英文即席演讲稿范例

1、Impromptu speech topics range from topic issues of video clips and cartoon pictures to general statement, quotations, and questions similar to the writing tests ones in TOEFL or IELTS. The following are student impromptu speech samples. Read or listen to it carefully and summarize the ways of compos

2、ing effective impromptu speech.Video topic issueHas the Internet narrowed or increased the distance between people? Why? -Bu Yang 2002 （决赛2分钟） OK. I'm gonna first tell you a story. Last year, I was working for a media company. Whenever I check my e-mail in the office, I get a lot of e-mails from

3、 all around the world. I get e-mails from people who live on the other side of the globe, from the other side of the earth, but I also get e-mails from people who's just sitting on the other side of my office. I bring up this example because I believe it shows well the advantages and disadvantag

4、es the Internet serves as a tool for people communicating. Of course, if two people are very distant away from one another, when they are very far away from one another, e-mail is a very important powerful tool. The Internet serves as a very good powerful tool. If you need to tell the other person s

5、omething, you just type in words and write an e-mail. And then, within seconds, the e-mail is sent to the other side of the earth. That's, of course, very powerful. But when people are sitting so close, they are living so close to one another, it's not a large distance, we shouldn't use

6、Internet so much as a communicating tool. Take my example that I mentioned earlier, employers, they have to send e-mails back and forth even when they are sitting in the same office, when they are supposed to walk just a few steps away and tell the other person what they would like to tell them. But

7、 they, instead, send e-mails. And we have to check the e-mail every now and then because every five minutes or every ten minutes we get information to tell us what we are supposed to do. Of course, what this will lead us to is low efficiency when you are working, also not concentrated when you are w

8、orking. It also leads to a communication breakdown. Cartoon topic issueWhat do you think of cosmetic surgery? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?-Hu Minxia 2003 （决赛1分钟） Its an interesting topic, isnt it? Here firstly, I would like to define cosmetic surgery. By cosmetic surgery, we exclude those who

9、are severely injured or burned and have to receive medical treatments. We only refer to those who are physical healthy and just want to look better by deliberately seeking thing. First, to be natural is beautiful,. We should cherish what has been given to us and we should value our uniqueness. Just

10、imagine, if every man in the world looks like David Beckham, and if every woman looks like Princess Diana, what a horrible world it would be! And secondly, I would say, to be healthy is to be beautiful. How properly we can sleep, we can eat, and how much exercises we do, and also what kind of life s

11、tyle we live is more important than surgeries. Thank you.General statementGod never made an ordinary human being. -Yu Li 2005 （半决赛3分钟） Thank you all. In the Old Testament of Holy Bible, Chapter Number 1 the Genesis, we are told that God made Adam in his own image, and endowed with him the omnipotenc

12、e, the potentiality of that divinity in tem. And from the barbaric and primitive stage to a now prosperous society, and from the abyss of darkness and ignorance to the dis, we see a lot of people with intelligence, and from that kind of darkness to a now the night dodges with lights, God has seen us

13、 through all the vicissitudes of life. But in the 21st century, will god still endow with us superpower, will god still see us through, what will follow? But I think god has definitely gave us seven gifts. First and foremost is passion. Passion is the real power and drive for us to from, for us to s

14、ee us through and witness us form the very early age to our maturity. Second is humor. Humor gave us power to laugh over all the set backs and failures so that we can draw a lesson from them. The third is fortitude. As is found out in mountain climber who had weathered the storm and see the beautifu

15、l sky with the exposure to the majestic look around him unfettered by that kind of confinements, you mean, you know what kind of fortitude you have. The fourth is poise. Poise is the readiness to accept any change, to, so you will not get perplexed and disturbed by the fast changes in society, the p

16、ace we will be catch up with. The fifth is style. Style means you have not only been a manufacturing power house, but you have that dimension of literature, that kind of wealth, of spring of mental wealth. The sixth is individuality. Thats why we are making this speech. So we are different. And that

17、s what makes me extraordinary, made me extra-ordinary. The seventh is passion. Right, you got passion again. Because passion in twice as importance as much as anything else. Without passion, Im standing here I would like, make a speech like automation. And in retrospect, we see many moving stories,

18、from zero to hero, from underdog to super achievers, from Cinderella to fabulous-look queen. And that is god just imitating to us confide in a little story that, “Hey, guys, youre not an ordinary human being because you are the image of me.” And I think blessed with that divinity, we can make any mi

19、racle a reality. Thank you very much.Quotation No one has ever become poor by giving. -Anne Frank -Yan shu, 2006 (半决赛3分钟)Thank you, hostess! Ladies and gentlemen, to start my speech, I want to ask you a very simple question first. How to become rich, to rob a bank , or to marry a very rich woman, or

