IELTS Writing Task 1 General: Band 9 Structure + Samples

IELTS Writing Task 1 is the cause of more failure than Task 2, even though Task 1 is worth half as much.

In this General Training lesson, I will show you how you can use the question to help you structure your letter in a simple but effective way.

I will write a full formal letter and then show you how I would transform this formal Task 1 letter into an informal Task 1 letter. This will show you the different vocabulary that can be employed to make your Task 1 General Training responses more formal or informal.

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00:00 Introduction
00:32 Understanding the Question and Structure
03:32 Writing Formal Letters
09:57 Transforming Formal to Informal

[Ieltsadvantage]

Are you better at writing formal or informal English?

[abidhassanrayat]

I love this man. The way he describes every topic, everything becomes so smooth and clear.❤

[yuridaniels]

Upon all the teachings i have listened, yours is very simple to understand

[ramandeepsingh]

You are a really good teacher, it was an extremely interesting letter. Thank you.

[niftyoptionslivetradingand]

I am taking my IELTS computer based test on 16th Oct, the day after tomorrow. Whoever feels I am lucky to have gone through this writing Task 1 video, please hit the like button. Your video made me laugh so much that I am now stress free, the way you have explained the mistakes really made my day, I haven't come across such humor added to teaching and analysis anywhere before hahahahahahaha, really loved it keep it up and I think you are the REAL star among all the fake ones out there on YouTube, I wish you all the and take care bye for now....

[rafianatuni]

This video is a great help! I've been struggling writing my letters and I get confused between formal, semi formal and informal language. Thanks for clearing it out Chris!

[julietkuru]

Thanks for bringing to my knowledge of letter writing. I thought is only easy that is required.

[sharontincyprescilla]

Simplest techniques to tackle the mountain of IELTS writing task 1 thank you bosss

[remonananayakkara]

Thank you sir I am going to use this writing task 1 letter because I had written before at home.but I didn’t know to write formal and informal letter .thank you it helps me lot of this video .

[tinphan]

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[goldenbunny]

I am actually preparing for my Multilevel exam and if I take certificate it is appropriate for only Uzbekistan universities. But I want to learn it from Chris and because multilevel exam writing task 1 is similar to general ielts writing task 1 I am learning it not uzbek teachers because there are many unprofessional and fake online teacher's in the telegram. I believe you are the most reliable teacher😊😊😊

[shajadulislam]

thank you sir. you are doing such a great job.

[gurkiransandhu]

I can't believe that we can use this number of contracted words in informal letter. I was told to never write them.
Thankyou

[NawRooz]

Thank you for assisting in getting prepared for IELTS test

[adeesooluwaseyi]

We have two methods of writing in IELTS, which method of writing did u use in writing this task1

[asifa.ameenmuhammedameen]

this vedio is grat and very helpfull i would realy appeciate to you for making these kind of vedios

[springseason]

thanx dear I learnt a lot from your video.

[iikzplw]

Quarter-formal is so funny, I was literally on the floor😂

[nirjhorrahman]

Sir will it deduct my marks if I don't keep one line space after each paragraph? I wont very well but didn't keep any line between each paragraphs 😢

[amairahmed]

hey chris, i have one doubt regarding this video . as you mentioned that the aircraft already left without you, then how can they remove your bags from it ?