【热】英语演讲稿
演讲稿是为了在会议或重要活动上表达自己意见、看法或汇报思想工作情况而事先准备好的文稿。现如今，能够利用到演讲稿的场合越来越多，为了让您在写演讲稿时更加简单方便，以下是小编收集整理的英语演讲稿，欢迎大家借鉴与参考，希望对大家有所帮助。
英语演讲稿1
friendship is indispensable to people's life. a man without friends is an angel
without wings, whose life will suffer in the long tolerance of loneliness and
depression. friendship is the mother of our psyche, who'll warm her kid when
hurt occurs. we have much to share with our friends in life, perplexity,
excitement, bitterness etc. alas, it's magnificent to maintain a genuine friendship.
友谊是不可缺少的人们的生活。没有朋友的人没有翅膀的天使,他的生活将会受到在长期的宽容的孤独和抑郁。友谊是我们的母亲心理,谁来温暖自己孩子什么时候伤害的发生。我们有很多一起分享我们的朋友在生活中,困惑,兴奋,苦等。唉,它却是很伟大的.维持一个真正的友谊。
i have many good friends, we study together and growth. in their lives gave
me more or less help, accompany me together through a wonderful time
我有很多好朋友,我们一起学习和成长。在他们的生活中或多或少给我帮助,陪我一起度过美好的时光
in short, when we have established friendship, we ought to cherish and treasure
it by means of words and deeds. only thus, can we develop real friendship and
keep the sacred lamp of friendship burning all our life.
总之,当我们已经确立了友谊,我们应该珍惜和珍惜它通过自己的言行。只有这样,才能发展真正的友谊,让燃烧神圣的友谊之灯照亮我们一生。
英语演讲稿2
接听电话篇
1. abc corporation. may i help you?
abc公司,我能帮你什么吗?
这句话算是制式的讲法.一般接起电话的人通常会先报公司的名字"abc corporation",然后再说, "may i help you?"或是如果要更客气一点的话则可以说"how can i help you?" (我该怎么帮你?),因为这样的问法表示我‘该'怎么帮你,而非我‘需不需要'帮你?但基本上"may i help you?"跟"how can i help you?"都很常见就是了.
不过如果是机器接的电话,则听到的多半是这样, "thanks for calling abc corporation, if you know your party's last name or extention, press 1. if you want to recieve information or publication, press 2. if you want to talk to the operator, press pound sign or remain on the line." (感谢你打电话到abc来,如果你知道你要找的人的姓或是分机号码,请按1,如果是想要本公司的简介或出版品,请按2,如果是要找总机,请按#,或是请别挂断.
2. and you are?
你是?
如果人家打电话来是要找你的上司, "may i talk to your manager?" (我能不能跟你们经理讲话?)这时你总不能糊里糊涂地就把电话拿给经理说,说不定人家是打电话来跟你经理勒索一百万的呢!所以通常我们一定要先确定打电话来的是谁.最客气的问法是, "whom i am speaking with?"或是"whom am i talking to?" (我正在跟谁讲话呢?)但是人家一听是像我这种小毛头打电话找他们经理,他们就会用比较口语的说法, "and you are?" (你是?)如果人家这样问我,我就可以答, "this is benlin."
像是"and you are?"这么口语的英文书上大概学不到,但这却是老美天天在用的句子,只怕你学了之后还不敢用.其实真的不用怕.越简单的句子老美越听得懂.而且事实上"and you are?"这句话还有许多适用的场合,例如在公司的接待处(reception).来访的客人如果说, "i'm looking for mr. wolf." (我要找伍夫先生)接待小姐就可以反问他, "and you are?" (你是?)所以像这种简单又好用的句子大家一定要记起来喔!
3. i'll put her on the phone. just a second.
我会请她听电话,请等一下。
put someone on the phone这个片语就是说请某人听电话.例如你打电话找你女朋友,结果女朋友的同事接了电话,就开始跟你东扯西扯,问你们昨天是不是吵架了啊?什么时候要结婚啦,这时如果你实在不想跟她讲了,就可以说, "could you please just put her on the phone?" (你能不能请她来听电话啊?)反过来如果今天是你接到了电话,结果要找的是别人,你就可以说, "ok. i'll put her on the phone. just a second." (好,我会请她听电话,请稍等一下。）
上面讲的put someone on the phone,指的多半是只有一只电话时,但如果像公司里有许多分机，则用‘转接' transfer或是redirect.会比较恰当。例如同样的情况你可以说，"i'm transferring your call."或是"i'm redirecting your call." (我帮你转接到分机给她。)如果是接线生转接的话，他们有时就只简单地说，"one moment, please."或是， "ok. i'll put you through."
4. would you mind holding for one minute?
你介不介意稍微等一分钟啊?
