Practice Set 20 — Apologising and rescheduling a meeting
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 1W1-20Advanced
150-200 wordsApologising and rescheduling a meeting
You missed an important meeting with a client because you wrote the wrong date in your calendar.
Write to: A client · Formal tone
Write an email to the client apologising and arranging a new meeting.
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:
- Apologise clearly for missing the meeting
- Explain briefly what happened
- Say what you will do to prevent it happening again
- Propose new times for the meeting
27:00
0 words · target 150-2000 characters
- 1Greeting
- 2Opening purpose
- 3Point 1
- 4Explanation
- 5Point 2
- 6Explanation
- 7Point 3
- 8Explanation
- 9Closing