Letter to International Students Club Organiser About Food Event

You are a member of an International Students' club. The club is organising an event to celebrate popular food from around the world. Write a letter to the event organiser, Luis. In your letter • offer to make a popular dish from your country • describe what this dish is • explain why it should be included in the event Dear Luis,

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Dear Luis,

I am excited about the upcoming international food event and would like to thank you for organising it. I would love to by preparing a dish from China called Peking Duck.

Peking Duck is one of China’s most iconic and celebrated dishes, Beijing. It features crispy, golden-brown served with thin pancakes, spring onions, , and a rich hoisin sauce. The combination of textures and makes it a truly unforgettable dish. Traditionally, it is prepared using a that enhances its flavour and ensures a perfect crunch.

I believe Peking Duck would be an excellent addition to the event because it represents China’s rich culinary heritage and is widely loved around the world. It would provide attendees with an authentic taste of Chinese cuisine and add diversity to the . Please let me know if I can go ahead with this contribution.

Looking forward to your response.

Chen Hao

Overall assessment

Why this response received Band 8.0

The letter fully achieves its purpose, addressing all three bullet points with a warm, appropriately formal tone and well-developed detail about the dish. The language is precise and flexible, with only rare, minor lapses; the main limitation is that development is solid but not exceptional in depth or originality.

IELTS criteria

How each score was decided

Task Achievement

8.0

The letter directly covers all three bullet points with a clear offer, a vivid description of Peking Duck, and a convincing justification for inclusion, in a consistently suitable semi-formal register.

Coherence and Cohesion

8.0

Ideas are logically sequenced across paragraphs with effective cohesive devices such as 'as you might already know' and 'I believe', producing smooth and natural progression.

Lexical Resource

8.0

Vocabulary is precise and idiomatic, with strong culinary collocations like 'iconic and celebrated dishes', 'culinary heritage', and 'sweet-savoury sauce', and only rare minor imprecision.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

8.0

A wide range of structures, including complex relative and conditional forms, is used with consistent accuracy and flexibility throughout the letter.