在美国如果有机会打电话给客户服务(customer service)部门，如果没意外的话都会听到以下的电话录音， "all of our representitives are currently busy serving their customers. your call will be answered in approximate 5 minutes" (我们所有的客服人员都在忙着服务他们的.顾客，请等五分钟后，就会有人接听你的电话),然后十分钟过去了, "please continue to hold, your call is very important to us." (请继续等候,你的来电对我们非常重要)。所以大家要知道，老美基本上对这种无止境的等待是深恶痛绝的，所以要记得,如果人家打电话来，千万不要因为听不懂就说， "hold on"，然后就跑去求救兵，这对打电话来的人是十分不礼貌的。如果万不得已一定要请他稍候，我们要客气一点地说，"would you mind holding for one minute?"所以记得要给对方一个明确的时间，例如one second或是five minites不要让对方无止境地等下去。但是如果一分钟到了你还没忙完，则最好再说一次，"sorry, i am still on the phone. could you hold for another minute?" (对不起，我还在讲电话，能不能再请你稍候一分钟。)
5. he's out for lunch. would you like to try again an hour later?
他出去吃午餐了，你要不要一小时后再打来?
受到中文的影响，许多人要讲某人‘出去'吃午餐了常会说成， "he went out for lunch."其实这个went是多余的，通常老美只讲be out for something就行了。如果要再简化一点，单说, "he is on lunch."或是"he is on (lunch) break." (他正在休息时间。)这样子也可以。
如果别人要找的人不在，通常我们有二种选择，第一种是请别人晚点再打来，除了像例句用try again/ call again之外，我们也可以用call back/ try back这样的讲法。例如你可以建议别人，"why don't you call back in 30 minutes?" (你何不30分钟后再打来呢?)第二种选择就是请对方留言，客气一点的讲法是，"may i take your message?"或是"would you like to leave a message?" (你想留言吗?)
arriving at a new job新人报到篇
key terms
1. get in——to arrive到达
2. commute——a regular journey to and from your place of work上下班
3. on board——as part of the team or organization加入
4. nerve-wracking——to make someone feel nervous or anxious令人不安的
5. small talk——light, informal conversation on non-controversial topics (people make small talk in order to be polite in social situations)闲聊
6. hit the ground running——to start a new endeavor at full speed, without wasting time立即展开行动
7. brief——to give essential information to someone简短说明
katharine arrives at her new office and introduces herself to her colleagues.
receptionist: hi there, may i help you?
katharine: yes, hi. i’m katharine brown, the new research assistant. i was told to ask for jacob smith when i got in.
receptionist: ah, of course. i’m barbara. it’s nice to meet you. jacob’s not available just yet, but he asked me to hand you over to ann while you wait for him. she’s in the conference room around the corner.
katharine: ok, thank you.
she walks to the conference room.
katharine: hi, i’m katharine. are you ann?
ann: yes, nice to meet you.
katharine: pleasure to meet you.
ann: did you have any trouble getting here?
katharine: oh, no; actually, it’s a very easy commute.
sample sentences
a. introducing yourself
1. james brady, nice to meet you.
2. i’m sara cooper. it’s a pleasure to meet you.
3. i’m your newest analyst, brian sandhurst.
4. my name’s leslie cooper; i believe i’m supposed to be meeting with aaron cantor to get started.
b. making small talk
5. welcome to the of?ce! we’re glad to have you on board.
6. don’t worry, the ?rst day is always a little nerve-wracking.
7. the weather looked beautiful on my way in. is it still nice out?
8. is this your ? rst time in our of?ce?
c. talking about yourself
9. i’m from seoul originally, but i’ve been living in the usa for the last four years.
10. i just graduated from business school and i’m really excited to be able to put my skills to work.
11. i’ve been working in sales for a number of years.
d. introducing someone to his or her work
12. we’re hoping you can hit the ground running, as we’ve got a lot to do here.
13. your supervisor will brief you on our current status.
14. for now, we would like you to focus on learning our customer service policies.
英语演讲稿3
All of you, and judge teachers and classmates: good morning, I am very glad to attend the speech contest, today I'm going to give you a speech topic is "how to learn English well"...
English is important in the modern world. It is spoken all over the world. But a few students don’t learn English well. So they want to drop English. I suggest that you shouldn’t give up English, because English is used in many countries as the first or second language. Most business letters are written in English. It is helpful for you to work in the future. If you don’t know English, you will fall behind others in future.
How can you learn English well? First, you should persevere. It’s true that English is sometimes really very difficult for us. But if you have a good method of learning, I think you will be good at it. Both English listening and speaking are the most difficult for almost every beginner. Sometimes, it seems impossible to learn. But I think if you do a lot of practice, you will make progress, you should speak more and listen more often. You’d better speak English with your classmates as often as possible not only in class but also out of class. I advise you to buy a radio, so you can listen to some English programmes over the radio. Then you will travel in the world of you do that, you’ll be able to learn English well easily, and you’ll like English very much.
I hope all of you will become good at English step by step.
And you can study English in some advises:
1. Listen to BBC news persistently to improve your English hearing.
2. Read more and more English books, especially those written by English native speakers to expand your vocabulary as well as reading capability.
