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Letter to a Neighbour Asking for Help While You Are Away on Holiday

Task Requirements

📋Scenario

You are going on holiday for two weeks and need your neighbour to help look after your home while you are away. Write a letter to your neighbour.

✓Points to Address

  • 1Let your neighbour know about your travel plans and the dates you will be away
  • 2Explain specifically what help you need such as collecting mail or watering plants
  • 3Express your appreciation and offer to return the favour in the future
SAMPLE RESPONSE
Dear David,

I hope this letter finds you well. I'm writing to let you know that I'll be away on holiday for two weeks, from July 15th to July 29th, and I would be incredibly grateful if you could assist with a few small tasks at my house during that period.

I would be immensely grateful if you could collect any mail from the letterbox, ensuring it doesn't accumulate. Additionally, the plants will definitely need watering: the indoor plants every three to four days, and the outdoor patio pots will require a thorough soaking twice a week. If you wouldn't mind putting our recycling bin out on Tuesday, July 23rd, and bringing it back in, that would be greatly appreciated. I've left a spare key under the garden gnome by the front door for your convenience.

Thank you so much for considering my request. Please call my mobile, 07700 900345, if anything urgent arises. I'd be absolutely delighted to reciprocate the favour for you anytime in the future.

Many thanks,
Alex Sharma