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A movie your friend would like

Talk about a movie your friend would like.
or, Describe a film you would like to share with your friends.
or,

You should say:

  • Where you watched it
  • What it was about
  • Who you watched it with
  • Why you want to share it with friends
  • Why do you think your friend would like it?

You will have to talk about the topic for one to two minutes. You have one minute to think about what you are going to say. You can make some notes to help you if you wish.


Sample Answer 1

I’ve seen many movies in my life. Here, I would like to talk about a movie, which has had a lasting impression on me, and so I would like to share it with my friends. The movie is ‘Pihu’. It is based on a true story. I watched this movie on Netflix. I was just browsing through Netflix to watch something for about half an hour when I came across this title. I watched it alone. I would like to share it with my friends because I know they would also like it, just as I liked it.

I couldn’t shut down my laptop and watched it to the end. It’s about a 2-year-old girl, who is left alone with her mother, who has committed suicide. She does so after a fight with her husband. Pihu thinks that her mother is fast asleep and tries to wake her up many times. This little girl doesn’t even know what is safe for her. I could not blink an eye during the whole movie. This movie haunted my thoughts for days after that. When I came to know that this movie is based on a true incident, then I felt very sorry and sad for the little girl who must have suffered all that.

The film explores issues faced by married couples. It also highlights how important communication is between young couples. It must have been a challenge to shoot the whole film with a 2-year-old child in the main role. The film won the award for the Best Film in Morocco. It was the opening film at the International Film Festival of India, which was held in Goa in 2017. This film has also won many other awards.


Sample Answer 2

I’ve seen many movies in my life. Here, I would like to talk about a movie, which has had a lasting impression on me, and so I would like to share it with my friends. The movie is ‘Pihu’. It is based on a true story. I watched this movie on Netflix.

I was just browsing through Netflix to watch something for about half an hour when I came across this title. I watched it alone. I would like to share it with my friends because I know they would also like it, just as I liked it. I couldn’t shut down my laptop and watched it to the end. It’s about a 2-year-old girl, who is left alone with her mother, who has committed suicide. She does so after a fight with her husband. Pihu thinks that her mother is fast asleep and tries to wake her up many times.

This little girl doesn’t even know what is safe for her. I could not blink an eye during the whole movie. This movie haunted my thoughts for days after that. When I came to know that this movie is based on a true incident, then I felt very sorry and sad for the little girl who must have suffered all that. The film explores issues faced by married couples.

It also highlights how important communication is between young couples. It must have been a challenge to shoot the whole film with a 2-year-old child in the main role. The film won the award for the Best Film in Morocco. It was the opening film at the International Film Festival of India, which was held in Goa in 2017. This film has also won many other awards.


Sample Answer 3

I am a movie buff and spend most of my spare time watching movies. I mostly watch sci-fi or action movies but recently I watched a movie which was actually recommended to me by my father. He told me that after watching this movie I will be a changed person as this movie teaches some real and hard lessons about life and society in general and he was absolutely true and now I have recommended almost all of my friends to see this movie at least once. The movie I am talking about is titled ‘Pursuit of Happiness’.

The protagonist in the movie whose name is John Walter is played by the famous actor Will Smith. The movie is about his life struggles and how he finally overcomes all the hurdles with his sheer perseverance and tenacity. John Walter is a man in his mid-forties and is jobless. He has a 7-year-old son. He lives in a one-room apartment and daily searches for menial jobs to pay for the rent and put the food on the table for himself and his son.

There are days when he could not get any job and he would come home without any food, and that night he would tell stories to his starving son so that he can go to sleep without eating food. In spite of all these hardships, John is a strong-willed person and always looks for ways to improve his situation. One day he reads in a newspaper that there is an opening in a brokerage firm but in order to apply for that job the candidate must have basic knowledge of financial fundamentals.

John makes up his mind that he would not apply but also get his job. He buys a couple of books on finance and after working hard for the whole day and putting his son to sleep he would go out on the street to read those books. That becomes his routine for the next month and every day he barely sleeps for two hours. But he has been shown to be a person with an indomitable spirit and never say die attitude. Finally, when he thinks that he is ready for the job interview he applies for the job. Luckily he gets a call for the interview the next week. His interview is scheduled at 2 pm and before that, he took a day job since he still needs the money to pay for the apartment rent and food.

On the day of the interview, he took the job of road painting. He had planned to finish his quota of the job by 1 pm and then go back to his apartment to change his clothes and then leave for the interview. But unfortunately on that day one of the crew members called in sick so the contractor told all workers that they have to put in an extra half an hour and those who do would not get paid. This complicated the matters for John who badly needed both money from the job as well as that brokerage job. Being a responsible father he decides to put in the extra half an hour so that he can feed his son in the night and leaves for the interview directly from the job site in his disheveled clothes.

When he reached the office of brokerage firm he saw other candidates sitting there in their corporate suits with neckties and well-polished shoes, while John was standing there in his sneakers and white shirt spoiled with different colors. The interview started and candidates were called in one by one. Some of the candidates looked satisfied while others came out of the interview room with a dejected look that depicted their experience inside the room. When John’s turn came his heart was pounding, he gently opened the door and entered the room.

At first glance, everybody was shocked at the appearance of John. The panel was about to casually reject him when John requested just five minutes to explain his situation. Then he tells about his whole life situation, how hard has he prepared for this interview, and the reason why he came to interview looking like this. After hearing his side of the story the panelists got interested and impressed by his tenacity. They were looking for someone like John who never gives up but still, there was the technical side of the job that had to be catered to so one of the panelists asked John about the world of finance and all the knowledge of fundamentals that were required to be even considered for the job. John answered all the questions with utmost aplomb and every member of the panel was mighty impressed by his sound knowledge of the world of finance.

One of the panelists even complimented him by saying that his knowledge superseded the knowledge of all candidates who appeared before him with flashy degrees but no practical knowledge of either finance or life. John knew his interview went well but also knew that odds were against him because of his age since these brokerage firms prefer to recruit young people who could be molded by the management. He waited for the call back from the firm and for next ten days there was no response and then suddenly he gets a call from the front office of the firm that the partners of the firm want to meet him again but the receptionist did not confirm whether he has got the job or not. This time John appears for the meeting in a proper suit and the moment he enters the office the same panel is sitting there who looked a bit bemused after seeing John in the suit since they still had this image of John in a white shirt full of colors.

The head of the panel started the conversation and told John that under normal circumstances they would not hire someone in his forties and with no prior experience but they were mighty impressed by his knowledge of the financial world and more by his attitude towards life and work. So they offered him the position of junior broker at the firm. For a moment John thought he was dreaming, he simply could not believe his ears and started crying because this the first good news he has heard in his life for a long long time. He immediately accepts the offer and spends the rest of the day with his son to celebrate this achievement.

After watching this movie I sat down with my father and he asked what did I learn from the movie. I told him that I learned two important lessons, one that a person should never stop trying to improve his situation and every day should be spent on becoming a better person than yesterday by learning something new, and the second lesson was that there are no guarantees in life, a good situation can turn into a bad and bad situation can turn into good in a matter of days, so we should be prepared for that and never get disheartened or discouraged no matter what life throws at us.


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