关于青春的话题的英语演讲（精选30篇）
Our path in life will not always be smooth. Setbacks can't be avoided. Failing an important exam, break up with boy or girl friend, or refused by a promising company, such setbacks are likely to get us down. Sometimes we fell so frustrated that we even burst into tears.
Drinkin coke is wonderful, despite the undesirble consequent hiccups. It's bitter, sour and peppery, but also sweet. And you'll even feel excited after gulping down a glass. A college experience is part of growing up. We cry, smile, fall in love, get hurt, leave, learn and then we become a better person.
University life is like drinking coke. I'm experiencing it. And I know, I enjoy it!
I like Yao Ming very much who is the idol I like most.
I like playing basketball and in my opinion, he is the best basketball player in China.
When he started to play basketball in NBA, I was so excited that I saw the news about him everyday.
When he performed well, I was really happy for him. When he did not, I hoped he could rearrange himself and do well in the next game.
What’s more, his personalities attract me as well.
He is kind-hearted and humorous. He always smiles and is kind to very body, even his opponents.
Although he does not play basketball anymore, I still like him.
I hope he can do well in other fields as well.
the august moon festival or mid-autumn festival (chinese characters above) is one of the traditional chinese holidays. it is held on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. chinese legends say that the moon is at its brightest and roundest on this day. based on the gregorian calendar, this years august moon festival will be held on september 8.
the august moon festival is often called the womens festival. the moon (chinese character on right) symbolizes elegance and beauty. while westerners worship the sun (yang or male) for its power, people in the far east admire the moon. the moon is the yin or female principle and it is a trusted friend. chinese parents often name their daughters after the moon, in hope that they will be as lovely as the moon.
Smile, how warm the word is! It can make anyone happy. And this happiness is from the bottom of heart.
It’s not like enthusiastic laughter, but just warm, makes your heart warm.
Mother’s smile is like a spring wind, so gentle when you are sad, it can make you happy again; when you fail, it can make you stand up and work hard again; when you give up, it can make you try your best again…
Smile, so easy, but also so useful.
| So, let’s learn to smile. Everyone needs others’ smile. When we give others a smile, we will feel happy, too. And maybe next time, when you need a smile, the person who received your smile will give it to you.
Let’s learn to smile often, I believe it can even make the whole warm. Living with a smile, every day will be sunshine.
Dear teachers and students
hello everyone!
The content of my speech is: how to learn more effectively.
Students, it's normal that we have a heavy burden of schoolwork every day. How to allocate learning time is particularly important.
In my opinion, Chinese is the most difficult subject to learn. It is divided into three parts: foundation, reading and composition, with a wide range of knowledge. In the basic questions, the pronunciation, grades, texts and Related words that need to be recited are the easiest to answer correctly. Such questions mainly focus on the mastery of basic knowledge. If you want to do extra-curricular problems and learn to solve problems that are slightly more difficult, such as judging sick sentences and semantic coherence. In reading questions, small reading is relatively simple, as long as you extract information from the text. In addition, we should accumulate more understanding ability after class. The composition should accumulate more good words and sentences and write faster.
Math problems are the most flexible. In the usual practice, don't memorize by rote, but learn how to solve problems. Be careful when doing questions. You must memorize all kinds of formulas. These formulas play a vital role in the exam. Usually, if you can't ask questions, you can't stay until the last time. You should dare to ask questions and pretend to understand.
English pays attention to mastering words and grammar, and exercise books are also very important. We should finish our homework carefully, memorize words and phrases, and strengthen the review of notes. Reading comprehension and filling in the blanks for the first time are extracurricular questions. We should apply what we have learned, read articles and pay attention to the form of words.
In normal study, we should pay more attention to the subjects we are not good at, but we can't ignore other courses, otherwise we will make progress.
The subjects you are good at should also be strengthened and striven for by going up a flight of stairs. Think actively and absorb more in class. When you study, you will get twice the result with half the effort. Everyone's situation is different, and the learning methods vary from person to person. But as long as you work hard, how can you get nothing?
I wish you all progress!
