Thank-You Letter to Restaurant for Birthday Party

You celebrated your birthday with some friends last week in a restaurant. It was a great success and you and your friends enjoyed the evening very much. Write a letter to the restaurant to thank them. Mention the food, service and the atmosphere. Also suggest any improvements to make things better.

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Letter points: Thank-You Letter to Restaurant for Birthday Party

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.

Mention the food, service and the atmosphere

5 points

Suggest any improvements to make things better

6 points

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Answer · 244 words · 7 paragraphs · 15 comments

Score details

Response 01
Estimated band6.5/ 9

Overall assessment

The response's strongest aspect is its complete coverage of the task, as it thanks the restaurant for the food, service, and atmosphere and offers concrete suggestions like using the terrace for parties. The main limitation is unnatural word choice and recurring grammatical slips that make several sentences sound stilted without blocking meaning.

TA

Task Achievement

The letter achieves its thankful purpose and addresses all prompt elements—food, service, atmosphere, and improvements—with relevant detail and a generally suitable semi-formal tone, though phrasing such as 'valuable services' and the slightly vague improvement section reduces precision.

7.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Ideas are organised in clear paragraphs with a logical progression from thanks to suggestions, but some cohesive devices are misused or unnatural, including 'On the face of it', 'Besides', and 'Suffice to say'.

6.5
LR

Lexical Resource

There is a reasonable range of vocabulary with some ambitious attempts ('luscious', 'in the nick of time'), but several collocations are inaccurate or unnatural, such as 'at the beck and call of us' and 'did such a great arrangement'.

6.5
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A mix of sentence types is attempted with some complex structures, yet recurring errors in tense agreement ('They make us feel proud'), relative clauses ('which really brings appreciation'), and punctuation around 'however' affect accuracy.

6.5

What to work on next

Revise collocations and verb tense agreement, replacing forced idiomatic phrases with natural expressions to lift accuracy and fluency throughout the letter.

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