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Band 8+: Describe a piece of good news that you heard about someone you know well You should say: What it was When you heard it • How you knew it And explain how you felt about it

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I've heard a lot of wonderful news in my life, but I'd like to talk about a remarkable piece of news I recently heard about my best friend, Anu. I clearly remember it was just a few days ago. I saw my friend's status, and she had gotten an amazing job in Chandigarh. The glow on her face was amazing, and I was so happy for her. She's one of my closest friends; we grew up in the same neighborhood and have always supported each other through thick and thin. I can say that if she hadn't gone through that specific phase of her life, she would have missed a significantly crucial aspect of her life to get that job in Chandigarh. She burned the midnight oil and worked incredibly hard. She explained the whole process when I called her, and she was on cloud nine at that time. She explained how she applied for the job, how her interviews went, and how she was a little worried about her position because before that job, she had applied to other firms but always got rejected. This time, she really did well and got a great job. I can see that success and hard work always pay off, and this opens new doors for her. Her success greatly impacted me in a positive way. After hearing about her career, I also took my career and studies into consideration and started focusing on my studies as well.
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I have heard lot of um. Wonderful news in my life but here I would like to talk about a remarkable news that I recently heard about my best friend Anu. I clearly remember it was matter of um. Few days back at that time I just viewed my friend? S status that she got a very amazing job in Chandikar and um, the glow was on her face was amazing and I was very happy for her because she is my one of closest friend as we brought up in same locality and we always stood for each other in every ups and downs and I can say that if uh, I had she had not gone through that specific phase of her life she would have missed significantly crucial aspect of her life to get that job. In Chandikar. She burned midnight oil and do lots of hard work and she explained the um, whole process when I called her and she was uh. On 7th heaven at that time. She explained how she applied for that job and how her interviews goes and she was little bit worried about her position because uh. Before that job she also applied to other firms but always she gets rejection but this time she really did well and get a good job and I can see that success or hard work always payoff and uh, this all also opens new doors to her and her success greatly impacted me in positive way. And uh, after her career I also taken my career and studies into consideration and started focusing on my studies also.

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