20、 that we can buy lottery so that we stand a chance to become rich overnight? But the chance is very small.Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to share with you my opinions on this topic, and tell you the secret of how to become rich. We can become rich by giving. But everybody may not accept my ideas

21、 in this way. Some of them may think we become poor by giving.But ladies and gentlemen, we should all know that even though everyone of us live a different life, every one of us are bound to go from point A to point B. So what is point A? Point A is the cradle, and point B is the grave. I do believe

22、 that living in this world well only need adequate food and a descent bed to sleep. That is what we really need to live a really comfortable life. We dont need so much money. What use? Remember the great philosopher of Doagenes, the father of cynicism. He told us that worldly possessions would not m

23、ake us rich but make us fall into the constant worry of losing them. Ladies and gentlemen, Francis Bacon told us, “If money not be our servant, it will be our master.” So, giving will not make us poor, but having much money and to be a millionaire sometimes is not the real sense of being rich.And se

24、condly we can become rich by giving. Just how? We have to talk about what is really important in ones life. As I believe personal friendships and also experience are important in ones life. I believe friendship is like a seed. You first put them in a nurturing soil so that it can grow and it takes t

25、ime and watering and devotion to wait the seed to grow into a splendid sheltering prime. And we have to devote to our friendship so that we know our friends better. When we are joyful, when we succeed, we can share our success and our joy with our friens. Those joys will be multiplied and become mor

26、e joys. How rich you are! And also personal experiences are very important to make one rich. We can become rich in this way by giving. Thomas Edison has invented thousands of great inventions in this world, greatly accelerating the human history and civilization. How much and how many has he given u

27、s? He never became poor. His great experience has enriched his life as well as mankinds livesLadies and gentlemen, I want to say one sentence and quoted Hemingway once said. “Kindness is a hard thing to give away. It always returns to the giver.” Let us hold this notion and this faith in our heart,

28、and you will all become millionaires and billionaires.Thank you!Cartoon PictureWe are looking for a few good people to teach our kids here! Do any of you have a teaching certificate?- Wang Jing (半决赛3分钟)Well, this picture is really thought-provoking, and this makes me think about two questions: what

29、is the real certificate for a good teacher? And in our society, what kind of teachers do we need?Well, as for the first point, I want to define a good teacher in my mind. I think a good teacher should be, first and foremost, a good thinker. You see, William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin

30、Franklin are standing in the crowd. They dont have a teaching certificate, but with their independent thinking, as well as great virtue, they are influencing the world continuously. Abraham Lincoln, with his emancipation and proclamation, has taught the world to respect each other despite that you h

31、ave different skin color, eye color and different nationalities. And also, Benjamin Franklin has kept telling us we need to be strong and self-dependent. These are great thinkers and these are great teachers.And secondly, a good teacher should be a teacher with deep love for others. Mother Teresa, a

32、s you see in the middle of the crowd, as well as Jesus Christ and also Annie Sullivan, I think she is maybe behind the crowd. They are all people continuously supporting others with their deep love. Mother Teresa fifty years ago has set up a campaign to help those people suffering from HIV/AIDS. And

33、 the former president of France, Jacques Chirac, could best conclude her life in her funeral. He said some words like this, “Tonight, theres less light, less love and less compassion in this world.” These are the people with deep love and continuously supporting others. They set a moral model for ev

34、ery one of us, teaching us to love each other and also make the world more harmonious. So these are the best teachers in my eyes. However, in todays society, especially in todays universities, we pay too much attention to peoples career and also peoples career skills instead of looking at the expres

35、sion, and the emotion in the heart of human beings, all of these great virtues. So I think a teaching certificate may be something, but its not every thing. We need learn from those great men and great women about the great virtues, about those great qualities, so as to make ourselves a qualified gl

36、obal citizen, trusted friend to fulfill our goals. Cao FengHost: Now in the age of the Internet, reading books does not seem as important as it once was. Do you think people can learn as much on the Internet as they can by reading books? Which method do you prefer?Cao Feng: Thank you very much. And

37、hello again ladies and gentlemen. Actually, I dont really agree with the first sentence of this topic: “In the age of Internet, reading books is not as important as it was once.” Why? Why is it the case? Why is it the situation, ladies and gentlemen? Actually, Internet or books are just like tea or

38、coffee. They are similar, but they are different.University students nowadays love to use the Internet to search for information when they are working with their essays. Like, last semester, when I was working with my physics essay, I logged into Google and I searched for “NEWTON” and all the laws a

39、nd theories of Newton just popped out and I can choose whichever one I like to use. But when I walked into the library, all the books came out and I have to choose which one to read. How inconvenient!Maybe you can say at this moment, “Oh, Internet is better, books no use.” So I have to use Internet,

40、 right? But lets see the things in another way.I love traveling a lot and I love to bring a book with me. And I love to read my Da Vinci Code when I was having my trip on a bus or on a ship. Actually, whenever it is, wherever you go, whatever you are doing, you can take out a book and read if you fe

41、el like doing so. Now who will bother to take a laptop and switch it on, and search for the Internet connection, and look for stories to read. How inconvenientSo at this very moment I think its quite dangerous for me, because I think Im, unable to answer the question in the topic “Which method do yo

42、u prefer, Internet or books?” because I love the feeling of conjuring a hundred pages of Harry Potter, more than scrolling down the screen; but at the same time I love the feeling of searching the things, the speed of my searching for things on the Internet, more than wasting my time in the library.

