Letter Sample #143 – Requesting advertising the meeting in the newspaper

GT Writing Task 1 (Letter Writing) Sample # 143

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

You are organizing a big meeting where many people from all over the country are going to attend. You have decided to write a letter to the publisher requesting advertising this meeting in their newspaper.

Write a letter to the publisher of the newspaper. In your letter: 

• explain the reason behind writing the letter
• mention the time and place for the meeting
• say about the motive of the meeting

Write at least 150 words.

You do NOT need to write any addresses.

Begin your letter as follows:

Dear Sir or Madam,

Model Answer:

Dear Sir or Madam,

My name is Phillip Morris, and I am writing this letter to request to advertise something important in your popular daily newspaper. Please let me explain below what I really intend to do.

Actually, I am planning to organize a big meeting, exactly after two weeks from today, which is supposed to be attended by many people from all over the country. And the purpose of this important meeting is to create some kind of awareness among the people of our country about the devastating effects of the arsenic problem in many parts of our country.

In fact, as the publisher of a prominent newspaper like yours, you must have already known that because of the high level of arsenic presence, many people in our country are not able to drink their underground waters, and they are also suffering from some debilitating skin diseases that are hard to contain and control.

Therefore, I would like to request you to please advertise the news of this meeting, to be held on 19th of September, in your esteemed newspaper and do a great public service to the people of our country.

Yours faithfully,

Phillip Morris