IELTS letter "request to change a college course" You are not happy with the course you are doing at college and would like to change to a different course. Write a letter to the college director requesting to change your course. You should include details about: *what course are you doing now *why you are not satisfied with that course *what course would you like to change to _____________________________ Dear Mr. Smith, I am writing to you in order to ask for a substitution of the field of my studies. I signed up for a course in networking technologies in September this year. Before i started my studies i had worked as a wireless technician in Verizon Corporation for 3 years. For now i decided to change route and get a degree in cable networking. So far it has been a good experience and i liked the tutors and my classmates. But the content of some particular subjects seemed to me not as useful as i expected. For example the majority of the course disciplines consists of wireless technologies in which i am not interested at all. I would like to devote myself to optical networking technologies. I made a thorough investigation on the college website and figured out that we have a course provided us by Cisco company. I scanned through the list of subjects and i can say they perfectly suitable for me. I would highly appreciate if it could be possible to change my current course to "Optical networks" from the beginning of December 1st. I look forward to hearing from you Yours sincerely, Max Zalupenko.

IELTS letter #1 Birthday party invitation Task: You are studying English at a private language school attended by many international students. You are planning a surprise birthday party for a friend which has been particularly sad and homesick. Write to another classmate and invite him/her to the party. -explain the reason for the party -date and time -suggest what the classmate should bring Letter: Dear Dasha, I am sorry I have not written for a very long time. I am writing to invite you to Peters birthday party. I believe you still remember Peter, the guy with who we spent last thanksgiving. He turned 25 last Thursday and he told me that he has never celebrated his birthdays. Since it is his mini anniversary i decided to prepare something special for him. It is going to be a modest party outside with a barbeque and games in the fresh air. The plan is following: 1. All classmates and I meet in school at 6pm next Saturday 23 oct. The address is Lake street 1, 221 2. We prepare everything for the surprise: balloons, games, food, drinks etc. 3. Peter is going to be at 7pm after his gym. 4. Around 7 o'clock we start celebrating. Gifts are not compulsory but if you have a willing and money Peter will be over the moon. Please bring games for huge companies in case you have any. I hope it will be a fascinating and unforgettable day. Can't wait to see you there. Best wishes, Max

IELTS Essay #3 Rich & poor countries Rich countries should help the poor countries to develop their infrastructura and should forgive their debts. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? Nowadays we can see a huge difference between countries with well-developed economics and countries wich have some problems with it. The topic of financial aid to the poor countries is very controversial. This help has its advantages and disadvantages for both parties. First of all, investments of developed countries into economics of emerging countries benefits most to the last mentioned above, as it is an easy money for them. Secondly poor countries can increase the level of life, if the government can accurately manages this money. In third place poor countries with high rate of unemployment can open new organizations thus open new work places. Helping poor countries is also beneficial for investing part. For example international companies can expand their business by opening new branches in emerging countries. Moreover they can can savy money on employees salaries , as workforce in poor countries is usually much cheaper. On the other hand there are some disadvantages. The poor countries can get used to getting easy money from abroad and it can negatively affect theit self-development. The poor countries getting gratuitous financial aid have less motivation to develop, as they do not have any responsibilities to give the money back. For rich countries it is also a risk to invest money into economics of poor countries. As a rule most of developing countries have a high level of coruption and it is very difficult to predict how this money will be spent. Personally I think that rich countries should help emerging ones, but not for free. I believe that every investment imply a result. It does not matter how rich the country is, the government should think about their own development first.

IELTS Essay #2 Financial Education - compulsory or not ? It's my second essay :) Task : Financial education should be a compulsory part of the school program. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? Nowadays our sociaty is heavily dependant on money and the question of teaching “Finance” in schools is extremely contraversial. Some people do agree with bringing the new subject, some people not. The disagreed part of our population thinks that modern children already have plenty of subjects to learn. The idea is not worth overwhelming kid’s brains with a such complicated theory. In addition to this pupils should not worry about money as it can cause inequality between the poor and the rich. Furthermore, there is a risk that children will not have a real childhood, making relations between them commercial and being obsessed about money all the time. On the other hand a lot of parents believe that financial education can provoke our kids to think ahead about their future. It forms special way of thinking, develops business acumen. Moreover, the new subject can help to understand how to manage finances efficiently and know the cost of money. As for me, I truly believe that financial education is quite important for young generation, but it should not be very deep or sophisticated. I support the point of view that every school must provide some basic financial education. I had some problems with finding alternative words for : -to think -people -subject -important -but -that -financial education -for superlatives as well (extremely, very, vitally) Also the length is 197 works (if i counted correct). I ran out of my imagination to write more .. Also i repeated a lot of words such as : that. people, think, believe, financial education. How to cope with this?

IELTS Essay #1 Task: Computers can translate all kinds of languages now. Will children need to learn foreign languages in the future? Or can they rely on computers to do all their translations for them? Discuss and state your own opinion. Essay: Nowadays with an enormous pace of technology growth humanity has all kinds of machienes that make our life easier. It is also applicable to translational services. There are plenty of applications that can be installed even on smartphones, what makes them more attractive and availible. Translators significantly facilitate to our travaling, reading international literature and many other activities that involve interaction with foreign language. Howewer, there are some disadvantages in this technologie. These computerized translations are not always accurate and do not sound natural in most cases. Moreover it is not possible to use computers for life speech translation as typing desired phrase consumes a lot of time. In addition to this our digitized result is not able to express our emotions and feelings. I believe that computers can’t substitute real knowledge of foreign language, because it is not only ability to find appropriate words but it is also new way of thinking. Ability to think is what differs us from computers. I’m totally agree with the phrase of famous philosopher Dekart “I think, therefore I am”. May be in the distant future we will have more advanced translation technologies, but nowadays children should learn languages at least to bring these technologies to life.