Band 7: DESCIBE A FRIEND WHO IS IMPORTANT TO YOU the name of your friend where and when you met this friend what kinds of things you and this friend like to do together and explain why this friend is important to you (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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Well, I would say that my best friend's name is Penina. I met her in high school, back when we were still students. She's been a great friend to me. Unfortunately, my family had to move to the city, and we lost contact. It was really hard not being able to communicate, and it definitely affected our relationship. But fate intervened, and we reconnected when we were both admitted to the same college. I was so excited to see her again! We had so much to catch up on, sharing stories about our lives back in high school. Even though we'd been apart, we realized we still had so much in common. We even remembered our larger group of friends from high school. We love doing things together, like going swimming, playing tennis, and spending time with our families. We're both married with children, and we often take our families out together. We're truly inseparable. I'm so grateful to have her in my life. She's always there for me when I need her. We share so much, from our past experiences to our current lives. We even send our children to the same school! We support each other through thick and thin. If one of us needs to pick up the kids from school while the other is at work, you can always count on my friend to be there. This has strengthened our bond, even between our children and spouses. It's truly a blessing to have such a close friend.

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Well, I would say that my best friend’name is penina. This friend of mine, I met her while we were in our high school. That is, back when we were schooling. And uh, she has been a good friend to me. But the fate of my parent having h to migrate to. To the urban area, we lost contact with my friend and that is how we were not ablely to communicate. And this really affected our relationship. But the fate opened up a, uh, chance for us again to meet when we were first admitted in our college. This really made me very, very excited when I met her, uh, again, because we were able to share many stories of our past life. Life, how the life was back in the high school. And we really found that though we had lost contact, we really shared very many things because um, we were able again to recall our. Even the larger group of our friends. Uh, I can say that the kind of the things that I love and we love doing together is, is that things like we go swimming, we go playing todayot tennis, we love going out with our families. We are both married, we have children. We take our families together for an announing and we’really born together. I can say that, um, it has been a very, very good thing to keep this friend of mine because, uh, I find it very, very good. She really comes to be of help to me when I really need her. We share a lot. We share a lot about our past. We share common things like uh, we take our children to the same school. We stand for each other when it is time of need. Maybe when one is at work and needs to pick kids from school, you find that my friend would really be there for me. And this really has really strengthened even, uh, our bond, even between our children and even between our spouses.

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