General Training Task 1
An English-speaking friend is coming to study in your town next year and has written for information and advance.
Write a letter with these information:
• Offer to find a place for him /.her to live
• Give advice about how to find a part-time job
• Give information on where they can learn your language
Begin your letter with: Dear Farhan Wakalanud
At least 150 words
Dear Farhan Wakalanud
I am glad to hear you have a plan to continue your study in Indonesia next year. You would migrate from Beijing directly. I think it would be amusing if you rent a boarding house where it is near from your campus. If you please, I could search the best boarding house in area. Simply tell me your wishes to make sure your type which is based on your budget.
When you are ready to move, I suggest you to apply a part-time job in some restaurants because it could pay your monthly expenditure. You do not have to confuse about the job’s procedures and ways concerning I ...
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I am glad to hear you have a plan to continue your study in Indonesia next year.
Suggestion: I am glad to hear that you have a plan to continue your study in Indonesia next year.
You do not have to confuse about the job’s procedures and ways concerning I would send the information to your e-mail.
Suggestion: You do not have to confuse about the job’s procedures. I will send the information to your by e-mail.
Sentence: Also, I have read your mail that you interesting learn Indonesian language to prevent shock culture while you are arriving.
Description: A pronoun, personal, nominative, not 3rd person singular is not usually followed by an adjective
Suggestion: Refer to you and interesting
Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 6.5 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 9
No. of Words: 212 200
No. of Characters: 943 1000
No. of Different Words: 129 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.816 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.448 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.376 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 54 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 41 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 26 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 15 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.308 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 4.967 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.462 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.436 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.606 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.298 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4