3. Try to speak in English when it's need to get rid of shyness and your spoken English will improve greatly.
4. Of course, to chat with native speakers, if possible, is a good method for learning English. Or you may chat with them on-line since you've time to log onto the Internet.
5. To watch English movies or TV plays is another option for learning English.
英语演讲稿4
Three mirrors reflect the way I learn English
After I came back from the “21st century-Ericsson cup”7th national English Speaking competition with the award of the “Most Promising Speaker”, people kept asking me the same question over and over again. “How did you learn English, especially as a Non-English major?” Actually I believe that a hundred people would have a hundred of ways to learn English well. However, I would like to share my personal experience of English learning with those who have the enthusiasm for improve their English. Since I have set up three mirrors in my prepared speech in hoping that they would guide our young generation on the way to globalization, I would like to maintain three mirrors here to reflect how I learned English.
The first mirror, I assume, should reflect a steady foundation. This involves my first few years of English learning, which I consider as the key factor of all my achievements in the years to follow. At that time I entered the middle school attached to Xi’an Jiaoton University, I could only say my ABCs while others in my class could at least communicate in simple English. All the tales about the frightfulness of learning English then popped up in my mind and made me feel scared. Fortunately my first English teacher was very experienced in enlightening her students on English learning. She was a kind woman with a charming smile. But her homework assignments were not easy task: They required us to read after the tape for 20 times and recite the whole text. So it was quite natural that most of my classmates only recited the short essay within a short time and then went to play. But my fear of not being able to say a single word, made me sit down and immerse myself in what the teacher had asked me to do.
Before every English class we would have an on duty report to let the students say something according to what they had learned .My first presentation in class was to recite a dialogue. But to my great surprise, my teacher praised me for my pronunciation. I tittered because I had imitated the readers in the tape for at least 20 times until finally I couldn’t find any differences between our pronunciations. And I did not realize that this little prize given by my teacher began to influence my English learning magically.
I believe the first three years of English learning guaranteed the possibility of my further achievements because by means of imitation I built a foundation of good pronunciation and by means of reciting I restored the basic element of English language. On the whole, I would like to show my sincere thanks to my first English teachers. Yu Zhiling, who is now still caring for my growth.
The second mirror I would like to mention here reflects an effective way of English learning. I still stick to my point of view that different people have different techniques to learn English well. But there are some methods that seem to be obviously ineffective.
Let’s first have a look at the four important skills for students to master: reading, writing, listening and speaking. I have placed them in order of difficulty.
Reading is the easiest skill. It is also the most widely found English language skill amongst Chinese student, Writing is a more active skill than reading. However it is still a little easier than speaking, as there is plenty of time to choose the right words look in the dictionary for help, and make corrections. Listening is the third most important language skill to learn. It is far more difficult to listen and understand spoken English than to read English in a book or in a letter. Speaking English may be the most difficult of the four language skills. It is an active skill, and requires the student to put words together into sentences without much time to prepare, and with no time for correction, yet it is the most exciting skill to have, as it opens up wonderful channels of communication with people of others cultures and countries. But this is just what we lack.
More often than not I found some of the students who get high marks in their exams showed an inability to communicate with people in English. And this enabled me to understand deeper what my first English teacher has always emphasized: listening and speaking keeping ahead; reading and writing following up. I believe this is the rule of learning a language because we learn a certain language to communicate. As we conquered the most difficult parts: listening and speaking, we would easily master the writing and reading skills.
Then how can we make it? I have seen lots of diligent students in the early morning reading aloud their English texts without paying any attention to their nearly unacceptable pronunciation. I feel sorry for those students because their hard work deserves a much better English level if they improve their method of learning.
I found that my way of learning English that I formed from middle school still works today. By listening to tapes and imitating the speakers one can improve his pronunciation within a short time. By reciting classic essays one can enrich their language as well as enlarge their vocabulary. As a non-English major, I like to set aside a certain period of time for English learning everyday, usually an hour or at least half an hour. I utilize this precious time by listening to tapes and imitating their content and then reciting the short passages I like. To be frank, “Crazy English” has always been my favorite. This is definitely not intended to flatter. Instead of dividing my attention between too many materials, I’d rather concentrate on one particular resource at a time such as CE, not only because of its abundant content and native English, but also because of the benefits it has brought to me through intensive reading, listening and reciting, I believe that studying English by using these intensive methods will help you to get twice the result with half the effort.
