关于阅读的英语演讲稿
【篇一：关于阅读的英语演讲】
have you insisted on reading great books
what is a great book? there is no end to the making of books. nor does there seem to be any end to the making lists of great books. there has always be more books than one could read. you can be happy at the fact that the number of that is relatively small.
however,today,people usually leave it in the library. according to the national reading survey issued by the china academy of press and publication, in 2012, only 55% chinese aged between18 and 70 book read books .that is to say, there are more than forty percent of the people seldom read in china.
it is a great challenge to literature. as a educated student,have you insist on reading great books. in order to change the situation ,we must take actions to read great books.
in adler’s essay of what is a great book, he explain why we should read great books. i conclude it as follows.
first,great books are the most readable. they will not let you down ,if you read them well. the have more ideas per page than most books in the their entirety. this is why you can read a great book over and over again and never exhaust it contents. second ,great books are always contemporary,in contrast to the books we called contemporary,because they are currently popular ,last for a year or tow,or ten at most. you may probably can not recall the names of many earlier best sellers,and you may probably would not be interest in reading them. but the great are never out modeled by the movement of thought or the shifting winds of opinion .
third ,great books are the most instructive. this follows the fact that they are original communications. they contain what cannot be found in other books. whether you ultimately agree or disagree what they say. they are the primary teachers of mankind. they have made basic contribution to human right .
just giving you the reason is not enough, i will give you some methods to realize you reading dream.
firstly,you can begin with a interesting novel. you will be attracted by the figures,the plots .than ,after reading a lot of
books ,you may be get into a habit of reading. so,you can contact with some complex books,such as philosophy ,arts and so on. you will be shocked at the new world.
there are countless great books in our library,you must make great advantage of it. of course ,it is a better choice to buy great books. collecting books is a enjoyable thing,at least for me. so,reading great books. the new world is coming.
【篇二：大学生关于读书英语演讲稿】
大学生关于读书英语演讲稿
ancient chinese characters but i tried to read the heavy books and were deeply attracted. from then on, i spared every minute to read whatever i could get. whenever i got a new book, i kept reading until i finished it despite time and place. i read books even in class or just a few minutes before the exams. in my mind, there is always an unforgettable scene: lying in bed, nervous but excited, my friend and i read a book together in the weak light of a flashlight , with a quilt on us, in order not to be blamed by parents. all my classmates thought i was crazy and gave me a nickname “bookworm”. so you can understand why i got my eyes shortsighted.
till now, i still like reading as i used to. and i’m very
pleased to see that my ten-year-old son loves reading just like me. i have bought him many books. whenever you come into my home, you can find books in every corner. but the place where my son and i enjoy reading most is in the toilet. so it often happens in the morning: one is in the toilet reading something comfortably, while another
walking outside , shouting. for my age, i like to read magazines or short stories to get relaxation as well as inspiration.
today we live in a world of prosperity. never before have we
faced so many temptation from the outside world. never before have we had so many chances to enjoy our lives. we drive rather than walking; we go online to chat with people we’ve never met before instead of talking to friends around us. but there’s always something that cannot be replaced and forgotten., such as books. so i will allow myself to continue the journey in the ocean of books until the very end of my life. finally, i’d like to end my speech with a great philosopher, writer and thinker, francis bacon’s famous saying: reading
makes a full man. studies serve for delight, for ornament, and
for ability.thank you very much.
女士们，先生们，早上好。今天我很高兴在这里与你分享我的故事，关于阅读意见。我喜欢阅读从我的心底。而我也从书本中学习很多。我知道在历史上伟大的英雄，自然秘密，我们的宇宙奥秘和不明飞
行物的精彩故事。对我来说，书像一个忠实的朋友，总是围绕着我，给我的享受和智慧。
我记得当我在小学，10或11岁的时候，我父亲在他借用了学校图
书馆的书籍。这些都是在世界最伟大的作品，包括abrabian夜，在
神化，传说西方之旅，和三国演义。这些书都是写在古老的汉字，
但我试图读出沉重的书籍，被深深吸引。从此，我每分钟的时间读
完不遗余力我能得到什么。每当我得到一本新书，我一直在读书，
直到我完成了，尽管它的时间和地点。甚至在课堂上我读到或只是
在考试前几分钟的书籍。在我心目中，始终有一个令人难忘的一幕：在床上，紧张而兴奋，我的朋友说谎，我读了书一起在手电筒微弱
的光与我们的被子上，为了不被父母责备。我所有的同学以为我疯了，给了我一个绰号“书呆子”。所以你可以理解为什么我得到了我
的眼睛近视。
【篇三：关于自信的英语演讲稿】
self-confidence
confidence is power--the power to attract, persuade, influence, and succeed. imagine what your life would be like if you had
an abundance of selfconfidence !
