1、6making china strongerenglish speech introduce myselfhelloeverybodyits my honour to introduce myself to you. i think everyone knows bill gates, and my english name is bill shaw. my chinese name is sixiao. now i a student, studying in shizhuang high school.making china strongertoday the topic of my s
2、peech is making china stronger.we have the same home. her name is called china. there are many brothers and sisters- every time i hear the song, i feel very excited because the song makes me think of my great motherland.we all know china is a great country with a long history of 5,000 years. they ne
3、ver give in to any pressure and difficulties. we drove out all the enemies. in 1949 the peoples republic of china was founded. since then great changes have taken place in our motherland. now our country is getting stronger and stronger. so chinese people are industrious and courageous people.unfort
4、unately, a big earthquake happened in sichuan . it made many people lose their lives in the disaster. anyway, the twenty-ninth olympic games were held successfully in beijing, the capital of china. chinese people are proud of it all over the world. so i will also say to my motherland: you are the gr
5、eatest. everyone knows china is one of the most powerful countries. as the new generation, we should work hard and make our motherland more beautiful and powerful.young wisdom is kingdom wisdom, young rich is kingdom rich; young strong is kingdom strong. my favorite subjects are chinese and english.
6、 as we all know, english and chinese are both very important. im willing to try my best to learn english, such as listening to english songs, watching english movies, or watching tv programs. i hope i can learn english well and increase my knowledge more.i will remember premier zhou words: lets stud
7、y for the prosperity and development of china.! today for national rejuvenation we should study hard, to create the motherland brilliant future and to contribute to its strength! only in this way can the chinese nation revive the penis. human civilization and progress make more contribution. we must
8、 improve national self-respect and self-confidence, to create more splendid national culture and all-out efforts. let the whole world know, china,the eastern dragons, stand up! nowadays, english is widely used in the world,so we should improve our english and make china stronger and stronger!thats a
9、ll.thanks for listening! to choose to choose, to give up4 -17to choose, to give upa poet leads me to a branch road: on one side, there are lots of sweetapples, lovely and charming; on the other, there is a patch of thorn, whathides behind the success of struggling against the thorn is a splendidpala
10、ce. i deeply know that if i choose the apples, i will give up ai have to say farewell to the apples. which one should i choose?just like the branch road, we have to make a lot of choices during ourlifetime. it is usually considered that we are choosing what to gain, toown, but in my opinion, we are
11、just choosing to give up.choosing to be a teacher means giving up the life as rich as a businessman;choosing to be a top student means giving up much leisure time in frontof the tv.sure, its a torture, but we must judge carefully what is moreimportant, then give up the others. dont think of them any
12、 more, justfocus all your spirit on what you are doing.i myself, who is standing here, have already chosen to challenge in suchschool and relaxation without pressure. but i am still pleased, becausegiving up properly makes me stick to my choice.lets return to our branch road, which one will your cho
13、ose? i choose tochallenge here! seeking pleasure3 15seeking pleasurenot long ago, i read this story in a magazine: there was once a group ofyoung people searching everywhere for pleasure but what they got was onlyannoyance , melancholy and torture.so they turned to socrates for advice on where pleas
14、ure lay. but insteadof giving any answers, socrates asked them to help with building a boatfirst. the group of guys had to set about the task, laying aside their ownbusiness of seeking pleasure. it took them a long time to cut down a talltree, gouging out the center. through painstaking effort, they
15、 made acanoe out of the tree. they launched the canoe into a river, and thenrowed together in it, singing with joy.socrates asked: my children, do you have pleasure now? they answeredin chorus: we couldnt be happier! socrates added, thats it! wheneveryou are too busy pursuing something definite to n
16、otice anything bitter,pleasure will occur.from the story i got to know that pleasure always hides behind everytiny thing that you are engaged in, and that you may only get pleasurethrough hard work and creativity.it also tells us that we might have no alternative but to experiencesome pain in our da
17、ily life and in the process of seeking pleasure, orsometimes tend to look for pleasure in material things, like a new car,spirit. so why not turn suffering into praising life, and turn tears intothe light in your heart, only in this way can we make it through and holdthe magical spark to light the f
18、ire of life.so my dear friends, just remember pleasure is a state of mind and amatter of choice, and i wish you all a life of pleasure. -smile for life()2 16smile for lifefirst, ladies and gentlemen, please look at my face. do you know whatim doing? yes, quite right, im smiling.i like smiling, becau
19、se it makes me more confident and more popular.dont you think it important?can you imagine a world without smiles? can you bear seeing sad faceshere and there? what a gloomy world it would without smiles!but people sometimes overlook the importance of smiling since it is sosimple. it seems that peop
20、le are always in such a hurry for their ownsome people even want to be harry porter to learn the magic spell ofhappiness.now and here i should that, ladies and gentlemen, every one of us knowsexactly well what the spell actually is and the spell is so simple andjust at hand. what is it? thats smile.
