IELTS Writing Task 2 with sample answer.
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
What do you want most in a friend someone who is intelligent, or someone who has a sense of humor, or someone who is reliable?
Which one of these characteristics is most important to you?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
Sample Answer:
Actually it’s a tough choice to choose from the three qualities. It would be great if all the three qualities are there among my friends. It would be an ideal combination. But if I have to choose from the three, which is actually a hard choice I would chose my friend who is someone intelligent.
Sense of humor without intelligence might appear foolish and a person who is not intelligent enough how he can be reliable. What’s the use of a stupid friend’s reliability without intelligence?
Those who are real intelligent are not dishonest and can be reliable. An intelligent man can only help a friend in an ominous situation. Here sense of humor and reliability has no value as coins! Friends are said to be the double of a person which means ones copy. Hence to get the best from a friend and get the best of benefits intelligence should be the most sought after quality in a friend.
Where light is to darkness, intelligence to friendship. Friends are for counsel, friends are for crises. The world is filled with extraordinary stories of friendship. When someone cries in the wilderness of hopelessness it is friends who lend their hands to him. It is intelligence in friends which can help a friend in need.
Especially the people who are scholar, thinker, genuine entrepreneur and scientist tend to make friendship with the people of their stature. Political history filled with the stories of such friendship. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are two of the many friendship legends. In Indian subcontinent we will find Jawaharlal Nehru and Maulana Azad. It is the same story behind Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook. They are the success stories of friendship. Bill Gates, the Harvard drop out who come up with Microsoft which actually changed the canvass of modern world. And what about Facebook? Some students of Harvard found out a way to communicate among themselves through a medium which after sometimes turned into be the greatest social media! It is friendship colored with intelligence and knowledge which had a strong impression in our time.