Today, I will talk about something about friendship.

I hold that friendship is a necessity in life. Of course, the majority of people will agree with me.

Friendship is a kind of human relations. It is a human instinct to make friends. It plays an important role in our daily life.

Friendship not only brings us a lot of happiness, but also reduces the sense of loneliness. Because friendship is a basic source of hope in our lives .For example, when we are happy, we can share our feelings with friends; When we are sad, friends are good listeners who can give us suggestions to make us get rid of it, if we are in trouble, we can turn to friends for help, friends will surround us and friends will offer us support and encouragement.

Every one of us needs friends, so that we can depend on each other. People want to do friends favors and hate to break a promise. In contrast with marriage, there are no friendship ceremonies to strengthen the association between two persons. But the supporting and understanding of each other does seem to a powerful bond, which can overcome differences in background, and break down barriers of age, class or race.

In terms of real friendship, true friends share not only joy, but more often they share sorrow. As we get to know people, we take things into account, like age, race, economic conditions, social position, and intelligence. To the true friendship, these factors are not of prime importance. Close friends just have similar ideas and beliefs and have attitudes and interests in common.

Friendship is also a bridge between people to communicate with each others, which let us understand each other better. In the modern age, people attach more importance to relations and connections. Different people will make our minds more advanced and mature.

To me, I will never forget my old friends and keep making new friends. With friendship, life is happy and harmonious. Without friendship, we will be denyed with fortunate and happiness. Therefore, I think friendship is necessity in our daily life.

That’s all. Thank you.

第二篇：friendship英语作文演讲稿

Today,I will talk about the difference of friendship between china and west.

They are differente in four points:

1. Chinese expect friendships to be more lasting.

2. Different foundations for friendships.

3. Westerns expect friends to be independent.

4. Chinese usually expect more from their friends.

For Chinese a true friendship endures throughout life changes. Chinese are friends even if they haven’t spoken for 20 years. If you shared something at one time, then all your life you are friends. This is the best of guanxi(关系), the Wide Web that connects Chinese through time and space. So, we can say Chinese invented the Internet long before Bill Gates was born.

In North America, even the relationship in which people feel close and tell each other personal problems may not survive life changes such as moving to another city, graduation from a university or marriage. If the people do not see each other regularly, the relationship is likely to die

Chinese friends share “ things in common”: a task, a class, the hometown. Friendships are formed by people who work or go to school together. You may or may not like the person, but if he or she can do something for you because of his position or job, you can be friends.

But in North America, business and friendship are kept separate. The friendships are usually tied to specific activities. A person may have work friends and leisure (休闲时) activity friends. Also friends tend to have similar financial circumstances, because friendship in the West is based on equality.

Why? It’s because their friendship is mostly a matter of providing emotional support and spending time together, so they do not feel comfortable in a relationship in which one person is giving more and the other is dependent on what is giving. A westerner will respond to a friend’s trouble by asking “What do you want to do?” The idea is to help the friend to think out the problem and discover the solution he or she really wants and then to support the solution.

Chinese friends give each other more concrete help. A Chinese will use personal connections to help a friend get something hard to obtain. They give each other money and might help each other out financially over a long time.

In the West, you can certainly ask a friend to do something with you, but you recognize

that your friend may say no, if he or she gives you as reason. You would not expect a friend to drop everything to respond to a non-urgent need such as shopping. Nor would you expect a friend to recognize and respond to your wishes without stating them.

A friend in China is someone who offers help without waiting to be asked. There are few limits to what you can expect from a friend. You can feel free to tell your friend what he or she can or should do or help or please you.

Friends is an American sitcom which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses. The friendship between them are strong and touching.

Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they are always there.

That’s all. Thank you.