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

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Yes, of course, I consider it a skill because when you make a friendship with someone, you share ideas together and everything. If you can keep this friendship lasting for some time, it's a great skill because you can handle each other. A lot of people in this friendship shout at each other and end their friendship as if it never happened before, so it's a difficult task.

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Yes of course I consider it as a skill because when you make a friendship with someone you have shared ideas, you share ideas together and everything. If you can keep this friendship last for some time, it’s a great skill because you can handle each other. A lot of people with this friendship shout at each other and end their friendship as It’s never happened this way before, so it’s a difficult task.

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friendship: 4

skill: 2

because: 2

other: 2

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Task Response

The response addresses the question directly and provides a clear opinion. However, the explanation could be more developed with specific examples or reasons to support the idea that maintaining a friendship is a skill. Expanding on the challenges and strategies involved in maintaining long-term friendships would strengthen the answer.

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The answer is generally coherent, but there are some minor hesitations and repetitions ('you share ideas, you share ideas together'). To improve, try to vary your sentence structure and use discourse markers more effectively to signal transitions between ideas.

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