Last but not least, the third mirror reflects the interest in English learning. Confucius once said, “Knowing it is not as delighting in it.” Nowhere is this more true than on the matter of English learning. My experience in English learning initiated quite passively, but before long my interest in it began to inspire me to continue the process. To testify my English skills and to stir up even greater enthusiasm, I used to participate in various kinds of competitions. When I was preparing for a nation-wide English competition in high school, I got to know the “21st Century Cup” English speaking competition for the first time as I used their scripts as my preparing materials. I envied those contestants in the “21st Century Cup” very much. Their English skills and their quick response made me feel swooning. Although I did not get a good rank in the nation wide competition for high school students, I had begun my wildest dream of participating in the 21st Century Cup. Even after I became an engineering student I still held onto my dream, that it would come true some day. Because I can always find something new to challenge me, and set up those challenges as my goals to achieve, I never find English learning a dull job. I believe I will forever cherish the glorious moment when I was on the stage of the “21st Century-Ericsson Cup” 7th national English speaking competition, and my wonderful memories there without any doubt will add passion to my English learning in the days to come.
Since the theme of this year’s competition was “globalization”, we have enjoyed various visions from contestants on thinking of what we young people should do to meet the challenges and the opportunities posed by globalization. But there’s one thing for sure: good English and communication skills are the gateway to the world arena. I hope some of man and woman in China who have conquered English to hold hands together to build up the bridge between China and the rest of the world with the world’s most widely used language!
英语演讲稿5
Good afternoon, everyone! The topic of my speech today is “Being a Good Listener”. Good listening can always show respect, promote understanding, and improve interpersonal relationship. Many people suggest that parents should listen more to their children, so they will understand them better, and find it easy to narrow the generation gap; teachers should listen more to their students, then they can meet their needs better, and place themselves in a good relationship with their students; students should listen more to their classmates, thus they will help and learn from each other, and a friendship is likely to be formed. What I want to stress is that each of us should listen more to others. Show your respect and never stop others till they finish their talk; show you are interested by a supportive silence or a knowing smile; be open-minded to different opinions even though you don’t like them. In a word, good listening can really enable us to get closer to each other. Thank you for your listening!
英语演讲稿6
Today a boy named xx is standing here and talking about the near future of the people believe that we are living on a beautiful and vital palent.
Because we can find everything we need from everywhere on th some of us who study the earth are very surprised that th earth is going to die much sooner than means th earth will be like the Mars in a few then most animals will be exterminated ,and the organism called human may not be seen on the earth any that a lie or a joke?
No,it's serious and true .A river can be polluted by only a little trash and so little trash can be made by hundreds of families a year. But no country even America can clean the rivers as soon as we pollute 'm afriad we do something wrong over and over again. So we have less and less time to redress the balance of , it's not too late now. People have many things to do to stop the disaster. For example having a low-carbon lifestyle is one of the best ideas.
More and more young people like to live a low-carbon life. So you see ,life with low-carbon can be fact when we protect the earth , we are protecting for listening to me.
英语演讲稿7
i'd like to share with you a discovery that i made a few months ago while writing an article for italian wired. i always keep my thesaurus handy whenever i'm writing anything, but i'd already finished editing the piece, and i realized that i had never once in my life looked up the word "disabled" to see what i'd find.
let me read you the entry. "disabled, adjective: crippled, helpless, useless, wrecked, stalled, maimed, wounded, mangled, lame, mutilated, run-down, worn-out, weakened, impotent, castrated, paralyzed, handicapped, senile, decrepit, laid-up, done-up, done-for, done-in cracked-up, counted-out; see also hurt, useless and weak. antonyms, healthy, strong, capable." i was reading this list out loud to a friend and at first was laughing, it was so ludicrous, but i'd just gotten past "mangled," and my voice broke, and i had to stop and collect myself from the emotional shock and impact that the assault from these words unleashed.
you know, of course, this is my raggedy old thesaurus so i'm thinking this must be an ancient print date, right? but, in fact, the print date was the early 1980s, when i would have been starting primary school and forming an understanding of myself outside the family unit and as related to the other kids and the world around me. and, needless to say, thank god i wasn't using a thesaurus back then. i mean, from this entry, it would seem that i was born into a world that perceived someone like me to have nothing positive whatsoever going for them, when in fact, today i'm celebrated for the opportunities and adventures my life has procured.
so, i immediately went to look up the online edition, epecting to find a revision worth noting. here's the updated version of this entry. unfortunately, it's not much better. i find the last two words under "near antonyms," particularly unsettling: "whole" and "wholesome."
so, it's not just about the words. it's what we believe about people when we name them with these words. it's about the values behind the words, and how we construct those values. our language affects our thinking and how we view the world and how we view other people. in fact, many ancient societies, including the greeks and the romans, believed that to utter a curse verbally was so powerful, because to say the thing out loud brought it into eistence. so, what reality do we want to call into eistence: a person who is limited, or a person who's empowered? by casually doing something as simple as naming a person, a child, we might be putting lids and casting shadows on their power. wouldn't we want to open doors for them instead?
one such person who opened doors for me was my childhood doctor at the a.i. dupont institute in wilmington, delaware. his name was dr. pizzutillo, an italian american, whose name, apparently, was too difficult for most americans to pronounce, so he went by dr. p. and dr. p always wore really colorful bow ties and had the very perfect disposition to work with children.
