八年级学生英语演讲稿

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.

can you tell us why you love this book so much?

sure. it is because the story taught us to be brave and to face the challenges and difficulties with courage. i am deeply impressed by the strength and perseverance of the little princess in the story. i have decided to learn from her from now on.

oh i see, the story sounds very good. i cannot wait to read this book as well.

we are the world ,we are the future

someone said “we are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book, whose pages are infinite”. i don’t know who wrote these words, but i’ve always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want it to be. we are all in the position of the farmers. if we plant a good seed ,we reap a good harvest. if we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all.

we are young. “how to spend the youth?” it is a meaningful question. to answer it, first i have to ask “what do you understand by the word youth?” youth is not a time of life, it’s a state of mind. it’s not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips or supple knees. it’s the matter of the will. it’s the freshness of the deep spring of life.

a poet said “to see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour. several days ago, i had a chance to listen to a lecture. i learnt a lot there. i’d like to share it with all of you. let’s show our right palms. we can see three lines that show how our love.career and life is. i have a short line of life. what about yours? i wondered whether we could see our future in this way. well, let’s make a fist. where is our future? where is our love, career, and life? tell me.yeah, it is in our hands. it is held in ourselves.

we all want the future to be better than the past. but the future can go better itself. don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened. from the past, we’ve learnt that the life is tough, but we are tougher. we’ve learnt that we can’t choose how we feel, but we can choose what about it. failure doesn’t mean you don’t have it, it does mean you should do it in a different way. failure doesn’t mean you should give up, it does mean you must try harder.

as what i said at the beginning, “we are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book, whose pages are infinite”. the past has gone. nothing we do will change it. but the future is in front of us. believe that what we give to the world, the world will give to us. and from today on, let’s be the owners of ourselves, and speak out “we are the world, we are the future.”

china, our great motherland, is developing very fast. more and more techniques are being used into our daily life. well, let's imagine what our future will be like in 50 years.

first, there will be more trees but less pollution. it's very important for us to protect our living environment. however, some people are destorying it only because they want to fullfill their selfifh purpose-to get more and more money. we are being told that it's wrong to bulid our happiness on the sufferings of our descendants. so, i think we should do something to change the present situation. and now our goverment is trying to solve this problem, and some relevent policies will come into force very soon.we could expect a bright future for our environment.

second, much more advanced technologies will be used, which will provide us much more convinence. after 50 years, we will have our own robots help us with the housework, and the life will become easier and more comfortable. when you are free, you could fly to the moon for vacation or fly rockets to the moon. everything is possible.

last but not the least, i'd like to say that we could predict the future, and i believe with our continuous efforts, all of our dreams will come true one day. do you agree with me?

let's take action now!

the cheongsam is a female dress with distinctive chinese features and enjoys a growing popularity in the international world of high fashion.

the name "cheongsam," meaning simply "long dress," entered the english vocabulary from the dialect of china's guangdong province (cantonese). in other parts of the country including beijing, however, it is known as "qipao", which has a history behind it.

when the early manchu rulers came to china proper, they organized certain people, mainly manchus, into "banners" (qi) and called them "banner people" (qiren), which then became loosely the name of all manchus. the manchu women wore normally a one-piece dress which, likewise, came to be called "qipao" or "banner dress." although the 1911 revolution toppled the rule of the qing (manchu) dynasty, the female dress survived the political change and, with later improvements, has become the traditional dress for chinese women.

easy to slip on and comfortable to wear, the cheongsam fits well the female chinese figure. its neck is high, collar closed, and its sleeves may be either short, medium or full length, depending on season and taste. the dress is buttoned on the right side, with a loose chest, a fitting waist, and slits up from the sides, all of which combine to set off the beauty of the female shape.

the cheongsam is not too complicated to make. nor does it call for too much material, for there are no accessories like belts, scarves, sashes or frills to go with it.

another beauty of the cheongsam is that, made of different materials and to varying lengths, they can be worn either on casual or formal occasions. in either case, it creates an impression of simple and quiet charm, elegance and neatness. no wonder it is so much liked by women not only of china but of foreign countries as well.

cheongsams their style gown by manchu women from restructuring, it said. is the beginning of the republic of china chinese women wear, long gown with a traditional style. generally agreed that ethnic manchu cheongsam dress is different from the "service flag", the modern cheongsam is a chinese characteristics, to meet the west and adopt western-style tailored aesthetic, and the rise in two decades on behalf of, on behalf of the fashion prevalent in three to four decades.

because of the large-scale epidemic cheongsams and propaganda films in recent years, many people, particularly those with little knowledge of history to the young people of the country cheongsams served as china's view. the view is not correct. cheongsam is a fashion, a witness of the era.