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Band 7+: * Would you consider maintaining a close friendship over several years to be a skill?

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Yeah, of course, I consider it a skill because when you make a friendship with someone, you have to share ideas, tastes, and everything. If you can keep this friendship lasting for a long time, it's a great skill because you can handle each other. A lot of people, when their friends shout at their faces, just end their friendship as if it never existed. So yeah, it's a difficult thing.

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Yeah, of course, I will consider it a skill because when you made friendship with anybody, so you have to share ideas, share tastes, share everything. So if you can, if you could keep this friendship last a lot, so it’s a great skill because you can handle each other. So yeah, because a lot of people, when their friends shout to their faces, they just end their friendship like it’s never been. So yeah, it’s a difficult thing.

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Vocabulary Complexity:
A2 - Upper Beginner
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Vocabulary Repetition:

friendship: 3

their: 3

skill: 2

because: 2

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Pronunciation

Your pronunciation is quite good. Working on consistency and tackling difficult sounds may enhance clarity.

Task Response

The answer adequately addresses the question and provides relevant examples. Consider expanding on the specific skills involved in maintaining a long-term friendship, such as communication, compromise, and empathy, to further enhance the response.

Fluency & Coherence

The answer is coherent and mostly fluent. There's a slight hesitation and repetition ("So yeah"), but the overall flow is good. Minor improvements in sentence structure would enhance fluency.

Lexical Resource

Vocabulary is adequate and mostly accurate. Words like "handle" could be replaced with more precise synonyms (e.g., "manage disagreements," "compromise") to demonstrate a wider range. The phrase "shout to their faces" is a bit informal; a more sophisticated alternative would improve lexical resource.

Grammatical Range & Accuracy

Grammar is mostly accurate, but there are a few minor errors (e.g., tense inconsistencies, article usage). More complex grammatical structures and consistent tense usage would improve the score. For example, instead of 'if you could keep this friendship last a lot', a more accurate phrasing would be 'if you can maintain this friendship for a long time'.

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