i loved almost everything about my time spent at this hospital, with the eception of my physical therapy sessions. i had to do what seemed like innumerable repetitions of eercises with these thick, elastic bands -- different colors, you know -- to help build up my leg muscles, and i hated these bands more than anything -- i hated them, had names for them. i hated them. and, you know, i was already bargaining, as a five year-old child, with dr. p to try to get out of doing these eercises, unsuccessfully, of course. and, one day, he came in to my session -- ehaustive and unforgiving, these sessions -- and he said to me, "wow. aimee, you are such a strong and powerful little girl, i think you're going to break one of those bands. when you do break it, i'm going to give you a hundred bucks."
now, of course, this was a simple ploy on dr. p's part to get me to do the eercises i didn't want to do before the prospect of being the richest five-year-old in the second floor ward, but what he effectively did for me was reshape an awful daily occurrence into a new and promising eperience for me. and i have to wonder today to what etent his vision and his declaration of me as a strong and powerful little girl shaped my own view of myself as an inherently strong, powerful and athletic person well into the future.
this is an eample of how adults in positions of power can ignite the power of a child. but, in the previous instances of those thesaurus entries, our language isn't allowing us to evolve into the reality that we would all want, the possibility of an individual to see themselves as capable. our language hasn't caught up with the changes in our society, many of which have been brought about by technology. certainly, from a medical standpoint, my legs, laser surgery for vision impairment, titanium knees and hip replacements for aging bodies that are allowing people to more fully engage with their abilities, and move beyond the limits that nature has imposed on them -- not to mention social networking platforms allow people to self-identify, to claim their own descriptions of themselves, so they can go align with global groups of their own choosing. so, perhaps technology is revealing more clearly to us now what has always been a truth: that everyone has something rare and powerful to offer our society, and that the human ability to adapt is our greatest asset.
the human ability to adapt, it's an interesting thing, because people have continually wanted to talk to me about overcoming adversity, and i'm going to make an admission: this phrase never sat right with me, and i always felt uneasy trying to answer people's questions about it, and i think i'm starting to figure out why. implicit in this phrase of "overcoming adversity" is the idea that success, or happiness, is about emerging on the other side of a challenging eperience unscathed or unmarked by the eperience, as if my successes in life have come about from an ability to sidestep or circumnavigate the presumed pitfalls of a life with prosthetics, or what other people perceive as my disability. but, in fact, we are changed. we are marked, of course, by a challenge, whether physically, emotionally or both. and i'm going to suggest that this is a good thing. adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. it's part of our life. and i tend to think of it like my shadow. sometimes i see a lot of it, sometimes there's very little, but it's always with me. and, certainly, i'm not trying to diminish the impact, the weight, of a person's struggle.
there is adversity and challenge in life, and it's all very real and relative to every single person, but the question isn't whether or not you're going to meet adversity, but how you're going to meet it. so, our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity, but preparing them to meet it well. and we do a disservice to our kids when we make them feel that they're not equipped to adapt. there's an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not i'm disabled. and, truthfully, the only real and consistent disability i've had to confront is the world ever thinking that i could be described by those definitions.
in our desire to protect those we care about by giving them the cold, hard truth about their medical prognosis, or, indeed, a prognosis on the epected quality of their life, we have to make sure that we don't put the first brick in a wall that will actually disable someone. perhaps the eisting model of only looking at what is broken in you and how do we fi it, serves to be more disabling to the individual than the pathology itself.
by not treating the wholeness of a person, by not acknowledging their potency, we are creating another ill on top of whatever natural struggle they might have. we are effectively grading someone's worth to our community. so we need to see through the pathology and into the range of human capability. and, most importantly, there's a partnership between those perceived deficiencies and our greatest creative ability. so it's not about devaluing, or negating, these more trying times as something we want to avoid or sweep under the rug, but instead to find those opportunities wrapped in the adversity. so maybe the idea i want to put out there is not so much overcoming adversity as it is opening ourselves up to it, embracing it, grappling with it, to use a wrestling term, maybe even dancing with it. and, perhaps, if we see adversity as natural, consistent and useful, we're less burdened by the presence of it.
this year we celebrate the 200th birthday of charles darwin, and it was 150 years ago, when writing about evolution, that darwin illustrated, i think, a truth about the human character. to paraphrase: it's not the strongest of the species that survives, nor is it the most intelligent that survives; it is the one that is most adaptable to change. conflict is the genesis of creation. from darwin's work, amongst others, we can recognize that the human ability to survive and flourish is driven by the struggle of the human spirit through conflict into transformation. so, again, transformation, adaptation, is our greatest human skill. and, perhaps, until we're tested, we don't know what we're made of. maybe that's what adversity gives us: a sense of self, a sense of our own power. so, we can give ourselves a gift. we can re-imagine adversity as something more than just tough times. maybe we can see it as change. adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.
