Today, my presentation is about whether it’s necessary for good friendships to have common interests in between. To begin with, how sharing your interests or having common interests, um, it would make a friendship stronger? Well, Most friendships are built on common interests. Like, you have this friend because you both enjoy watching matches. Uh, football, uh, matches, or we have this friend because you both enjoy, enjoying making food together and so on. So sharing the interest enhances the friendship stronger as you have, uh, more things common and you would feel this, that this person or this friend is more close to you, and and you really have things more things in common. Like, he’s a person, uh, like you, Moving on to the next point, which is why would having different interests might be good for a friendship? As having different interests and some common would be really beneficial for the friendship. As you’re both get to know different interests of each other, and you’ll get introduced to some different interests you would didn’t really know that you would be interested in. And you’re you’re you’ll get to have new interests and to know some new ones. Uh, last but not least, I’m going, uh, last but not least, which is the effect of age on the, um, on the friendship. As age plays a really important role on uh, disemining the friendship will be really successful 1 or not. As, uh, I’ve pre mentioned that uh, it’s really as it’s really hard to make a sixty years old adult. To have really same interests as a five year old child. So there wouldn’t really, really be a friendship Having said that, though, if they really have some interest in common, no problem having a friendship. So, uh, all in all, I think that it’s really a necessary reference to share some interests.
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Today, my presentation is about whether it's necessary for good friends to share the same interests. To begin with, how sharing interests or having common interests would make a friendship stronger. Most friendships are built on common interests. For example, you may have a friend because you both enjoy watching football matches or because you both like cooking together. Sharing interests enhances the friendship by creating more things in common, making you feel closer to that friend. Moving on to the next point, why having different interests might be good for a friendship. Having different interests alongside some common ones can be beneficial for a friendship. It allows you to learn about each other's diverse interests and discover new things you might be interested in. Lastly, the impact of age on a friendship. Age plays a significant role in determining the success of a friendship. It can be challenging for a sixty-year-old adult to share the same interests as a five-year-old child. However, if there are some common interests, age differences may not hinder the friendship. In conclusion, it is important for friends to share some interests.
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