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Describe someone you know who is a single parent.
 
You should say:
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who is he/she 
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what s/he does 
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how s/he takes care of his/her child 
and explain what difficulties you think s/he faces as a single parent. 
[You will have to talk about the topic for one to two minutes. You have one 
minute to think about what you're going to say. You can make some notes to 
help you if you wish.]
Model Answer 1:
Family, undoubtedly, is the most important aspect of our life and people do 
everything for their families. But sometimes, they families get broken or do not 
start in a conventional way and the remaining members, especially the 
parents, are to lead a single life. I know, Augustine, a single mother living in my 
neighbourhood. 
Augustine lives with her son in a small rented apartment just opposite to my 
apartment building. I know her as I have to communicate with her regularly as 
her son and my daughters are in the same elementary school here in Paris. 
Augustine has got split with her husband around two years ago. Her husband, 

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used to do nothing for living rather relying on Augustine. They had quarrels 
several times over the issue. She took measures to make her husband active 
but everything was in vain. The man did not do anything and by the same time, 
Augustine got pregnant. Since she had no other ways left, she started a small 
job amid her pregnancy. Despite such pathetic situation, her husband had no 
willingness to start working for a living. So, she got divorced with her husband. 
Augustine, now, is a school teacher. She teaches in a local secondary school. 
Besides, she also plays the role of mentor in different courses, especially she 
teaches French and German languages in a language club in Paris. She earns 
sufficiently and spends almost all the bucks for her baby boy. She takes classes 
when her boy is in the school but when she takes classes in the evening, for 
the language courses, she keeps her boy under my guardianship. The little boy 
plays with my daughter. Both of them have developed a good friendship. The 
two are in the same class and sometimes I help them to perform their home 
works and other assignments. When Augustine returns from her work, I talk to 
her sometimes about her day. She is like an intimate friend of mine, especially 
my husband is sympathetic to her for her bad luck. Though I suggested her to 
get married again, she declined to get engaged again. In fact, she is enjoying 
this part of her life. 
Though reluctant to get married again, she takes care of her son perfectly. 
Once I asked her about the care of the boy and she explained every issue to 
me. Even she is ready to die for her boy. She lives in a moderate apartment 
here and she could easily leave the residence to save money. But she is on the 
view that her son has been born there and she plans to stay at the same 
building as long as she can. Besides, the expenses for the school are large as 
the school is one of the most reputed elementary school in the city. She is 
meeting all the needs of the boy. She is working twice in a day for her boy. 
Firstly she teaches in a school in the morning hours and in the evening she 
attends the language club for mentoring. So, she earns a handsome amount 
but she spends all of her earnings for the boy. She also mentioned that she is 
saving a share from her entire earning for the future of her boy. In fact, she is 
performing all the tasks as much possible for her.
Being a single parent is a highly troublesome task. If both the husband and wife 
live under a single shade, they could share all the necessary activities. Usually, 
men are engaged in wage-earning while the women are the homemakers. But 
when a part of the bonding is missing, I mean if the husband or wife gets split, 
life becomes difficult. As human beings, we cannot live alone. Hence the family 

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arrived as an institution to live together. All the family members should work 
together to make the family run. But when there is a single parent, s/he is to 
do everything which seems impossible for a single individual to perform. Now 
Augustine is to look after her boy, earn her livelihood and maintain the society 
all by herself and often she is unable to balance among the other things. It 
becomes difficult for her to maintain everything smoothly and if she had her