i think the greatest adversity that we've created for ourselves is this idea of normalcy. now, who's normal? there's no normal. there's common, there's typical. there's no normal, and would you want to meet that poor, beige person if they eisted? (laughter) i don't think so. if we can change this paradigm from one of achieving normalcy to one of possibility or potency, to be even a little bit more dangerous -- we can release the power of so many more children, and invite them to engage their rare and valuable abilities with the community.
anthropologists tell us that the one thing we as humans have always required of our community members is to be of use, to be able to contribute. there's evidence that neanderthals, 60,000 years ago, carried their elderly and those with serious physical injury, and perhaps it's because the life eperience of survival of these people proved of value to the community. they didn't view these people as broken and useless; they were seen as rare and valuable.
a few years ago, i was in a food market in the town where i grew up in that red zone in northeastern pennsylvania, and i was standing over a bushel of tomatoes. it was summertime: i had shorts on. i hear this guy, his voice behind me say, "well, if it isn't aimee mullins." and i turn around, and it's this older man. i have no idea who he is.
and i said, "i'm sorry, sir, have we met? i don't remember meeting you."
he said, "well, you wouldn't remember meeting me. i mean, when we met i was delivering you from your mother's womb." (laughter) oh, that guy. and, but of course, actually, it did click.
this man was dr. kean, a man that i had only known about through my mother's stories of that day, because, of course, typical fashion, i arrived late for my birthday by two weeks. and so my mother's prenatal physician had gone on vacation, so the man who delivered me was a complete stranger to my parents. and, because i was born without the fibula bones, and had feet turned in, and a few toes in this foot and a few toes in that, he had to be the bearer -- this stranger had to be the bearer of bad news.
he said to me, "i had to give this prognosis to your parents that you would never walk, and you would never have the kind of mobility that other kids have or any kind of life of independence, and you've been making liar out of me ever since." (laughter) (applause)
the etraordinary thing is that he said he had saved newspaper clippings throughout my whole childhood, whether winning a second grade spelling bee, marching with the girl scouts, you know, the halloween parade, winning my college scholarship, or any of my sports victories, and he was using it, and integrating it into teaching resident students, med students from hahnemann medical school and hershey medical school. and he called this part of the course the factor, the potential of the human will. no prognosis can account for how powerful this could be as a determinant in the quality of someone's life. and dr. kean went on to tell me, he said, "in my eperience, unless repeatedly told otherwise, and even if given a modicum of support, if left to their own devices, a child will achieve."
see, dr. kean made that shift in thinking. he understood that there's a difference between the medical condition and what someone might do with it. and there's been a shift in my thinking over time, in that, if you had asked me at 15 years old, if i would have traded prosthetics for flesh-and-bone legs, i wouldn't have hesitated for a second. i aspired to that kind of normalcy back then. but if you ask me today, i'm not so sure. and it's because of the eperiences i've had with them, not in spite of the eperiences i've had with them. and perhaps this shift in me has happened because i've been eposed to more people who have opened doors for me than those who have put lids and cast shadows on me.
see, all you really need is one person to show you the epiphany of your own power, and you're off. if you can hand somebody the key to their own power -- the human spirit is so receptive -- if you can do that and open a door for someone at a crucial moment, you are educating them in the best sense. you're teaching them to open doors for themselves. in fact, the eact meaning of the word "educate" comes from the root word "educe." it means "to bring forth what is within, to bring out potential." so again, which potential do we want to bring out?
there was a case study done in 1960s britain, when they were moving from grammar schools to comprehensive schools. it's called the streaming trials. we call it "tracking" here in the states. it's separating students from a, b, c, d and so on. and the "a students" get the tougher curriculum, the best teachers, etc. well, they took, over a three-month period, d-level students, gave them a's, told them they were "a's," told them they were bright, and at the end of this three-month period, they were performing at a-level.
and, of course, the heartbreaking, flip side of this study, is that they took the "a students" and told them they were "d's." and that's what happened at the end of that three-month period. those who were still around in school, besides the people who had dropped out. a crucial part of this case study was that the teachers were duped too. the teachers didn't know a switch had been made. they were simply told, "these are the 'a-students,' these are the 'd-students.'" and that's how they went about teaching them and treating them.
so, i think that the only true disability is a crushed spirit, a spirit that's been crushed doesn't have hope, it doesn't see beauty, it no longer has our natural, childlike curiosity and our innate ability to imagine. if instead, we can bolster a human spirit to keep hope, to see beauty in themselves and others, to be curious and imaginative, then we are truly using our power well. when a spirit has those qualities, we are able to create new realities and new ways of being.
i'd like to leave you with a poem by a fourteenth-century persian poet named hafiz that my friend, jacques dembois told me about, and the poem is called "the god who only knows four words": "every child has known god, not the god of names, not the god of don'ts, but the god who only knows four words and keeps repeating them, saying, 'come dance with me. come, dance with me. come, dance with me.'"
thank you. (applause)
英语演讲稿8
Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen:
I’d like to start with a group of pictures.
