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Learning English through Social Issues

/ You recently read the following excerpt on a local online news website:

With higher rents and competition from larger chain stores, smaller shops are finding it increasingly difficult
to keep their business afloat.

• Write a letter to the editor.

• Explain why you think small, local shops are important to the community.
• Suggest at least two ways to help these smaller businesses.
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Content: 5
The ideas are mostly relevant, especially the first part which
~o\.k~J -f" ,;kf"'llv explains the importance of these small shops to the local

C~n~ community. To make the ideas more concrete, you may raise more
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NO~ specific examples in your community (utilise your role!) to show

their place in local residents’ heart.
The recommendations are, however, relatively ungrounded without
much support on their FEASIBILITY or EFFECTIVENESS!
90 Successful examples or cases are required to actually show that
they would be viable measures!
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Language: 6-
Wide range of sentence structures and vocabulary have been used
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quite appropriately and accurately albeit some minor spelling errors.

Organisation: 5
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The part about recommendation is not really developed logically
from the topic sentence - legislation should be done by the
government plus the examples you raised (Lui Seng Chun and
DSE-ENG LANG 2--4 4 do not really match the case in hand (small shops
Central Market)
=/= with great historical values / heritage).