Add-on · GT Writing · 5 sessions

Task 1 Letter Workshop

Focus: extensive vocabulary, synonyms & paraphrase Every practice box is AI-marked Target: Band 6 → 7

The five GT Writing day pages teach the letter format once each. This workshop is the deliberate-practice layer on top: five more sessions built entirely around vocabulary range — the synonym banks and paraphrase techniques that move Lexical Resource from a 6 to a 7 — and around building a genuine habit of using AI feedback to revise, not just to collect a score.

This workshop does not repeat the Letter Bank's functional phrases (openings, closings, the 40 situations) — keep that page open alongside this one. What's here is new: word-level synonym charts, paraphrase drills, and a revise-and-resubmit routine attached to every timed letter.

The one habit this workshop is built around

Write → Get AI Evaluation → read the lowest criterion → make two targeted edits → click Get AI Evaluation again on the same draft → compare bands. Every session ends with this loop. By Session 5 it should be automatic. See Session 2 for the full walkthrough and Session 5 for the complete guide to reading the four criteria.

Sessions

S1
Baseline & the Register Synonym Map A timed cold-write to anchor your progress, then the twelve words every letter overuses — with formal, semi-formal and informal alternatives for each.

Open session 1
S2
Formal Letters — Complaint & Request Complaint and request lexis, formal paraphrase drills, and the full revise-and-resubmit routine using AI feedback.

Open session 2
S3
Semi-Formal Letters — Tone Control Softening language, an error-correction drill on register mismatch, and a synonym bank for describing problems without sounding formal or casual.

Open session 3
S4
Informal Letters — Natural Range Idiomatic synonyms for the words that make an informal letter sound like a textbook, and the phrasal-verb mirror chart.

Open session 4
S5
Full Mock & the AI-Feedback Mastery Guide A surprise timed letter, the consolidated synonym/paraphrase reference chart, and a complete guide to reading all four AI-marked criteria.

Open session 5

How to mark your practice

Every practice box has a Get AI Evaluation button (all four criteria, tuned for letters via data-variant="gt") and an Add from photo control, so handwritten class work can be photographed and turned into text to evaluate. Bands are an indicative practice estimate, not an official IELTS result — always submit by email too so your teacher sees the script.