"Modern and advanced"? This society forgets, and ignores the other two thirds of human beings. It's far from the ideal! We call ideal as a utopian, a place where reality does not exist. A few people still look forward to the ideals. We make fun of them, considering they are naive. Will we still be content to live in such a society, if misfortune drops to us? No! Of cause not!
When we feel the warmth of the sun, these people, endure great sorrows and pains. Can we imagine that? They are our brother and sisters!
Facing them, will we still complain about our own misfortune?
Facing them, will we still have the mood shouting for our own freedom?
Facing them, will we still want to have more and more unnecessary stuff?
They are unable to meet their needs, even the basic needs of survival! Everyone, as a member of
humanity, shouldn't feel ashamed? Our luxury deprived their lives, our indifference violated our soul, and our barbarity destroyed human civilization!
What's the ideal society? It's a society no one worries about their living, a society no one is refused from education, a society everyone can pursue his/her own happiness! The ideal society is filled with love, joy and kindness. In that society, we can touch the other's hearts, we can share our dreams and most important, we can just be the true men!
Let's break the ethnic divide, bridge the gap between rich and poor, hand in hand, to build a Great wall, protecting us from evil; to construct a steady bridge, connecting reality to the ideal society! Let's pursue for that, that's the only way to the bright future!
They are watching us!
Thank you!
英语演讲稿9
today i will read a love letter . it's written to a boy .
there's so much i want to say to you , but i'm not sure where i should begin . may be you don't remember me , no matter . i could say all those things and all would be true ,but as i reread them , holding your hand and watching for your elusive smile .
do you know there is someone thinking of you and caring you all the time ? your smiling eyes are just like the sparking stars hanging on the curtain of my heart .
meeting you was fate , and falling in love with you was out of my control .you are everything to me , and i was so blessed when god sent you here for me .
coffee is lonely without cups , i am lonely without you . every day without you is like a book without pages . i'll think of you every step of the way .
it's you that led me out of the loneliness when i was lost in my mind . if we can only encounter each other rather than stay with each other , when i wish we had never encountered . love is the greatest refreshment in life . you make my heart smile .
i hope everyone can understand this love letter . because when love is not madness , it is not love .
finally , this love letter , i want to give present a boy , tell him , i like him .
thank you .
今天，我将要念一封写给一位男生的情书。
有好多事想告诉你，不过不确定应该从哪里开始。也许你不记得我，不过没有关系。这些都是我想说的话，而且都是认真的，并且等着你在不经意间对我微笑。
你知道么，有个人时时想念你，惦念你?你含笑的眼睛，像星光闪闪，缀在我的心幕，夜夜闪亮。
遇见你是命运的安排，而爱上你是我的情不自禁。你是我的`一切，我是如此幸运，上帝让你来到我的身边。
没有杯子，咖啡是寂寞的，没有你，我是孤独的。没有你的日子，就像一本没有书页的书。我会想你，在漫漫长路的每一步。
你带我走出寂寞。如果我们只是遇见，不能停留，那么不如不见。爱情是生活的提神剂。我的心因你而笑。
我希望每个人都能理解这封情书，因为如果爱不疯狂，那就不是爱了。
最后，这封情书，我想送给在座的一位男生，告诉他，我喜欢他。
谢谢。
英语演讲稿10
my name is Sam , for those of you in the assembly that don’t know me, i am in year ………. ( may also say if they are representing the src or other group in the school etc).
i am not sure how many of you realise that today marks a very important worldwide celebration for children. today is universal children’s day. so what, you may say, what does this mean to me, and why should i even bother to listen?
well the answer is very simple, as students in china we live a life of privilege and relative safety compared to children and young people in many other parts of the world. we are very lucky. but this shouldn’t mean that we don’t care about other children and communities around the world less fortunate than ourselves.
i think some classes have been learning about how students just like us in other parts of the world have to struggle to survive. some children cant afford the things we take for granted like food, clothing, safe water and sanitation and having the opportunity to go to school.
today is a day set aside to promote worldwide unity between children and to increase the awareness by all people of the plight of vulnerable children in some parts of the world.
in nsw, we are calling our contribution to universal children's day, unicef day for change. as part of this day, our school is doing..(brief description of activity).
on behalf of the students and staff who have put time into planning this activity, i would like to thank you in advance for your support.
thank you
英语演讲稿11
the present society is a world of dazzling money and dwindling human feeling contacts. most people hold a snobbish attitude. they only make friends with people of wealth and of high social status. just as zhen shiyen said in his expounding of the song “all good things must end” in a dream of the red mansions “while men with gold and silver by the chest, turn beggars scorned by all and dispossessed”.frankly speaking, however, if we regard money the first thing in whichever one of the three kinds of loves, it will depreciate and even become worthless.
love can not pretend, nor can it tolerate too much selfish motives. it is reported that an old man in jiangsu province left his million yuan heritage to his young housekeeper instead of his own children, because his own children didn't take care of him while the young housekeeper accompanied him through his last lonely and helpless years.
love is easily perceivable and perceptible. flattery words may be cheatable, but true love and false feelings can easily be distinguished. if the people you love only know how to spend your money, you should be careful of them. everyone can help you spend your money if you give them the chance. never turn your love into the slave of money.
love should be selfless, and feelings should be sincere. we shouldn't judge our feelings according to the distance of the relationship. everyone treasures love and nobody can fool himself or the others. a chinese saying goes: real heroes yearn even more for true love, and great men cherish tender love for their children.
