有关learning English的speech演讲稿

Mere exposure to English will not enable you to speak English If you want to drive you have to get in the car and drive if you want to dance you have to turn on the music and dance if you want to swim you have to jump in the water and swim In fact swimming is the perfect comparison to learning English You can t learn to swim by sitting in a room and reading books about swimming skills In order to be a swimmer you ve got to conquer you fear you ve got to survive and suck in water yell for help you ve got to lose face many times before you can make it But to be a good swimmer you ve got to practice again and again To be a great swimmer you have to practice for years until you can harmonize every part of your body and mind Let s do it Let s yell together Speaking English is a piece of cake Make your Chinese muscle international 仅仅浸泡在英语书堆里是不能帮你说英语的 如果你想学会开车 你就要钻进车里 开起来 如果 你想学跳舞 你就要打开音乐 跳起来 如果你想游泳 你就要跳进水里 游起来 事实上 把学 英语比作游泳是最恰当不过了 光是坐在家里 阅读一些有关游泳技巧的书 这样是学不会游泳的 为了学会游泳 你必须战胜恐惧 你必须求生存 呛水 喊救命 丢无数次的脸 这样才能学会游 但是 要想游得好 你必须不断地训练 如果要成为出色的游泳能手 你必须练上好几年 直到你 大脑和身体的各部分变得非常和谐 让我们立即行动 让我们一起大喊 说英语是小菜一碟 把你的中国肌肉变成美国肌肉 Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen thank you for your patience Today I would like to begin with my personal experience Before getting enrolled in college I had been bombarded with suggestions Take courses of different subjects Broaden your horizon my high school teacher advised Dive into campus activities Have fun a friend said She was well seasoned in Student Union affairs Work hard Get as many A s as possible Make your transcript look good my cousin offered By the way she was a senior busy hunting for a job As for my mom she simply said Take care Don t be too hard on yourself Composed but hopeful I eagerly set out for an exciting life at college Yet very soon as I pondered these golden rules I was overwhelmed and bewildered Such advice all made perfect sense Yet I couldn t figure out what should top my priority list My first semester at college was stimulating in a somewhat anarchic way I rushed from library to club from classroom to tennis court enjoying as it were the freshness of being a freshman at the expense of my sleep Little by little however I became overtaxed and eventually fell victim to the Yu Men syndrome Yu Men being stressful misery Literally I was overwrought from the pressures of work and life at college I wanted to experience and excel I wanted everything Emotionally I was like an insatiable kid whose hand had got stuck in the candy jar with way too many sweets Luckily I didn t suffer for too long from my get everything malaise Recently Mr Tom Freston president of the media company MTV came to my school His talk inspired me He proudly told us that the average age of his employees is only 28 What s the secret behind the success of his young team Sagacity he told us In other words being conscious of what one is doing and what one is able to do Exactly As a freshman about to be a sophomore I realize now that our time and stamina don t allow us to extend ourselves in all directions So the moral responsibility of college education is to teach students the art of making important choices No matter how hard the growing pains are mastering this art is at the heart of every undergraduate s success whether in school now or in life later on So I am learning to make such choices Joining this competition for instance has been one I ve wanted to fully experience this contest to make friends to discover what my age peers believe and to stretch myself in new and unexpected ways I imagine this is true for most contestants here today But to do so we ve chosen to set aside pleasures such as watching TV series Friends and karaoke evenings so we could invest more time in more reading speaking and study Yet this competition by forcing us to take charge of our decisions has surely helped us define our values find out what we re capable of doing and learn what best suits our individual development I believe this knowledge of one s own caliber is the most valuable integral and longest lasting lesson for students in this increasingly competitive world As for the challenges and opportunities for us they will be determined by how adequately our education trains us to gain a clear perception of ourselves and thereby to make sensible choices that follow College education as British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead said should be energizing as the poet of our dreams and the architect of our purposes Such purpose self discipline and vision all hinge on the art of choice making As I look back on the advice received those very first days on campus I no longer feel perplexed because I now have my own guideline Make choices that lead to a clearer vision of who I am what I can do and how I may best tap my potential The horizon is now wide but distinct And the taste already feels sweet Thank you The Doors that Are Open to U Good morning ladies and gentlemen The title of my speech today is The Doors that Are Open to Us The other day my aunt paid me a visit She was overjoyed I got the highest mark in the mid term examination she said Don t be surprised My aunt is indeed a student to be exact a college student at the age of 45 Last year she put aside her private business and signed up for a one year full time management course in a college This was the wisest decision I have ever made she said proudly like a teenage girl To her college is always a right place to pick up new ideas and new ideas always make her feel young Compared with the late 70s she says now college students have many doors My aunt cannot help but recall her first college experience in 1978 when college doors began to be re opened after the Cultural Revolution She was assigned to study engineering despite her desire to study Chinese literature and a few years later the government sent her to work in a TV factory I was shocked when she first told me how she had had no choice in her major and job Look at us today So many doors are open to us I believe there have never been such abundant opportunities for self development as we have today And my aunt told me that we should reach our goals by grasping all these opportunities The first door I see is the opportunity to study different kinds of subjects that interest us My aunt said she was happy to study management but she was also happy that she could attend lectures on ancient Chinese poetry and on Shakespearean drama As for myself I am an English major but I may also go to lectures on history To me if college education in the past emphasized specialization now it emphasizes free and well rounded development of each individual So all the fine achievements of human civilization are open to us The second door is the door to the outside world Learning goes beyond classrooms and national boundaries My aunt remembers her previous college days as monotonous and even calls her generation frogs in a well But today as the world becomes a global village it is important that our neighbors and we be open minded to learn with and from each other I have many fellow international classmates and I am applying to an exchange program with a university abroad As for my aunt she is planning to get an MBA degree in the United Kingdom where her daughter my cousin is now doing her master s degree in biochemistry We are now taking the opportunity to study overseas and when we come back we ll put to use what we have learnt abroad The third door is the door to lifelong learning