Letter to Mrs Barrett Offering Summer Home Help

Mrs Barrett, an English-speaking woman who lives in your town, has advertised for someone to help her in her home for a few hours a day next summer.

Write a letter to Mrs Barrett. In your letter • suggest how you could help her in her home • say why you would like to do this work • explain when you will and will not be available

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows: Dear Mrs Barrett,

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Letter points: Letter to Mrs Barrett Offering Summer Home Help

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

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

Suggest how you could help her in her home

7 points

Say why you would like to do this work

5 points

Explain when you will and will not be available

5 points

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Score details

Response 01
Estimated band5.5/ 9

Overall assessment

The letter addresses all three bullet points and maintains a generally suitable purpose and tone, which is its strongest aspect. However, frequent errors in spelling, capitalisation, and grammar, together with limited vocabulary and underdeveloped detail, often distract the reader and weaken the overall impression.

TA

Task Achievement

The letter covers all three bullet points, including availability from 9am to 5pm with weekends off, but the reasons for wanting the work and the offers of help are briefly and vaguely developed, and slips such as 'IF u' disrupt the formal register.

5.5
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Ideas are arranged in a plausible bullet-by-bullet order with some linking devices, but progression is mechanical and cohesion breaks down at points such as 'kindly inform me therefore i can this start this job'.

5.5
LR

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is adequate for the message but repetitive and sometimes imprecise, with phrases like 'all types of work' repeated, and misspellings such as 'experties' and 'Barrete'.

5.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A mix of simple and some complex structures is attempted, but frequent errors in verb forms, capitalisation, and phrasing, such as 'searching of new job' and 'looking forward your hearing', reduce accuracy and readability.

5.0

What to work on next

Proofread carefully to eliminate recurring grammar, spelling, and capitalisation errors, and expand each bullet point with more specific, concrete detail.

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