Invite a Famous Actor to Open a New Theatre

You work for an entertainment company which plans to open a new theatre soon. You want to invite a famous actor to open the new theatre. Write a letter to this famous actor. In your letter - give some information about the new theatre - invite her/him to open the new theatre - explain why she/he would be a good person to open the theatre Dear ______________ ,

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Dear Sir

I am writing to invite you to launch our new theatre. We are "the Lord's Chosen", an entertainment company located at no. 15 Ayiam Road here in Lagos State. This theatre is a with ultramodern technology for .

It will be our pleasure to have you open this new theatre that was established to meet the entertainment demands of people living in our city. , we will be and ensuring that the necessary logistics are .

We deemed it necessary to invite you, considering your to the entertainment sector of our state as a famous actor. Your roles in famous movies such as Things Fall Apart and The Return of Nnenna have, over the years, served as moral lessons for .

Thank you for your anticipated consideration.

,

Caleb Anulaobi

Overall assessment

Why this response received Band 7.0

The letter responds fully to the task, covering all three bullet points with relevant detail about the theatre, the invitation, and the actor's credentials. Its tone is mostly suitably formal and the vocabulary is reasonably varied, though a few phrasings are slightly awkward and the salutation lacks the personal address the prompt suggests.

IELTS criteria

How each score was decided

Task Achievement

7.0

All bullet points are clearly addressed with developed detail, including the theatre's location and capacity, the invitation, and specific reasons rooted in the actor's career, though the generic 'Dear Sir' salutation slightly weakens the personal register.

Coherence and Cohesion

7.0

Ideas progress logically from introduction to invitation to justification, with effective paragraphing and mostly natural cohesive devices such as 'To facilitate this invitation'.

Lexical Resource

7.0

Vocabulary is sufficiently flexible and precise, featuring items like 'ultramodern technology', 'anticipated consideration', and 'logistics', with only occasional slightly unnatural collocations.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

7.0

A good range of sentence structures is used with generally accurate control, including complex forms like 'considering your years of contribution', with errors that are minor and non-impeding.