Dear Peter,
In my country I
think the most important day is the first day of spring, when we welcome the
new season. First, we have breakfast. We have special bread with
cinnamon, honey, cakes and fruit as well as sweet milk. There are coins in the
bread and the people who get them receive a gift.
After breakfast,
we visit relatives and play games. Some people go round houses, playing music,
and people give them money.
In the evening,
there are fires in the town square to say goodbye to winter. Some people wear
costumes and dance.
Do you celebrate a
special day in your country?
Your friend, Magda
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Content: 5 All the
content is relevant and expanded appropriately. The target reader
would be fully informed.
Communicative Achievement: 5 Letter-writing
conventions are used to communicate the ideas and hold the reader’s attention.
Organisation: 5 A
well organised and coherent letter. A variety of linking words and cohesive devices such as ellipsis, referencing and relative pronouns are used.
Language: 5 A good
range of everyday and less common lexis is used appropriately. Grammatical
structures are mainly limited to the present simple tense, but this is
appropriate to the task, and a range of simple grammatical
forms with good control is used.