英语演讲稿12
Good afternoon everybody.
I’m Alison from GAMI. It’s my honour to standhere to share my understanding of innovation.
About innovation，what comes to your mind firstly ? As for me, mostinnovation shines our lives in the long process of humanhistory. Just imagineten million years ago, what are our ancestors’ lifestyles? They must huntanimals or pick the roots and leaves for food laboriously with simple tools ;They have to roar with each other to communicate in a long distance; Theirtransportation basically rely on walking. In short, their lives are hard,simple, even a little boring. However, taking a look at our lives today! We canorder KFC at home , our food is more easily and diversifiedly to be acquired; wecan get in touch with our friends anywhere at anytime by telephone , E-mailandWeChat! Our vehicles include buses ,cars, planes and so on, it becames soeasy to reach the destination. So how did these happen? Those changes are allowing to the countless innovation. It makes our lives become more convenient,comfortable and colorful.
But in today’s modern life , don’t we need to innovate? No no, let’s have alook at the problems we are facing: air pollution, traffic jam, waste ofresources. Those are related to our survival. Maybe we can make a huge machineto filter the polluted , or invent a car which not only can drive along theroad, but also can fly in the sky; or one day we synthesis super energymaterials, we would never relay on traditional resources any more. Are thoseideas too exaggerated? Who knows? Just as hundreds years ago, nobody can imaginewe can fly by plane. Time will tell you the truth .As Edward, a famouspsychologists, said: Without innovation, there would be no progress, and wewould be forever repeating the same patterns. Therefore, innovation is aneternal topic for people, countries and societies! That’s all, thank u !
英语演讲稿13
Good morning everyone,today is my turn to the speech.
First of all, i would like to say that a quick test, we hope that the good preparation, good test for all, is the only way home for a good year. my english is not high, i wish i could within the next two years to learn english well. i hope you will be able to learn english after graduation to have a good future.
Finally, i wish the students and teachers a happy new year, further study and work. well! i finished the speech. thank you for listening.
英语演讲稿14
Whatever the past, but no matter how the future will be, we should have no reason to let oneself become a commonplaces doing nothing. Every failure in revealing, we actually not far from success, our dream will not take long to deliver period also, the key is whether we decided to make a people fly higher. Every consciousness awakening, in to enrich our spiritual world, we should learnfrom infinite strength, to break through the traditional set of deeply ashamed to transcend self, to become a strive to rise in the often hurt often war.
May have been disappointed, but you should go to believe that "life is full of hope, a former routing I create".
Perhaps once frustrated, but should go to adhere to the "package to shame who shame is a man...... return unknown".
Life may have in debt to us, but you should go to stick to "the dreams of the beautiful" of tomorrow.
New era of rapidly changing, don't be in pain cannot extricate oneself, with its self-imposed torture and towards perdition, less strenuous work, actively strive for and pursue their desire for things. At any time, all want to stick to the dream, adhere to the principle, believe yourself, only in this way can let oneself fly higher. "Children in sichuan yue: the dead Ruth's husband! Working round." We will try to spend more time trying to, rather than the destruction of the past, not to mention to lazy to look for any excuse yourself, because "an inch of time an inch of gold, an inch of gold will not buy inch of time", what we want to establish yourself to become a man, at the same time establish life ideal.
One thing we need to know, can only be proud winner says, "the sky leave no trace, but I am glad I have had my flight." So, as we failed, or is working but not successful people, we want to achieve your dream, you must know how I should use gesture to fly.
英语演讲稿15
As a sophomore in college,you were lucky enough to win one million in a lottery recently ,then how will you spend the money.
Ladies and gentlemen: It is my pleasure to speak here about the money I earned in my dreams many times. Supposed I had a lot of money,perhaps,earned from the lottery,I would do a lot of things which had appeared in my dreams many times.
But,first of all,I would like to buy a house or an apartment of my own,only because the price of housing in China nowadays is going higher and higher.And more and more people begin to realize the importance of owning a house or an apartment.Therefore,the housing market is strongly stimulated by the people who are eager to purchase the houses or apartments in big cities,and even some of them have bought the houses by loan from the bank.
What I want to say is that ,even you cannot get married with you girl-friend without a house or an apartment of your own. Perhaps,it is a tragedy for most of the young people,especially the college graduates who have nothing at present.That is why I want to buy a house or an apartment with the money.
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