Band 7+: Your local council is considering closing a sports and leisure centre that it runs, in order to save money. Write a letter to the local council. In your letter • Give details of how you and your friends or family use the centre. • Explain why the sports and leisure centre is important for the local community. • Describe the possible effects on local people if the center closes.

Dear Sir,

I am writing to request you to please reconsider your decision of closing the sports complex.

The sports complex is a central place which connects all the people of the society. In evenings, all the elder people of the town go there to relax and connect with their friends. Some people come here for a walk and others do their yoga. Moreover, many young kids come here regularly to play sports like football and cricket. I also go there along with my friends to play cricket on weekends. My parents, too, go there for walk every Monday and Tuesday.

With your decision to close this center, all these people would be deprived of this facility. Old people will not be able to connect with their friends and young kids cannot continue their sports as there is no other open ground where they can play.

Given the possible effects over the society, I hope you would revert your decision.

Yours faithfully,

Abdullah