What is the Goal of the General Training Writing Task 1?
Writing Task 1 is designed to measure how well you can communicate in English in different situations and how well you can adapt your communication style to a particular situation at hand.
Understanding how to get a high score in IELTS General Writing Task 1 can be difficult. The best place to start is learning more about the format of the IELTS Writing Task 1 and what is expected from you as the test taker.
Format of the IELTS General Training Writing Task 1
In IELTS General Writing Task 1, you must always write a letter, and the question will look like this.
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
You rent a four-bedroom house, which you share with two other students. However, there are several problems with the house that need fixing. You also find it expensive and would like another student to share the spare bedroom.
Write a letter to the estate agency. In the letter
- explain your situation
- describe the problems with the house
- say what you would like to happen.
Write at least 150 words.
You do NOT need to write any addresses.
Begin your letter as follows: Dear Sir or Madam,
Key |
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This part explains the situation. |
The bullets tell you what to write about |
This tells you how to begin |
As you can see in the image above, the instructions are outside the box.
Inside the box, a situation is described, and three prompts at the bottom tell you what you need to write about.
Sometimes, you need to write an informal letter to a friend and other times; you need to write a formal letter like in the question above. More information will be provided in Lesson 1.3.3 Tone