As new ideas appear all the time we always need to acquire new knowledge regardless of our age Naturally my aunt herself is the best example Many of my aunt s contemporaries say that she is amazingly up to date for a middle aged woman She simply responds Age doesn t matter What matters is your attitude You may think it s strange that I am still going to college but I don t think I m too old to learn Yes she is right Since the government removed the age limit for college admissions in 2001 there are already some untraditional students sitting with us in the same classrooms Like these people my aunt is old but she is very young in spirit With her incredible energy and determination she embodies both tradition and modernity The doors open to us also pose challenges For instance we are faced with the challenge of a balanced learning the challenge of preserving our fine tradition while learning from the West and the challenge of learning continuously while carrying heavy responsibilities to our work and family So each door is a test of our courage ability and judgment but with the support of my teachers parents friends and my aunt I believe I can meet the challenge head on When I reach my aunt s age I can be proud to say that I have walked through dozens of doors and will in the remainder of my life walk through many more Possibly I will go back to college too Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen Challenges and Opportunities for Students Good morning ladies and gentlemen At present my fellow students and I have before us great personal and educational opportunities At the same time we are running into a variety of challenges Today s college education provides us with opportunities for bringing out the creativity and talent that we have within us This is nurtured both by our learned professors and by the growing dimension of knowledge sources such as the World Wide Web and multimedia sources Our educational experience is being transformed both within and beyond the traditional classroom However challenges still exist At the end of every semester students in my university are required to fill out a questionnaire as a review of the previous semester The questions usually cover a broad range of college life from curriculum adjustment to canteen service And almost every time the questionnaire includes one essential question that is As a college student what are your major challenges And almost every answer includes two aspects studying and professional These two challenges will remain our preoccupations as long as we live in such a competitive world A series of challenges in our studies start from almost the beginning of our freshman year We may wonder whether we ve chosen the right major We may wonder if the extracurricular activities add credits to our studies We may work our heads off to get a glorious A because B is already mediocre and C is almost unacceptable Later on we may be competing with our hardworking intelligent peers including our best friends to get into an ideal graduate school All of these sound so familiar and they have somehow made our college education so goal obsessed that we sometimes fail to fully enjoy our educational experience Apart from challenges in learning there are also professional challenges The competitive world today has also brought about the Knowledge Economy which requires the effective use of knowledge for economic and social development and also requires skilled and multi oriented students with a marketable vocational sense Therefore sophisticated calculations upon the value of a university degree are being made Graduate employability statistics are being scrutinized Programs like resume writing and interview skills are seen as a must Again as I ve said above when professional concern dominates our college education we may lose the essence of our educational experience Indeed facing these two challenges how can students manage to be what the employers seek and at the same time to enjoy a valuable insightful and rewarding educational experience For me the solution to the problem lies in what can be called an Educational Synthesis I remember attending a lecture by Professor Tu Weiming director of Harvard Yenching Institute In his lecture Professor Tu argued that the ideal state of college education is to arrive at a synthesis a combination of specific knowledge humanistic insight and sense of social responsibility Admittedly there is much to do to bridge the gap between our educational experience in college and the social employment in society Educational synthesis can help us narrow the gap Fortunately today s college education provides us with such a diverse world From this diverse world we may choose what we want to form our own educational synthesis Ladies and gentlemen as Charles Dickens once commented upon the time of the French Revolution It was the best of times it was the worst of times And I m afraid so it is with our time I believe once we achieve our own educational synthesis we will be able to transform our challenges into opportunities We will be able to see the best time of our life And more importantly we will be able to see the best time of our nation Thank you My Definition of Success Ladies and gentlemen I can say I m no less nervous than my fellow and he was on the first time coming before this house I can say ladies and gentlemen that the problem we are facing before us the problem that I have to deal with today is how to define success It is often too easy it is often too simplistic to define success as something external something objective something dealing with money fame or reputation But what I believe success is that it is not external It comes from within It is internal I believe success is that you have to have your own ideals and that you have faith in those ideals even in the face of extreme adversity And that is my definition of success I also believe that success is not discriminatory Success does not attach to a mere particular class of individuals I believe that each and every individual regardless of race gender class or even economic background has an equal right to success because each person has the right to develop his own ideals and to pursue those ideals A good example of this is the composer Beethoven a man who all of us know has created great symphonies This man was deaf This man was unable to hear his own majestic pieces of work And yet he held to his ideal of creation of music to the very end Then what exactly does the definition of success mean to me To answer this question to exemplify it I pose a question to this house I pose a question what brings us here together today ladies and gentlemen students and educators as you like And the answer that I have found is the love for the spoken word Love for the spoken word means how it is to express how it is to listen how it is to understand Because what happens when you have a pause what happens when you have a rhetoric speech all differs on the impact and communication that you have on your audience But the meaning of the spoken word applies ever more strongly to those who are unable to speak or are unwilling to speak Because all the beautiful thoughts and emotions encapsulated in that person will inevitably be lost if that person is not able to speak I once went to Australia in 1998 and I saw two pictures drawn by three year old children One was drawn by a normal child one was drawn by what is known as an autistic child a child which is exclusive which is unable