confidence isnt an inherited trait, it s a learned one. this
means that you can have an abundance of self-confidence. start here, right now.
confidence starts in the mind.what you think of yourself very much influences the way you feel about yourself. this, in turn, affects the way you speak and act.
no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.the
very first thing you have to do to create abundant
self-confidence is to start thinking ourselves with confidence. pay attention to your internal dialogue, and learn to notice
when you allow negativity or doubt to control the course of
your thinking.
your environment has a tremendous influence on you. the books you read, the people you spend time with, and the
music you listen to all influence the way you think and feel about yourself and the world around you.
in a nutshell, your environment can either build up your self-confidence or drag it down.
if youre in a situation where youre discouraged, such as an unhealthy relationship or a miserable job, you have to change that situation if you want your self-confidence level to grow.
create an environment that supports you if your desire to have abundant self-confidence. spend time with confident people.
remember those, self-confidence can be yours. take it!
自信
自信就是力量——吸引人、说服人、影响人并取得成功的力量。设
想一下，如果你充满自信，你的生活会是怎样一番景象!
自信并非来自遗传，是需要后天学习的。这就意味着，你也可以充
满自信。从现在、从这里开始。
自信必须首先从想法开始。你怎么样看待自己，很大程度就影响了
你觉得自己怎样。转而也影响了你说话、做事的方式。
没有你的默认，谁也无法将你看低一等。
充满自信的第一步是要开始自信地看待自己。注意自己的内心对话，注意你什么时候让消极和怀疑控制了自己的思想。
你周围的环境对你有着莫大的影响。你读的书，和你呆在一起的人，你听的音乐都对你的思维方式、对自己的感觉以及对世界的看法产
生影响。一言蔽之，你的周遭环境不是增加你的自信就是打击你的
自信。
如果你现在所处的环境让你备受打击，比如说有一段不健康的关系
或者一份痛苦的工作，如果你想提高自信的话，你就要改变你现在
的处境。
如果你渴望充满自信，就创造一个支持你的环境，与自信的人多待
在一起。记住这些，自信就属于你。抓住它!
self-confidence
there are many factors that can contribute to a person’s success in life. whether he is at school or at work, a person is more likely to succeed if he is hard-working, honest, intelligent, responsible, and so on. but of all the possible characteristics
t hat can affect one’s success, i believe self-confidence to be
the most important for the following reasons.
the first reason is that when a person has self-confidence he believes in himself. he believes that he can and will succeed,
and this gives him the courage to try new things. in order to be successful we must be willing to take some risks, so having
self-confidence is very important. another reason is that a confident person rarely gives up. when he fails he tries again and again until he wins. a final reason is that confident people are not afraid to show off their achievements. this is not to say that they should brag, but that they should gracefully and confidently accept the compliments of others. when their achievements are noticed more by others at school or work, they are more likely to succeed.
in short, i believe self-confidence to be the most important factor in success. it enables people to take risks, try again
when they fail, and enjoy their accomplishments when they win. with these abilities, a confident person can succeed easily at school or work.
