Model answer
A high band model answer to a real General Training Task 1 question, with the task it answers. 20 minutes, at least 150 words.
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The task
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Task 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
You have been studying overseas and staying as a guest with a family for the last 6 months and have recently returned home. Write to the family. In your letter
You do NOT need to write any addresses.
Begin your letter as follows:
Dear…
Write at least 150 words.
The answer
Written at the length the test actually asks for.
Dear Kath, Dave and Jamie,
Well, I'm back home now, and I just wanted to write to you to say thanks once again for a lovely time and your wonderful hospitality to I had such a great experience and it was really kind of you to open your home to me.
Since I left, there have been a lot of things I have missed, but the main thing is Kath's cooking! Such wonderful meals prepared at home were one of my best memories of staying with you, especially now that I am back cooking for myself.
I am still thinking about studying something else at university, but for now I have taken a temporary job. I'm not really enjoying it, but I need to put a little money aside before I can go back to being a student. I have a few months before I need to make a decision and I've already arranged to meet a careers advisor to give me some ideas, so we'll see what they suggest.
Anyway, I hope you are all well and hope we'll keep in touch.
Pieter
182 words
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