Practice Set 13 — Asking a landlord for a repair
Task 1 · Writing an Email — a realistic situation requiring a 150-200 word email: complaint, request, apology, recommendation, cancellation, workplace or neighbourhood issue
Writing Task 1W1-13Intermediate
150-200 wordsAsking a landlord for a repair
The heating in your rented house has been unreliable for three weeks. Some nights it does not come on at all, and the weather is getting colder.
Write to: Your landlord · Formal tone
Write an email to your landlord asking for the heating to be repaired.
Write an email of 150-200 words. Read the situation, then write to the person named. Cover every required point, keep the tone appropriate, and organise your email into short paragraphs. You have 27 minutes for Task 1.
You must include:
- Describe the fault and when it started
- Say what you have already done about it
- Explain the effect on your household
- Ask for a repair by a specific date
27:00
0 words · target 150-2000 characters
- 1Greeting
- 2Opening purpose
- 3Point 1
- 4Explanation
- 5Point 2
- 6Explanation
- 7Point 3
- 8Explanation
- 9Closing