Name: IELTS exam letter writing (part 1 of 3)
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Today's lesson is about how to write a letter.

Now, before we begin this task, let's do Ah, brief review about what a sentences.

A sentence is basically just a group of words together, and it starts with a capital letter, and it ends with a full stop.

Now, a paragraph is a group of sentences and a paragraph begins with an indent, which is a space.

Now if I read a short paragraph, Okay, So in this brief paragraph, I have stuck to one subject, which is myself.

So if I ever got was a group of sentences about one topic Okay, so now we, uh, remember what a sentences and what a paragraph is.

We can begin our task, which is to write a letter.

Now, today's letter is concerning this topic is that a bit bigger?

So the topic is you have borrowed 10 library books and due to an urgent matter, you will not be able to return them on time, writes a letter politely explaining your position and requesting that you're fine.

Okay, So now letters fall into some different categories.

When category is a request category is a friendly letter and one category is a business letter there.

Now, if we look at this letter and what we've been asked to do here, this letter is a basic request.

So, firstly, if we go over some of the vocabulary now, it says you have borrowed 10 library books, and due to an urgent matter, you will not be able to return them on time.

Now, an urgent matter is something very important, perhaps perhaps an emergency or something that you absolutely have to do.

We were asked to write a letter, politely explaining, and we just go over The word politely, politely is basically being friendly.

We want to be nice in this letter, and this is difference from if we were writing a complaint where we might want to be a little bit more aggressive.

But in this letter we're gonna try to be as polite as possible.

Okay, Now, the rest of it says, explaining your position and requesting that you're fine, be withheld.

Now, a fine is if you do something that's not allowed in some cases, like if you drive too fast, uh, then you have to pay some money as a punishment, and the same thing is true.

So if you if you keep your book for too long past when it's due, then you will have to pay a fine, which is basically a punishment for keeping your book too long.

Okay, so we're asking basically, in this letter now we're writing to the library and we're saying, Sorry, I cannot return my library books because I have a very important problem.

After we tell them this, we want to ask them.

Is it at all possible that you could not, uh, penalize me or find me for not returning the books on time?

So now I'll put this back up in a second.

So now when it comes to writing a letter, the first thing we need to do is address the person that we're writing to now in this case, were writing to a library person that we don't know And it could be a woman.

And we say or with a slash we wouldn't actually write Dear sir or madam.

Now that's the way that we begin a letter.

And if we don't know who it is, we rate sir or madam.

And now in a letter, we basically have three sections that we want to complete.

So the first section, the first section states the purpose off the letter.

So basically, this tells us, tells the person reading it, Why are we writing?

So we're writing this because these air, uh, this is what happens and and we won't explain our situation.

I should also point out that this first section we want this to be roughly 1 to 2 sentences, 1 to 2 sentences.

Now, if you're writing a letter for a Niles exam, you want to keep this letter to about 100 and 50 words in total.

So you want this part to be about one sentence long?

This next part, perhaps 3 to 4 sentences will say 3 to 4 sentences, whips 3 to 4 sentences.

And the last section will also be 3 to 4 sentences.

Okay, now, the third, the third paragraph, it talks about what we want to happen or what we expect.

Once again, this is 3 to 4 sentences long, roughly 3 to 4.

Okay, so if we go over these sections again together now, this first section here.

Basically, I am writing you this letter because this is what's happened.

Now, in number two, we're gonna give the details.

So perhaps we would say, Okay, we have 10 library books that air over do or going to be overdue very soon, and we're not gonna be able to get these these books to you on time.

I'm not gonna be able to get these books to you in time.

And number three is what we want to happen.

So basically, um, we want to request that the fine be withheld.

And, of course, like the question outlined for us.

We want to do this in the in the most polite way that we can.

Okay, We want to be friendly in this letter.

I'm gonna take this away, and we're gonna start the first paragraph together.

Maybe what I'll do is I'll sticker question back up here.

So just to review once more, we're writing.

So you have borrowed 10 library books, and due to an urgent matter, you will not be able to return them on time.

Write a letter politely explaining your position and requesting that you're fine.

So in our first paragraph, now we want to in dense.

So I'm gonna leave a space here, and I'm going to write the the purpose of the letter.

Two, um, my library books, which are, uh, do in the near future.

Okay, so basically, we've outlines then somewhat that the subject of what we're gonna talk about in this letter I'm writing in regards to library books, which are due in the near future.

Okay, Now, if you'll remember from before the second section wants to give the details.

 This is the section where where we can state what the exact situation is. 