IELTS Writing Tasks 1 and 2: Supermarket Complaint and Disappearing Skills

Dear Sir or Madam, my name is Liam Test, i'm the student that got hurt in the accident in front of your row of bean-tins in your supermarket. Let me give you some details about the accident first. I was just going around the corner from the vegetables to beans when a pregnant woman crashed into me with her shopping cart. It was impossible to see each other before the accident because this special corner is very dark and the lights didn't even work, probably because the eight bulbs were old and didn't serve anymore. Anyway, the floor was very slippery and wet because the rain was dripping through the non-waterproof ceiling, so I slipped, fell, and knocked myself out on the bean-tins. I lost consciousness. Your insurance paid for the accident but let me just give you some advice to prevent further accidents in your supermarket: make sure your ceiling is fixed and the floor is dry. You could also arrange your rows in a way that makes it possible for your customers to take care of each other. Always get the lights checked at least once a week, and change damaged lightbulbs immediately. This would help making our supermarket a safer place. Sincerely yours, . . .

In the past the people used to make clothes and doing repairs on things in the house more than nowadays. This is caused for many aspects that are present in our days like the quantity of other activities available to do, the differences in jobs and in lifestyle. When in the past days the people finished their workday, it was still early and they had not too many other activities to do, so they spented their free time doing some of the repairs. While, in the other hand most of the women used to make clothes. Nowadays is, bigger the number of women that works, in addition to that, the work is normally longer and more stressing for everybody, so the people is getting used to live as fast as possible. Another element that is pushing to this situation is that as the people is having less and less time for a hobby, any hobby will require more and more time. Because everything that you want to try to repair is more technical and complicated than before, and to do some repair the people almost have to be a qualified technician. On top of all that the tradition is being lost because the people learn the traditions when they are young and from their parents, but nowadays the young people have too many distractions and hobbies like sports, going to shopping malls, video games, computers, cinema, amusement parks, email and chat rooms, instead of spending their free time with their parents. This situation is happening in the entire world, and it's caused in part by the globalisation and the advance of the technology in the home. So the situation is that when the people need more knowledge to their hobbies, they have less time to acquire it because of their work. And that to transmit the traditions to other generations the adults need the young's people attention which they don't have because of new distractions the youngs have.