Letter to Your Friend About a Field Trip You Enjoyed

A field trip letter is a narrative, so it follows time order: where you went and with whom, what you saw and did, and what you took away from it. Use the past tense throughout and keep one incident at the centre — a letter that lists everything the class did reads like an itinerary rather than an experience.

The question: Write a letter to your friend about a field trip you have enjoyed recently.

The format

Work out the sequence first

This is a narrative, so list the events before writing: departure, arrival, what you did, one incident, the return. Letters written without that list describe the first hour in detail and rush everything after it.

• Note the times — when you left, when you got back.
• Choose the one incident that will sit at the centre.
• 🚨 Keep the whole narrative in the past tense.

Put one incident at the centre

A trip letter needs a moment, not an itinerary. Something that went wrong, something unexpected, something that made everyone laugh — and the rest of the day becomes background to it.

• Two or three sentences on the incident; one on everything else.
• Sensory detail earns marks: what you heard, what the water looked like.
• Show the enjoyment through detail rather than announcing it.

Ask about your friend's holidays

Close by asking whether your friend went anywhere. A narrative letter that ends with the return journey stops rather than closes.

Model answer

Model answer (about 185 words)

Zindabazar, Sylhet

5 September 2026

Dear Shuvo,

I have been meaning to write since our college trip to Ratargul, and now that the examinations are behind me I finally can.

We left at half past five in the morning, forty of us in two buses, and reached the swamp forest a little after eight. You have to go in by boat — the water sits among the trees so the boatmen pole you between the trunks, and for about twenty minutes nobody in our boat said anything at all, which for our class is remarkable. Our botany teacher pointed out the koroch trees standing in water up to their lower branches and explained how they survive months of flooding. Later one of the boys leaned too far over the side trying to photograph a kingfisher and went in, and the rest of the day was organised around drying his shirt.

We got back at nine that night, filthy and hoarse. I have been on longer trips but not on a better one. Were you able to go anywhere in the holidays? Write and tell me. My regards to your mother.

Yours ever,

Rakib

What earns and loses marks

• Anchor the narrative with times and numbers — half past five, forty of us, twenty minutes. They cost nothing to write and make an invented trip read like a real one.
• Length is not the point — a letter of about 150 words that does the four parts properly beats a rambling 300-word one.
• Keep the tense consistent: a letter about something that happened stays in the past, a letter about a plan stays in the future.
• Ask at least one question of your friend, so the letter reads as one half of a conversation rather than a speech.
• Leave a clear blank line between paragraphs — layout marks are given for what the examiner can see at a glance.

Mistakes to avoid

• ✗ We enjoyed very much and it was a memorable day for us. ✓ We got back at nine that night, filthy and hoarse. — show the enjoyment instead of announcing it
• ✗ We are going by boat and we see many trees. ✓ We went in by boat and saw the koroch trees standing in water. — a past narrative stays in the past