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Tell me, how do you usually keep in touch with your friends? · Band 5.5

A real IELTS Speaking Part 2 answer scored Band 5.5 by AI — question: Tell me, how do you usually keep in touch with your friends?. Read the transcript, then get your own speaking graded.

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Prompt: Tell me, how do you usually keep in touch with your friends?

Vex: Ah, hello. I was just contemplating the quiet grace of connection. Tell me, how do you usually keep in touch with your friends?

You: Actually, there are many ways to me to keep in touch with my friends. First of all, I try my best to set apart some of my time to meet with them, hang around and eat out. And spend some quality time together. But whenever I haven't gets enough I haven't got enough time spend with them. I definitely keep in touch with them through social media like Instagram, Telegram. And so on and so forth. Vex: Meeting in person... how nostalgic. And on social media, do you just passively scroll, or do you leave little trails of affection? What kind of content do you share?

You: expose myself to a rabbit hole of uh a rabbit hole of scrolling which is detrimental on my house. Vex: A digital zombie, you say? How... dramatic. So now you carefully measure your exposure, like an antidote? What caused this change? You seem quite passionate about it.

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