自信
促成一个人成功的因素有很多。不论是念书或工作，如果可以努力、诚实、聪明、负责任等，就比较有可能成功。但在所有可能影响成
功与否的特点中，基于下列理由，我认为自信最重要。
第一个理由就是，当一个人有自信的时候，就会相信自己的能力。
他会相信自己可以而且一定会成功，这一点让他有勇气尝试新事物。想要成功，我们必须愿意冒险，所以有自信是很重要的。另一个理
由是，有信心的人很少放弃，即使失败了，还是会不断尝试，直到
成功。最后一个理由是，有信心的人不怕炫耀自己的成就，这并不
表示他们应该自夸，而是应该优雅、有信心地接受别人的赞美。当
他们在学业或工作上的成就更受人注目时，成功的可能性就更高了。简言之，我认为自信是成功最重要的因素。自信使人勇于冒险，失
败了会再接再厉，成功时能享受自己的成就。有了这些能力，有信
心的人就能够轻易地在学业或工作上获得成功。
有关读书的英语演讲稿5分钟演讲 书籍真的就好比一个朋友，在悲伤的时候给安慰，它更会给我无穷无尽的知识。小编为大家整理了有关读书的英语演讲，欢迎大家阅读。 有关读书的英语演讲篇一 When I'm free or in trouble, I always take out a book and read quietly. In no time, I've put my heart into it so that I'll forget all the troubles. It's in this way that I've formed the habit of reading in any time. Little boys as I was, I was interest in picture books and storybooks. I was struck by them. No sooner had I entered the middle school than I began to read novel, plays, essays and so on. I found I could get much from them. Little by little I took great interest in literature and last term I won the first prize in the composition contest among middle-school students in Zhe Jiang. Reading “The Emperor's New Clothes”, I had to let out a burst of laughter over his fool. “The Little Match Girl” couldn't keep me from crying for her misery. “ Robinson Crusoe” took me into a strange world full of danger. And I was also deeply impressed by Helen Keller's patience and perseverance… Besides these, books also tell me other thing -how to be a man and how to tell the difference between right and wrong. In a word, good books can make me know what I didn't before. So I think of a good book as my best friend. I'll never forget this famous saying,“ Good books are best friends who never turn their backs upon us.” Have you ever learned English by watching English DVD movies? Is that an effective English learning method for you? Why? Watching English DVD movies is a very effective method of learning English. I learnt English at college at home. As a natural result of insufficient English speaking environment, my speaking and listening abilities were not developed satisfactorily, although my reading and writing abilities were quite all right. I remember my experience during a summer vacation when I made plans to watch 10 original English movies (I mean those not dubbed.) including the classic Casablanca, Rebecca, A Tale of Two Cities, and Little Women.
boys and grils，thank you for taking the time to be here . i’m here to tell you something about qualities .maybe you say i’m not a pretty and i am not a princess, also you will say i don’t have million air parents, but all of these don’t master much. it you have good qualities inner beauty stead of this, you could say loudly i’m the best .nobody can go beyond me i think quantity plays an impotent vole in our life .so your teachers told you to be an honest and helpful child since kindergarten. so we have the selections of the creates ten people who move china every year. they are the examples for us because of their qualities. if you help an old man cross the road, people will see you with admiratim even if you have bad studies.ouanlities don’t always need money, many people who hoe with ay that money can buy live elwpty inside.so i hope all of you have good quantities and aim high. thank you again for your kind attention.篇二：300字英文演讲稿 every day is a gift “ta, ta, ta.” do you feel the time going away my friend ? i heard an interesting sentence from《kungfu panda》，“ yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that’s why we call it the present. ”i think so too,every day is important, we should cherish every day. i think everyone has their own regrets. so do i. for example , i always have many ideas about my holiday. such as, i want to read books every weekend. i want to study every day. but finally i am just eating and sleeping, just like a little pig. i should feel shame. because i didn’t do anything useful ,i wasted my time. according to the survey, an average of 200000 deaths every day. so may be one day , we will die. will we still have regrets? maybe the answer is “yes”. we should prevent this kind of situation from happening. so we should let each value plays the biggest a day. luxun said :“wasting people’s time is equal to murder, wasting their own time is equal to suicide .” an inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold. so wasting time is very very very important. if aperson can live to be 80 years, a person can live about twenty thousand days. how many days do we have today? so please write it on your heart that every day is the best of the year. money can’t buy time. we should treasure every day to give us the best gift, give us the best result, give us the best tomorrow.篇三：环保演 讲稿(200字) 保护环境（英文）演讲稿 莞城英文学校五（3）班 【英文】 hello, my name is erick, i am going to talk about“protect environment, begin from me” today. how to protect the environment? i think we can do like this: we can save water for example. we can reuse the water after washing dishes, we can use it to flush toilet. treasure food and use less chopsticks. turn off the lights and save the energy .take a bus and drive cars as less as possible. at the same time, we also take good care of trees and flowers keep clean. thank you! 【中文】(共200字)
