IELTS Speaking Part 2: IELTS Cue Card/ Candidate Task Card

Describe a person you once lived with

: You should say

who this person was
how long you lived with this person
why you lived with him/ her
and explain why you no longer live with him /her

: Sample Answer

I lived with my parents and siblings for most of my life. After I got married, I started living with my husband, Johny, and now I live in our own apartment with my husband and my daughter, Emma. However, for this cue card topic, I would like to talk about my university friend, Sienna, with whom I lived more than 5 years. I thank you for this opportunity to talk about a person I once lived with

Sienna is an interior designer and works in a large private company which is reputed as one of the best designing firms in our country. She is married to a doctor and they have two children. I first met Sienna when I started living in my university residential hall. She was my roommate and was an ideal roommate with whom I stayed in the same room till I finished my graduation

Our luck brought us together and we started living in the same room without even knowing each other ever before. However, we became best friends and we were lucky to have each other as roommates and friends. She was very supportive, compassionate, talented, helpful and humble. During our senior years in our university, we could have arranged a single room for each of us and live separately. But, I did not do that and preferred to live with Sienna. She was the sister I never had! Since both of us had the same major in the university, we studied together, helped each other completing our assignments, and planned for our extracurricular activities together. That was a great help for both of us and due to the peer pressure, we always studied hard and passed most of our exams with flying colours

Why don’t we live together anymore? Well, both of us got married and we no longer are university students. We have our family and our own career and family. However, we are still good friends and she lives in the same city I live in. We often meet and our friendship is still important to us. We have so many memories together and hopefully our friendship will last n matter how busy our lives become or how far we live