43、So in this age of Internet, in this age of modernization, in this age of civilization, why do you have to force someone to choose between Internet and books? I prefer using both of them. Thank you very much.Chen XingHost: Euthanasia is a way of relieving ill peoples pain and saving them from the tor

44、tures of their illness. Do we have power to take peoples lives for this reason? Or should the right to die be considered a “right” for terminally ill patients?“When I am dead, my dearest,Sing no sad songs for me.Plant thou no roses at my head,No shady cypress tree.Be the green grass above meWith sho

45、wers and dewdrop wet.And, if thou wilt, remember.And, if thou wilt, forget.”For many, death is not frightening. For many, death is beautiful. For many, suffering from incurable deadly diseases, death is a longing. But no matter what they think, we cant make the decision for them. Death is their own

46、business. Whether for good intention or bad, if we decide to take another persons life, its murder. We take it for granted that people suffering from long terminal diseases, want to die. Perhaps it might be so in some cases but hoe are we to tell? We cant make decision for others. Many old people, s

47、uffering from Alzheimers, seem to be living a most pitiable life to us. They no longer even recognize the beloved ones around them. But perhaps theyre enjoying their life, because they are now cut off from any worldly affairs and problems. They are kind of reliving their childhood. They are, perhaps

48、, enjoying it. We cant terminate their life. Some people, suffering from cancer, seem to be living most painful life to us, what with all these torturing treatments and the prospect of death in front of them. But perhaps, deep down in their heart, they want to go on, they want to live, they want to

49、fight, they want to feel every bit of sunshine on earth, and hear the pitter patter of rain in spring. Some people, vegetable people, cant express themselves, and to us they are not see life conquering death. And, besides, miracles do happen now and then. There are cases that, when a vegetable perso

50、n is wakened from his long slumber by love and caring. If we rob him of that chance, we are committing murder. We are extinguishing hope. If we make the right to take another persons life away illegally, I shudder to think what the consequences will be. Perhaps some family, tired of taking care of a

51、n old person, might get rid of him for that reason. Perhaps a family full of daughters, sons, granddaughters, grandsons, gaping at the inheritance, will want to get rid of the old person for that reason. I really shudder to think the consequences. No! If I want to die, its my own business. No one is

52、 going to take that decision for me. Yes, death might be a beautiful journey after the experience we have on earth, but I dont want to be hurried onto that journey by anybody else. If I am determinedmy life is terminated by another person, I will rise from my grave and haunt that person, “and he wil

53、l always feel the shadows, he will always feel the rain, and he will always hear the nightingale weep on, as if in pain.”Thank you.Wu XiangchenHost: Contestant No.16, its been said that technology creates more problems than it solves and may threaten or damage the quality of life. Is this statement

54、reasonable? What problems does technology bring us? Use specific examples in your answer, please.Wu Xiangchen: Thank you. I guess most of you have seen the movie Terminator. I want to make avery bad prophet that human being will one day be terminated by our own technology.People all say that Shakesp

55、eare is the greatest writer in this world. I think from this aspect, we can learn that, that the first killer of our future is computers.You can think that you may be able to read thousands of reasons for Shakespeares success, but beyond these thousands of reasons I want to say Shakespeare succeeded

56、 to be the greatest writer simply because Shakespeare has no Microsoft Word process to do his works. Shakespeare correct every single line of his composition of his work by his own hand. And that is why Shakespeare can be the greatest writer and will always be remembered by us.People always say that

57、 Mozart is the greatest composer in this world . You may also raise thousands of reasons for Mozarts success. But I want to say, beyond all these reasons, it is simply for the reason that Mozart had no MP3 to download songs from the Internet to listen to. Mozart trust his own ears. He listens to eve

58、ry single sound that a piano produced. So that is the reason why Mozart can be the greatest composer.And people say that Picasso is the greatest painter in this world. You may also raise thousands of reasons for Picassos success. But I want to tell you that, beyond these reasons, it is because that Picasso had no Photoshop software to use to produce his pictures. Picasso correct every single line that he had drawn with his own hand and that is the way how he succeeded.And finally, I want to tell you that computers bring us automation and the automation w