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汽车设计师英语演讲稿 篇一：汽车设计师英语演讲稿 good morning everyone ,today, the topic of my lecture（演讲） is “do you love automobiles（tmbilz）”.before i start my speech ,i want to ask a question,did there anybody present had seen the movie”the fast and the furious[fjrs]”.there are many cars of different styles in the movie,for example ,when you see the movie,you can find roadsters（跑 车） just like porsche（保时捷） gt3,sports utility (通用的）vehicles（车）suv such as volkswagen [f:lks,va:gn]touareg [twɑ:reɡ](大众途锐）,even armored cars ,all of them are so powerful and beautiful. [mgnfs()nt],and it’s gear-shift system（齿轮转动系统） shows astonishing （惊人的）[stnanti-interfering performance ,which make you simple to operation. （操作） at last,i hope everyone can have more knowledges
关于勇气的英语演讲稿 honorablejudges,distinguishedguests,ladiesandgentlemen:itisagreathonor andpleasuretobehereonthisbeautifulsaturdaymorningtosharewithyoumyse ntimentsaboutlifeandpassionfortheenglishlanguage.aboutayearandahalfag o,itookpartinmyveryfirstenglishspeechcontest.whenistoodbeforethemicro phonewithalleyesstarringdirectlyatme,icouldhardlyspeak.istoodthere,emb arrassedandhelpless,strugglinginvainfortherightthingtosay.myfearshadpara lyzedme.whilemypassionforenglishhasneverchanged,ilostmycouragetospea kinpublic.whenmyprofessoragainencouragedmetotakepartinthiscompetitio n,isaidno.icouldn’tendureyetanotherpainfulexperience.helookedmestraigh tintheeyeandsaidsomethingthatpiercedmyheart.iwillneverforgethiswords.l ook,hesaid,weallhaveourfears,andyouhaveyours.youcouldtwistyouranklein abasketballgame,butthenbeafraidtoeverplayagain.runningawaycanneverdi spelyourfears,butactionwill.awinnerisnotonewhoneverfails，butonewhoneverquits.ispentawholedaywithhiswordstwistingandturningin mymind.thenimadethebravestandwisestdecisionofmylife:iwouldfacemyfea rs–andtakepartinthecompetition!asitturnedout,mydearoldprofessorwasrig ht.now,hereiam,onceagainstandingbeforeamicrophone.myheartisbeatingf ast,andmymouthisdry,butmostimportantly,ihavefacedmyfears--andthatma kesallthedifference!尊敬的法官，各位来宾，女士们，先生们：这是一
展望未来英语演讲稿 【篇一：展望未来,放飞梦想(3分钟英语演讲稿)】 greeting everybody!its my honor to share my topic here with you. today id like to talk about my dream. when i was a little girl,i often thought about my future.will i be rich or will i be successful?in fact,i never considered what job will i get.a writer?a reporter?or like now,a speecher? i don’t know.well,i think i’m an ordinary person.so i just want to have a house of my own when i grow up.in my imagination,it may not be very big,but it must be comfortable and warm enough.if the weather is good,i will sit on my sofa and read books or listen to music on the balcony in the sun.if it is rainy,i’ll sit ther e and watch the beautiful world in the rain through the window.sometimes i will walk by the riverside and enjoy the scenery.sometimes i won’t do anything but just lie on my bed. i think all of these things are tiny and beautiful moments in life because they can give me a heart break.it seems that i live a very simple life.however,it’s the life that i really want to live. no scenery in the world remains unchanged. as long as you keep your heart basking in the sun,then every dawn will present a fine prospect for you to unfold and the world will always be about new hopes. yes,maybe i won’t be very rich or successful,but i believe that i will live a happy and healthy life.and,that is my dream,my own dream. that’all.thanks for listening! 【篇二：展望未来演讲稿】 展望未来演讲稿 告别了寒冷的冬天，我们迈步走进春天的校园。当温暖的阳光洒在 身上，当鲜艳的五星红旗冉冉升起的时候，我们这些新时代的少先 队员都会感到万分的自豪，无比的幸福。然而，亲爱的同学们，你 可知道这美好的生活来得多么不容易呀！ 忘不了雪山草地，每一颗红星闪亮着希望，二万五千里的长征路啊，气壮山河！忘不了少年英雄王二小，机警地侦察敌情，用自己少年 的生命，在共和国的旗帜上留下血染的风采。
读书英语演讲稿 读书英语演讲稿 Good morning teachers and fellow students. Today we would like to introduce a few favorite books to you. My favorite book is . This is a diary written by an Italian boy Enrico. The diary is about his life and study. It included various touching stories that happened around Enrico, the mottos taught by his parents, as well as the wonderful ten monthly stories told by his teacher during the class. Every word in the chapter describes the word love. From patriotism to friendship, and to the love between parents and child -- really touching. This novel taught me how to love, and how to learn from love. I really like this book very much. How about you? What is your favorite book? My favorite book is . Have you read it before? Oh, I haven’t read this book before. What is it about? Well, it is a story of a rich girl who maintained her noble character after the bankruptcy of her father. The story is happy ending.
