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tiankun

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[交流] 因为幽默而获奖, 第十一届外教社杯演讲比赛亚军 吴相臣 演讲视频和演讲稿 已有7人参与

前两天分享了顾秋蓓的一个演讲视频,
后面的爱立信杯改成了外教社杯的演讲比赛,我记得 吴相臣 一名来自天津师大的选手,其口语和发音在所有选手里并不出众,但凭借幽默的表达征服了评委和观众。最终获得了亚军。




Our Future: the Garden of One Flower or Many Flowers

I have a friend who just started his career as a teacher in a primary school. Weeks ago, he asked me to raise a topic for his mid-term composition test. I was curious why he chose me to give a topic, because he is a teacher himself. He said that he wanted something the students can really show their different ideas. Without thinking, I told him to let his students write about what they would do if they were given one million US dollars. My friend left with satisfaction, and I fell into my old memories.

It reminded me of my old days in primary school. We were learning to do narration in the fifth grade's Chinese class. Our teacher required us to write a composition with the topic "My Most Unforgettable Day" with our real experience.

When papers came back, half of the students wrote about the first day they came to school. The rest of the compositions were all about picking money on the streets and giving it to policemen, or helping a blind man cross the street. Of course I was among them. But I remember very clearly, that one student, only one student gave something different. He wrote about the day that he first kissed a girl. I read his composition. After all these years, I can't recite every word, but I dare to say, that even Shakespeare, may not be able to write as equally good when he was 11 years old. The composition was written out of real experience and genuine emotions. Contrary to those fake stories, it sounds real and natural. But the kid was scored zero. Our teacher thought the content was unhealthy, I'm sure you know the meaning of this Chinglish word "unhealthy".

That was 15 years ago. When you read those compositions, and you feel that half of our population is blind, so all those kids could have a chance to help a blind man cross the street, and every one of us has a hole in our pocket, so all those kids could have a chance to pick up the lost money and give it to policemen.

A few days ago, my friend sent me an e-mail of all the copies of his students' compositions. I have to say, I was sadly disillusioned.

Among those papers 40% said that they wanted to donate the money to people in poverty, so their children can go to school. The rest compositions are much more alike. Some wanted to support the panda protection project, some wanted to buy books to enlarge their knowledge. One student even said that he would like to spend his one million dollars on the effort to cure AIDS. I was more astonished to find that a ten- year-old child knew what AIDS really is.

We all have been kids, and we knew what we had once wanted. But, there was no composition about spending the money on video games, nice clothes, chocolates, ice-creams and expensive toys. Like 15 years ago, students won't tell the truth of their hearts.

It has always been our dream to open our children's hearts. We encourage them to describe their dreams, and acted as if we are ready to accept their thoughts. But the fact is that, children are scared by the zero marked on their papers. They are trained to say what we want to hear.

People compare children to flowers of tomorrow. And parents dream about the scenery that roses, tulips, daffodils flourish in the future. But down the road we are going on, in the future, or the future of future, only one kind of flower can be found. And that's the flower we like most.
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okitworks: 金币+2, thank you for telling us your opinion~more~ 2012-07-28 16:27:46
I could not agree with the writer  more...
We are tole to write something wo don't really like ...
I love English , that's why I'm here ...
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小木虫: 金币+0.5, 给个红包,谢谢回帖
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interesting and thought-provoking
我累了,身心俱疲。
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昵称让人头疼: 金币+2, 确实相当经典,值得模仿和学习呀~O(∩_∩)O~ 2012-07-28 21:40:55
前面的顾秋蓓的演讲,我们暑期学校老师专门推荐给我们来着。

就必须顶起。
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很好,学习一下人家有的单词发音
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