1- a situation when you waited for a bus or a train 2- a challenging profession you know about

"Describe a friend"
you should be able 
to talk about the following IELTS cue card topics as well: 
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Describe your best friend.
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Describe friend from your childhood.
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Describe a school friend you remember well.
x
Describe a friend you like to spend time with.
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Describe a friend who you really like.
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Describe someone you is similar to you.
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Describe an adventurous person you know about.
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Describe a person who has an interesting hobby or profession. 
x
Describe someone who has influenced you a lot. 
Describe your family.
 
You should say:
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what type of family it is (nuclear, joint etc.) 
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how many family members you have in your family. 
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what you do together as a family. 
And explain how important your family is to you.
[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:
The family is the oldest unit of the world where people lived together with the 
members including parents, kids and other members. But with the change of 
time, families have been divided into different categories. 
In France, most of the families are nuclear. For more clarification, a nuclear 
family always refers to a family where two parents are living with their kids. No 
other members are included in that family. But sometimes, the family may 
experience several difficulties when guests come to visit them. I live with my 

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own family while my parents are living on their own. My father and mother live 
in another city and they also have the same situation. They have formed their 
own nuclear family while the two brothers and one sister of mine have also the 
similar type of family. Living in a nuclear family is preferable to me for a wide 
number of causes. It helps to lead a stress-free life. However, there are some 
joint families living in France and all of them have migrated from different 
Asian countries. Thus, the number of such families is lower. 
In my family, I have three other family members except me. I am David and by 
profession, I am an engineer. I live with my wife Lisa, my son – Abran and 
daughter Silvya. Lisa is a teacher by profession and teaches at a senior school 
adjacent to my apartment. My son is three years older than my daughter and 
now is in his fourth grade while the daughter got her admission at the 
elementary level in the current year. We are a happy family. Lisa takes care of 
the kids when she comes back from the school. It is beneficial for me that 
neither Lisa nor I have to care for the kids when they are at school. She brings 
the kids home when she returns from her own workplace. In my off days, I go 
to bring the kids from the school and both of them are in the same school 
which is also positive for my small family. 
Usually, I do not get enough time in the day time to spend with the family 
members, especially with the kids. On most of the days, I have to return after 
the dusk and find the kids busy in their studies. But when I could return early in 
the evening from my work, I try to spend some quality hours with them by 
playing or making fun. Generally, I participate in different indoor sports with 
them and play chess. This is a very special game for the two. Sometimes, I take 
all the members for outing in the holidays. We visit the tourist spots and other 
destinations, watch cinemas or attend in exhibitions. Sometimes, we take food 
outside the home and I have made a routine that I will take dinner outside 
once in a month together and it will help strengthening our bond. It will also 
help us to get rid of the boredoms of the mechanised life. 
My family is the issue of top most importance to me. I love my family. I have 
been supporting my wife in different household chores and also share some 
responsibilities as much possible for me. Usually, I shop groceries for the week 
and sometimes cook foods at home so that Lisa could take care of the kids. 
Sometimes, I read out stories to my kids so that they could fall in sleep. 
Besides, I try to teach the standard norms and manners to my kids so that they 
could be presentable everywhere and survive. This is my way to teach them 
how to deal with the world. They are highly important to me and thus I try to 

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