21、smile is such a magic spell. it is a kind of emotional contact. it makesother better and it makes the love between lovers deeper.smile is such a magic spell. its also a kind of encouragement. it makespeople feel warm in ice and snow. it gives thirsty people power to walk onin desperate situations.so
22、 please remember smile make your life brighter and smile for life.every time you smile you give yourself a perfect chance to enjoy life.every time you smile, you bring the brilliant sunshine to the whole worldaround you as well as to yourself.nike tells us just do it. so i will say: just smile it. -
23、nikejust smile it! trust and love()1 16trust and lovegood evening, everyone!throughout my years of being a student, ive had many teachers. none ofthem are the same, but the one that ill never forget and will always missis my chinese bilingual teacher in the middle school i attended inseattle, ms. ho
24、. she was a skinny, but stylish lady in her 50s. she wasdifferent from all the other teachers because she gave me somethingunforgettable.ms. ho and i became friends right in the first semester i was in thatmiddle school. at the same time, i was having a really hard time with mysubjects. since i had
25、just transferred from a bilingual school, where ihad stayed for two months after arriving in the us, my english washorrible; my average grade was below c. i almost thought it impossible tolearn english. then, one day she told me she strongly believed that i wascapable of controlling my life, and i w
26、ould be just fine. she said thatshe found we were much alike: both were stubborn, kind-hearted and awise. she even said that she didnt have any worries about me, about mynot learning english. with her encouragement, i found the strength withinmyself and began to desire to work even harder. as a resu
27、lt, i soon provedher right, and at the end of the semester, i got a 3.8 average grade.today, i still keep in touch with her, and she still tells me how shebelieves in me. sometimes, id think back, and wonder how i could handleall those things if it wasnt for her encouragement and trust. could i beth
28、e person i am today? then, it struck me: what we need has always beentrust and love of others; because these things inspire us to do our best,and to live our life to its fullest.to sum up, id like to say to all of you: let us all appreciate trustand love of others and achieve our full potential in o
29、ur life!c3.8-()5 15-ordinary happpinessgood morning everyone:as we all know, happiness is something that every person is chasing. ialways try my best to find out what is the true meaning of happiness. andi think i got it last week.it was an ordinary saturday morning. i felt a little tired because of
30、the preparation for the mid-term exams. it was not long before my mothercame in with a large bunch of white roses picked from the sellers gardon.during the next few minutes, we were both busy putting them into a bigcley case. looking at the flowers, i found the dark sitting room becamebright, so did
31、 my mood, just like a person gets some fresh air when hefeels dizzy. all the feeling of boredom flew away.then i remember a poem named life could be worse, which said: for theweariness and aching muscles at the end of the day, because it means ihave been capable of working hard. for my alarm that go
32、es of in the earlyhours, because it means i am alive. and finally, for too much e-mail,because it means i have friends who are thinking of me. i learnt thathappiness is not the diamond in a necklace, nor a dream far away, itsjust your attitude towards life.if you realize it, a simple cup of cola with ice can bring you a coolsummer, for happiness is so ordinary that its right in the palm of yourhand.thank you!-?-
