Hi there, welcome to the next lesson in this video, we will be covering the letter that is writing
to ask one of your general test in IELTS.
In general, as I've already explained, the letter is to be written in minimum one hundred and fifty
words and ideally we should be a little above that number.
I would recommend one hundred seventy five to one hundred ninety.
Try not to make it exceed two hundred words.
Keep it in the range of one hundred sixty five to one hundred and ninety words.
That should be good enough.
And yes, we do get 20 minutes to do this activity.
Let's look at the latter question and how to present an answer which will ensure a good score for us.
You are applying for a job and need a letter of reference from your supervisor.
Write a letter to your former supervisor in your letter, give details of the job, explain why it is
important to you, suggest what information your supervisor could put in reference.
So in the letter question or the writing task, one, it becomes easier for us because the entire context
is clearly mentioned.
We just have to ensure we follow the question and write at our response, which is grammatically correct,
uses, correct vocabulary, different kind of sentence structures if we can present and if we remain
within the word count.
So now let's look at a standard answer here.
It says, Dear Dave, why am I writing the name to my supervisor or my previous supervisor is generally
people one level above us.
We would talk to each other by calling me, by just taking me.
So it's absolutely OK.
You can even write the words, sir.
That's perfectly acceptable.
Dear, the greetings of today, hope you are doing wonderful, as always.
Now, look at it, this letter is supposed to be a formal letter, but I'm using hope you are doing
wonderful as always.
Why?
Because it is a person who was one level above me.
I worked with him for, say, one year to five years.
And we have kind of a bond which is developed.
So I can take the liberty to greet the person.
I recently had an interview with an organization that is primarily working on software development,
and they have provisionally selected me for the position.
It is a project management role where very I will be independently handling a project deep.
The role means a lot to me as it will be my stepping stone to a leadership role in a large corporation.
It will be for the first time where I will be leading a complex project on artificial intelligence.
The organization has asked me to submit a reference letter from my previous supervisor.
Can you please write a reference letter for me, mentioning my experience, working with you in artificial
intelligence and my team management skills?
I appreciate your assistance in advance.
Looking forward to your continued guidance in my career regards, Eric.
Now, what we do here is we can see that in the paragraph one, I'm clearly defining what is the requirement
or why am I writing this letter is because this company has offered me a job provisionally selected.
Second, why is this job important to me?
Third paragraph, I'm making a request to my previous supervisor and I'm ending this paragraph thanking
him for his assistance that he has already provided to me in the past and that he will continue to do
so in future.
OK, and all parts of the question have been addressed.
So we will keep its plain simple straight away.
Answer the question that has been given to you, maintain grammatically correct sentences, use good
vocabulary as much as you can, and try not to be too predictable.
So thank you so much for your participation.
Will connect again with another letter question in the next video.