enjoyed many kinds of fruits. Second, we went swimming in the river for an hour. It was really interesting to swim in the river. At noon, we gathered under a shady tall tree to talk and sing and we had special meal with many traditional foods which are very delicious. The sights in the countryside were beautiful, so we took a lot of photos with different sights. In the afternoon, we played volleyball with our friends and went fishing and flied a kite and so on. We felt very happy and relaxed when having a trip to the countryside. I strongly believe that it is the most interesting trip that I have ever had. How about you? Have you ever had a great time in the countryside? Please tell me about it.
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Love,
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You have just got a new job in a school as an English teacher and it was your first class this morning. Write a letter to your English- speaking friend telling him/her about your first class.
In this letter you should say:
- How your first class was - How your students were - How you felt.
Dear Mary,
How are things with you? Is it good? I’m very fine. By the way, you know that I have just got a new job in a school near my house as an English teacher and I started my first class this morning. It was really interesting. I had some amazing things on the first day.
First, although I prepared very well with some exciting activities in order to attract students, I was excited because it was the first time to work here. Moreover, most of my students spoke English well and worked very hard during the lesson, they took part in and concentrated on their lessons and they had many interesting questions which sometimes made me embarrassing but I overcame. In addition, I realized that they were pleased with my lesson. Because of these reasons, I felt very happy and strongly believe that I could do the work better. I wasn’t worried about the lessons as much as I thought before. Now I think that I am confident in teaching and I can do my new job well.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Love,
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Dear Tom,
How are things with you? I hope your health will be better and better. Don’t worry about me, I’m still getting fit. And I really glad to tell you that I have just got a new job in a school as an English teacher and it was my first class this morning.
Before receiving the class, I found out some interesting information from the head-master of the school. Firstly, my class has many good students who can use English fluently. In fact, I and my class spoke English to make friends during the period. Both of us are happy. Secondly, all of my students always obey and love to study English. They asked me the ways to learn English well and how many rules they had to follow. Finally, I really love my students because of some reasons. They began with good behavior. In the first time they stood and gave me friendly greeting. Furthermore, they also cared about their study. They were very patient to practice speaking difficult sentences and do tough exercises in groups.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Love,
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Your friend has got a teenage son who has recently started smoking. This son said he might be teased if he didn’t join his friends smoking. Your friend wrote to you, asking for advice. Write a letter to her /him. In this letter you should:
- express your regret of the situation
- give advice on how to deal with the situation.
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Dear Mai,
I’m really sorry to know that your son has recently started smoking. I think he will not be addictive seriously. He might have been teased if he hadn’t joined his friends’ smoking. You shouldn’t worry much about this problem. It will be solved if your son understands clearly that smoking is bad for him.
In my opinion, you should advise him to give up smoking because it’s very harmful for his health and the others. You should tell him some problems that smoking causes such as lung cancer, heart disease, and tongue cancer and so on. In addition, you help him to realize that he is too young to start smoking. His age is allowed to smoke. You should advise him not to make friends with the people who teased him when he didn’t join his friends’ smoking. Moreover, you should talk to his teacher about his students’ smoking in order to find the solutions to give up it. Furthermore, you should follow his schedule at school to know his activities and control his free time. Next, you should encourage your son to take part in many useful activities such as reading, swimming, playing chess or playing sports and so on because these activities can help him to stop smoking gradually.
Finally, I suggest that you had better not give him a lot of money when he goes to school because he can’t afford to buy anything without money. To sum up, you should be calm and impatient to help him to get rid of smoking.
I hope my solutions can help you and your son will be better soon.
Love,
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Your friend’s son has been addicted to the Internet games for quite a long time, and can’t concentrate on his study. Your friend has written a letter telling you this. Write a letter to your friend. In this letter, you should
- express your regret about your friend’s situation - give some advice on how to deal with the situation - suggest to visit your friend some day
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Dear Hai,
I am really sorry to hear about your son’s problem. I also understand how much you worry about him.
I would like to share some myself experiences with you so that you can help your son stop playing games and to concentrate on his study. Firstly, you should spend more time taking care of him and playing with him in his free time in order to limit his time on computer. Secondly, both you and your wife need to pay attention to his study and should help him solve some studying problems regularly in order to encourage him to study better. Thirdly, you should encourage your son to take part in many useful activities such as reading, swimming, playing chess or playing sports and so on because these activities can help him to reduce it gradually. Fourthly, you can guide him to play games which help his study on computer such as audition studying English or doing math online.
Finally, you help him to realize that playing games makes him passive and bad for his health.
I am going to visit your family at weekend, just in the afternoon and I will talk to your son too. I hope my solutions can help you and your son will be better soon.
All my love,
Ps. I’m coming there with my wife and my children
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Dear Amanda,
I’m very sorry to hear about your son who has been addicted to the Internet games. There are a lot of teenagers who are addicted to these games nowadays. In addition, their studying will be lower from our expectations.
I think that it is not very difficult to advise him to be back with his studying. You shouldn’t worry a lot because it cannot be good for your health. A good way for you is that your son and you should have time to talk together. Please give him some advice, your expectation and your point of views.
Actually, all of things you do are good for him. And, you don’t think Internet games are good for teenagers. Beside that, there are many good clubs of youths for people who want to give up the Internet games. I think it is also good for your son if he takes part in those clubs. Moreover, controlling his time and money is also the best way. You should connect to his teacher to know about his school timetable and give him enough money for his school activities. Try to pay much attention to your son and listen to his point of views about the life and school day.
What do you think if I visit your house in some days? I miss you much and want to talk to you more.
I would like to hear the best news from your son soon.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours faithfully,
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You just returned from a trip organized by your school. Write a letter to your English- speaking friend. In this letter, you should say:
- when you went on the trip
- where you when and what you did on the trip - how the trip was
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Dear Mary,
How is it going? I hope you’ll say “Very good”. And I know that you will have a trip next week. But I have just returned from a trip organized by our school. Exactly, it’s extremely wonderful.
Last weekend, we had an interesting and meaningful two-day trip to Dai Nam Theme Park at the weekend. Our trip started in the early morning when we all felt very excited about the best things coming to us. After some hours, we arrived there and had our fascinating time.
There are many exciting games and activities in that park. So, each of us was ready to attend in many games and activities. Although those took us a lot of money, we didn’t find them expensive just because of their great benefits. Besides, I also bought some gifts for my family and friends.
Especially, I had a lovely small comb for my wife and a car toy for my son when I was not at home.
Personally, I had a greatly nice trip by our school. It is the first trip that I’ve ever had since I graduated from university. I will remember it forever because it makes me remember the students’
life and more comfortable after hard working day. And perhaps, it would be happier if you could take part in it with me. I hope you will have a good trip next week.
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours sincerely,
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You just got internet line install at your home. The Internet Company promised you many things. But after only a month of using service, you began to see problems. Write a letter of complaint to the company. In this letter you should say:
- what you are promised
- what the current problems are - what you want the company to do
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Dear Sir,
I have just got Internet line install at my home. Thanks for your company to support this service. But I have already had some problems in the last time.
I am really unhappy with some things. Firstly, your advertisement says that the Internet has high quality. It is always fast and good for us to use for our work but in fact, it is very slow and unstable.
Especially, I was working very importantly, it failed or operated unstably. And I couldn’t watch film