Organising a Ten-Year College Reunion Celebration

It is ten years since you left college. You'd like to organise an event to celebrate this anniversary with all your friends and classmates from college.

Write a letter to one of your college friends. In your letter

• say what kind of celebration event you'd like to organise

• explain why you think it would be good to celebrate in this way

• describe what help you need to organise this event

Dear ....................................,

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Letter points: Organising a Ten-Year College Reunion Celebration

WhyThis is anInformal letter — it asks you to cover every bullet point in a friendly tone.

SoWe group the points under each bullet point of the task.

Say what kind of celebration event you'd like to organise

5 points

Explain why you think it would be good to celebrate in this way

7 points

Describe what help you need to organise this event

6 points

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Score details

Response 01
Estimated band6.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The letter addresses all three required bullet points and maintains a friendly, appropriate tone for a college friend, with the celebration idea and requested help both developed. The main limitation is recurring grammatical inaccuracy, particularly in verb forms and agreement, which occasionally disrupts clarity despite the message remaining broadly understandable.

TA

Task Achievement

The letter covers all three bullet points with a clear celebratory event, reasons for it, and a request for help with dietary arrangements, though the greeting to a group rather than one named friend and some loosely relevant details slightly reduce precision of purpose.

6.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Ideas progress in a broadly logical order with linking phrases such as 'Furthermore' and 'Moving further', but some transitions are mechanical and relationships between sentences are occasionally unclear.

6.0
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is adequate for the informal purpose and shows some attempted range, yet noticeable errors in word choice and spelling such as 'soul purpose' and 'bachleour' reduce precision.

6.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A mix of simple and complex structures is attempted, but frequent errors in verb forms and agreement, such as 'I going to married' and 'it been so long', mean accuracy is limited and meaning is strained at times.

5.5

What to work on next

Revise basic sentence grammar, especially verb tense, agreement, and subject-verb construction, by proofreading each sentence before finalising the letter.

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