Topic 12 : Describe a friend of your family you remember from your childhood.

IELTS speaking cue card topic 12 : Describe a friend of your family you remember from your childhood.

Background

My family has always been friendly and compassionate for people around us and we also got the same respect and friendship from them.
When I was a child, plenty of people used to come to my home.
Some of them were relatives. Some were friends of my father or grandfather.
All of them used to be friendly and they showered love to us specifically on me because I was fat and fluffy in my childhood.

Who the person was and how your family knew this person?

Among them one person whom I remembered was my grandfather’s closest and childhood friend.
He was of my grandpa’s age.
He was an army officer and never got married.
He has been a friend of my family even before my father was born.

How often this person visited your family.

I do not remember a single day when he had not come to our home. Sometime his visit used to be double in a day.

And explain why you remember this person.

He was a well built person with broad shoulder and sturdy body.
He has compassionate eyes and smiling face.
I was his favorite and vice versa.
I remember him because of several reasons.
Firstly, He used to come with plenty of gifts for the family member of mine and there had always been a special gift for me.
Sometime he would take us to his farm where he would tell us stories of his bravery in army.
He was a jolly person with instant wit. I remember his amusing jokes he used to tell us.
But the prime reason, why I remember him, is an occasion where he helped my grandfather.
We hear frequently that a friend in need is friend indeed.
This friend of our family has proven this saying. Once my grandfather was in desperate need of money.
Due to some mismanagement in his business. He lost some money and got in debt.
At that time this man helped my grandfather without asking anything in return.
Really he was an ego less, selfless person whom anyone admired.

Sample answer 2

Friends will come and go during the life, however the importance of their presence and absence never lost.
Having good friends in our life is boon of god.
They are backbone of our life.
A good friend always walks with you whatever the situation and they show the care and concern by their reaction rather it is big or small.
Some people possess many qualities to make them good friends of others. I have lot of friends from school and college life time.
I believe that it is fate of mine to have such a satisfactory friends in my life.
But I never forget one of my friends who were also like family.

Her name was Neeta Joshi. She lived just next door to me, as well as my mother’s best friend. Likewise she also became good friend of mine too.
By profession she was a teacher in primary school. Look wise she was having good personality.
Carrying various sorts of quality she had also good relation around the neighborhood. She used to visit my home twice or thrice in a week.
I shared everything to her because I felt that she was problem solving person. With having such characteristic also she was better cook, I always insist her to teach me various food dishes.
Moreover she was good at telling story and joke so, when we met it was great fun because of her funny jokes.
Due to helping nature she was ready to needy people. She took classes for such student who cannot afford fees of tuition. I also went to her for solving my doubt too.
So, I feel proud to having such a kind hearted person in my life in form of friend. Age does not matter in friendship; feeling should have from both sides.
I never forgot this person because of her loving and caring nature.

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