Band 6+: You have learned from a news article that a real estate company is going to build a shopping center near your home. However, you think that the shopping center should not be built there. Write a letter to the city counselor. In your letter, • say how you have learned about the plan • explain how it is going to negatively affect the residential area where you live • say what you think the city council should do about it

Dear Sir or Madam

I recently saw a newspaper article stating that your real estate company is going to build a shopping center. I am writing this letter to concern about building a mall in our residential area.

In the residential area, families live. These families include elderly people as well as infants. The shopping center will be open late at night, creating noise that will affect students, elderly people, and babies. Area residents work all day, and when they want to relax, I think your idea will negatively affect them.

So, I humbly request that you reconsider building in this residential area. I suggest you build where fewer families live.

Yours sincerely

Sushma Bhattarai