Talk about a time when you helped a friend.: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

Well, on 9th June this year, my best friend's mom passed away and ever since then, for a while, he had been really distant and he would not talk about her and I think for three months he was not able to talk about her or talk to us openly. So I was always there for him and I, you know, kept asking him if he was okay, I kept checking in on him and then recently he, I think he's gotten better mentally and he's starting to open up about his mother, he's starting to talk about her, remembering her in good ways and I've just been there for him for like the past eight months, supporting him every step of the way, accompanying him to his therapy sessions and accompanying him home, staying at his place whenever he feels lonely or whenever he needs just someone to talk to, it's like a no-judgement zone and I love to hear about his mom and I love to see how it makes him so happy and I just really want to help my friend get better and overcome his grief and

It happened around last week when my friend's sister is about to be married this month. So she needed my help with wedding chores. As you know a wedding house is just full of chaos and relatives. So my friend wanted to buy a few jewelry and she had no one to do it with. So she asked me for a shopping help to pick out her jewelry, to know what goes well on a dress, just somebody to help her give my opinion on. I felt great about it because it feels good to be included in the wedding as such. Also there's a saying in our language you should help people in the wedding. It's a good blessing and I get to experience the whole wedding atmosphere and we had fun going to the market to pick jewelry and to help with the sweets. So yeah in total I really love helping her.

I would like to talk about a time when I helped my friend. It was in my secondary school. I helped my friend Nihal. Nihal is a fat boy with dark color. He was poor in biology. He was unable to understand the terms and topics in the subject. So I helped him in understanding these projects and lab activities in the subject. Moreover, I shared a lot of information with him regarding the subject and about the discoveries and inventions of many things in biology. I appreciate myself for doing that because sharing knowledge to someone can increase our knowledge as well as knowledge of other people. So definitely that would be a great experience for me to share my knowledge with someone and improve their knowledge as well as my knowledge. I think one should always be helpful to their friends and others because sharing and helping is a very good habit to have. More often, I help many of my friends in doing their things. Recently, a couple of days back, I helped one of my friends in riding a bike because he was unable to ride a bike initially.

It is a little difficult to answer this question because it is rather very brief and it requires a lot of elucidation. I have helped many of my friends but if I should think of one instance it would be the help that I did for Manasa. She is one of my closest friends from college. She was stuck in a very toxic relationship and I offered her a lot of support by listening to her problems and trying to offer viable solutions to her issues of the day. Her boyfriend would be extremely inconsiderate and would not understand any of her perspective which will lead to her being very upset. Therefore, I will always offer her my shoulder to cry on and always try to cheer her up into a better mood. I have been doing this for the past 15 months now. They have been dating for almost 2 years and this has been one of my biggest helps for a friend. Especially when things escalated between them, I offered her my house. I asked her to stay with me just so that her mood can elevate. We did a movie marathon and I hope she felt better after spending that time with me.

It occurred during the month of July of this year. My friend met with an accident in his hometown. While he was driving a bike, an auto came in between and they both collided. He got fractured on his leg. At that time he was out of money. When I came to know about this news, I went to visit him at the hospital.

Well, I'd like to talk about one of the incident when I helped my friend before the 12th standard exam, because in 12th, this is a board exam. We have to attend the board exam and before the exam, my friend was so petrified about the exam because he had not enough preparation time due to his illness. Before the night, he called me and told me to give some tips and I gave him a lots of tips and he was so dedicated throughout our conversation. He took some notes so that he can apply on the exam and it's a great privilege to me that I could motivate someone. After giving the exam, he was extremely happy because he got his desired score in the English exam. He was motivated by me. He was thankful to me because he thought because of me he got that marks. Otherwise, he had failed on the exam. Personally, it is over the moon to me because whenever I am helping someone and if he did a good result, then definitely it's a good achievement. Nowadays, he is now in a good position in the English Coursing Center as an instructor, which is making me so proud because one day he was so petrified about English. Now, he is teaching others how to read, how to write and how to do well in English. I think it's a full of beans for me.

Generally, I am a very helpful person, so if I see anyone in need, I will be the first one to go and help them out. Remembering about an event where I helped my friend was when she planned a solo trip to go to Rishikesh. She was so spectacle about the decision that she made. It was her first time going on a solo trip, so she was not very sure about it and it was a new city for her. And that is when I came to help her out. As I have been to Rishikesh quite a few times, she called me and she asked me if I will be available to help her. I immediately went to her place. We both sat down, I gave her a list of ideas, I prepared a beautiful itinerary for her, I told her some beautiful places where she is able to visit, some delicious delicacies that she can try while she is in Rishikesh. I told her about my experience about river rafting as it was my first experience for an adventurous activity that I did. It was amazing, full of adventures. I told her about that and I think at the end she was quite confident that she will be able to make that trip. And that feeling of satisfaction that I got after helping her out is really indescribable.

So this happened 2 years before when I was studying in grade 10. At the time my friend was sitting next to me and was writing notes which was written in the board. She was just copying and suddenly she felt something weird. She woke up and was about to go to the restroom when I saw a stain at her dress. She was really worried and the stain occurred in the bench which we were sitting. She got really worried and I helped her to clean the bench and helped her to cover up the stain and wash it. So I think that's a memorable event which is really weird and I never thought it would happen. Me and her really learnt a lesson to sit in a bench by taking off the skirt.