关于低碳环保的英语演讲稿5篇 低碳生活可以让我们的身体健康，环境优美，生活质量真正提高。为了我们的生活更美好，人们应该互相提倡，互相督促，共创绿色家园，让我们的家园更美好、更灿烂!一起来看看关于低碳环保的英语演讲稿5篇，欢迎查阅! 关于低碳环保的英语演讲稿1 We live in the beautiful earth, it's a pity that the earth is every day under the various odor, chemical items, poison, carrion, automobile exhaust, living garbage, factories and so on dirty garbage pollution, make our lovely earth gradually degradation. So to protect the environment is the duty of every man. Plants and trees is human natural oxygen “manufacturer”. But the deforestation, the destruction of the ecological balance of nature; Sand dunes to gobble up the fertile land, white; Floods can be our lovely home. Relentless
stuff we clear the river bees cloudy. Dense forests bee sparse clutter, the blue sky bee dark, green mountains bee bald. Mud-rock flow, dust storm, flood... These disasters are caused by a dirty environment. So we should protect the environment. How to protect the environment? First of all, can't litter, saw rubbish pick up, is the environment bee clean and beautiful. Second, do not arbitrarily trle flowers and plants trees. To plant trees, a variety of flowers and plants. Electricity, bring us all kinds of convenience, especially gives us light, lit up the colorful world. But we want to save electricity, because electricity is mostly produced by burning coal. Save electricity is to save from coal, less waste, and only enough storage of coal mining in our country in one hundred
3分钟勇气英语演讲稿五篇 3分钟勇气英语演讲稿篇一 In the matter of courage we all have our limits. There never was a hero who did not have his bounds. I suppose it may be said of Nelson and all the others whose courage has been advertised that there came times in their lives when their bravery knew it had come to its limit. I have found mine a good many times. Sometimes this was expected--often it was unexpected. I know a man who is not afraid to sleep with a rattle-snake, but you could not get him to sleep with a safety-razor. I never had the courage to talk across a long, narrow room. I should be at the end of the room facing all the audience. If I attempt to talk across a room I find myself turning this way and that, and thus at alternate periods I have part of the audience behind me. You ought never to have any part of the audience behind you; you never can tell what they are going to do. I’ll sit down. 3分钟勇气英语演讲稿篇二 Ladies and gentlemen , good afternoon! i’m very glad to stand here and give you a short sp eech. today my topic is “youth”. i hope you will like it , and found the importance in your youth so that more cherish it. first i want to ask you some questions:
有关未来英语演讲稿 篇一： my future long-term career goal is to bee a part of the managing a recognized hotel or restaurant. i would need to attend school, graduate and bee diploma certified in order to bee a hotel manager. i believe i will be successful in being a hotel management. i may find several job opportunities, because of the experience that i will have from the internship and the best reputation from a swiss hotel management school. my job skills relate to my future career goals in several ways. my knowledge of puters is very useful in todays society. i am experienced in several aspects of the puter. i am literate of several puter programs such as microsoft office with several years of experience in the internet. furthermore, i consider myself very puter literate, and in todays career fields literacy is required. munication and social skills are very important when dealing with customers. the happiness and satisfaction of the customer is what panies thrive on their business in order to profit, and keep up with supply and demand. whether the client is happy or not,
