Let’s talk about friendship. How important is friendship for you?

1) Friendship plays an important role in our life because we all need friends. Friendship is a million little things: talks, common interests, smiles, having fun and sharing sorrows. In my view, friendship is a unique thing that happens between two people. And it’s a great gift. It is necessary to have a person you can rely on. Close friends usually have similar ideas and beliefs. They understand, respect and trust each other. Your best friend helps you when you have problems or troubles.

I have a lot of friends, but my best friend is Helen. She is 15. She is energetic, active and good at sports, especially basketball. She has different interests, one of them is music. She knows everything about modern music groups and singers. Helen has a good character and a good sense of humor. One of her best features is honesty. She never speaks badly of other people. I admire her for that.

I should say that Helen is a tall pretty girl with long dark hair and a pleasant smile. Her favourite clothes are jeans and sweaters.

Helen is very sociable but sometimes impulsive. She can lose self-control when things don’t go well. But this doesn’t spoil our relations. I know I can trust her. To my mind, this is what real friendship means, I am proud of having such a friend. I just hope that our friendship will last forever.

2) As we live in society, we meet a lot of people during our lives. We communicate with all these people, but our attitudes towards each of these people are different. Usually I classify people I know as acquaintances, friends and close friends. I'm going to tell you about the best friends of mine. They are Victor Danilov and Dmitri Petrov.

Victor is a good-natured guy of medium height, strong in body, light-haired with light blue eyes. Usually he is the life and soul of the party. Victor is fond of foreign languages. Not so long ago he decided to study English. He worked on it persistently, and now he speaks English well. Victor also likes music. He is a good singer; he plays mouth organ and dances better than Michael Jackson.

Dmitri is rather slim, not very tall, his hair is brown, and his eyes are grey. Usually he wears T-shirts with emblems of football clubs. He is an enthusiastic football fan. Dmitri is an extremely sociable person. By means of e-mail he corresponds with many people from different countries. They discuss political and economic issues. Dmitri is also interested in philosophy. He often cites Confucius's utterances.

My friends are very interesting to talk to. Both of them possess great charm, they are both very clever and educated guys, they are open-hearted and social, well-mannered and tactful. I respect them for their fairness, strong will, intellect, and modesty. People usually like them. I'm happy to have such friends as Victor and Dmitri.