关于读书的英语演讲稿 关于读书的英语演讲稿1 I at ordinary times is a person in a reading, mom and dad let me reading I'm worried, but I read a book, Mr Ba jin's "home", I was in love with reading. The math book, to expand my thinking ability, make I can say will be "little smart"; Chinese book, let me more love, the good word we to improve my ability of reading by; English book, you can make me communicate with foreigners fluently, without language barriers; History books, is I and zu chongzhi, account, Copernicus, napoleon... To the intimate contact again and again; Naturally, I became good friends and nature; Moral character and society, that I know of a person, and have the public spirit; Science books, that I again and again to get a little experiment and a truth; A document that I learned good word, we enjoy the happy, so as to improve the writing ability. The romance of The Three Kingdoms in sentient beings to guan yu, zhang fei of crude and refined, ingenuity, cao cao and so on, they deduced a legendary story after another. "Journey to the west" has seventy-two sun wukong, simple and honest funny pig eight quit, seemingly brutish but not much sand monk, they suffered wringer on the way to obtain buddhist scriptures. Now there are more and more books I read, the knowledge is becoming more and more rich, I was more and more like to read books! 关于读书的英语演讲稿2 if we have a book ,we will not be felling of being longly When I'm free or in trouble, I always take out a book and read quietly. In no time, I've put my heart into it so that I'll forget all the troubles. It's in this way that I've formed the habit of reading in any time.
关于旅行的英语演讲稿【精选3篇】 走就走的旅行才是能实现，下面是小编为大家整理的关于旅行的英语演讲稿，欢迎大家阅读。 关于旅行的英语演讲稿范文(一) 文明旅游When holiday comes, thousands of people pour into the tourist sites, they want to relax themselves and enjoy the beautiful scenery. But Chinese people have a bad habit, they like to leave some notes on the site, proving them have been here before. Such a behavior has been criticized by the public, because the leaving note will damage the preservation of the tourist site. Most of the tourist sites are part of our country’s historical relics, these sites are priceless, it is everyone’s duty to protect the sites. When we go to travel, we should behave ourselves. First, we need to have the idea that no rubbish being leaved behind when we leave the site. We should take away what we bring, keep the environment clean. Second, no any notes being written in the sites. Though in the old days, Chinese workers like to leave their names on the sites, but now it is a new world, we need to behave ourselves. 当节假日到来的时候，成千上百的人聚集在旅游景点，他们想要放松，享受美丽的风景。但是中国人有一个坏习惯，他们喜欢在景点留下一些记号，证明曾经在此旅游。这样的行为遭到了大众的批评，因为留下的记号会破坏景点的保存。大部分景点是国内的历史文物，是无价的，保护文物是每一个人的责任。当文明旅游时候，应该要规范自己的行为。 第一，文明需要有这样的观念，当我们离开景点时，不能留下垃圾，拿走带来的一切。 第二，不在景点留下记号。虽然在古代，中国的文人喜欢留下他们的名字，但是现在是新时代，我们要规范自己的行为。 关于旅行的英语演讲稿范文(二) 出去走走：年轻的时候要去旅行的三大理
十分钟英语演讲稿：勇气Courage 怎样用英语演讲关于勇气的主题？下面小雅WTT分享了十分 钟英语演讲稿：勇气 Courage，希望你喜欢。 十分钟英语演讲稿：勇气 Courage in the matter of courage we all have our limits. there never was a hero who did not have his bounds. i suppose it may be said of nelson and all the others whose courage has been advertised that there came times in their lives when their bravery knew it had e to its limit. i have found mine a good many times. sometimes this was expected--often it was unexpected. i know a man who is not afraid to sleep with a rattle-snake, but you could not get him to sleep with a safety-razor. i never had the courage to talk across a long, narrow room. i should be at the end of the room facing all the audience. if i attempt to talk across a room i find myself turning this way and that, and thus at alternate periods i have part of the audience behind me. you ought never to have any part of the audience behind you; you never can tell what they are going to do. i'll sit down.