Thank you!
good morning ladies and gentlemen. today i’m very glad to be here with youto share my stories and opinions about reading. i love reading from the bottomof my heart. and i do learn a lot from books. i know the wonderful stories ofgreat heroes in history, secrets of nature, mysteries of ufo and our universe.to me , books are like a faithful friend, always around me , giving me enjoymentand wisdom. i remember when i was in primary school, ten or eleven years old, myfather borrowed some books from the library in his school. those were among thegreatest works of the world, including abrabian nights、the legend ofdeification, journey to the west, and the romance of the three kingdoms. thesebooks were all written in
ancient chinese characters but i tried to read the heavy books and weredeeply attracted. from then on, i spared every minute to read whatever i couldget. whenever i got a new book, i kept reading until i finished it despite timeand place. i read books even in class or just a few minutes before the exams. inmy mind, there is always an unforgettable scene: lying in bed, nervous butexcited, 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 classmatesthought i was crazy and gave me a nickname “bookworm”. so you can understand whyi 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 havebought him many books. whenever you come into my home, you can find books inevery corner. but the place where my son and i enjoy reading most is in thetoilet. so it often happens in the morning: one is in the toilet readingsomething comfortably, while another
walking outside , shouting. for my age, i like to read magazines or shortstories 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 hadso many chances to enjoy our lives. we drive rather than walking; we go onlineto chat with people we’ve never met before instead of talking to friends aroundus. but there’s always something that cannot be replaced and forgotten., such asbooks. so i will allow myself to continue the journey in the ocean of booksuntil the very end of my life.
finally, i’d like to end my speech with a great philosopher, writer andthinker, francis bacon’s famous saying: reading makes a full man. studies servefor 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。
尊敬的各位老师，亲爱的同学们：
大家好！
我是叶施云，来自502班。我呢，虽然在老师面前是一个有点胆小的女生，但是我和周边同学还是处得不错的。我们经常能互帮互助，不管是男生还是女生。除此之外，我的书法也写得不错，在校内和校外都学了好几年的字，而且考出了六级，今年准备冲刺7级。我觉得，这对于今后的帮助应该是非常大的。
在英语方面，我是很有自信的，我的每次成绩最少能达到90分以上。另外，我还在外面学了三年多的英语，目前已经升到新概念1—2了。这对于我的视、听、说水平是非常重要的，也大大增加了我的词汇量。每次默写单词，我几乎都能写全对。就在上一次第一单元所有单词默写中，三颗星（最高也是三颗星）呢。在家中，我都会花上25分钟左右的时间来流利地朗读课文。有空时我还会看带有英文的书，爸爸说这能提高我的英语水平。遇到不懂的还可以翻开英文字典查看注释。以上几点，大大地增强了我的语法知识。
对于作业，我都是很及时地上交，回到家后只有朗读课文就行了。有时看到课代表迟迟没有发本子时或组织同学听写单词时，总会一个劲儿地催他。
如果我当上了英语课代表，一定会仔细检查同学上交作业中的错误，让他们及时改正。也会把他们不准确的发音，尽我所能地纠正。同学遇到不理解的阅读题目，我也会在确定答案的情况下，跟他们进行分析。总之，我会配合各项工作，尽到我的职责，并及时地搬发本子，和老师报告上交作业的情况。
假如我没当上英语课代表，我也不会灰心。因为那就说明还有很多比我更优秀的人，我要更加严格地约束自己，让自己更加出类拔萃，争取“更上一层楼！”
我相信我一定能胜任的！请大家给我一次机会吧！
我的演讲完毕，谢谢大家！
Hello, everyone.Cuju has a history of over two thousand years.Cuju started from Chunqiu Period.In Han dynasty, cuju wasn’t only a competition, but also a kind of performance.In Tang dynasty, a large number of people were fond of cuju. What’s more , to some grils, cuju was an interesting game.At the same time, the Japanese and Korean learnt cuju from China .In the 1600s, cuju was transmitted to Europe by Arabian, it’s in England that cuju was replaced by modern football.Unfortunately, nobody played cuju any longer in Qing dynasty.Now, cuju is protected as a kind of culture heritage of China .
On July 15th, 20__ ,the FIFA President Mr.Blatter announced to the world “Football comes from China’’. Zibo, Shandong is considered as the home of football.
The Britain is the hometown of modern football. In the 18th century, some soldiers and poor workers began to play a kind of sports by kicking a ball filled of fur and leather(皮革), soon, the sport called football became famous all a round the Europe.
Today football is the most popular sports in the word. More than 4,000,000,000 of football fans around the world.In Europe people watch football matchs, talk about football player and enjoy play football matches itself. Football is not only a kind of sport but also a part of daily life. Even some famous people such as politics and stars love football play it.
At the same time, football has become a tool of earning money and gaining glory. Nowadays, more and more people make a living by football, including agents. players and proprietors(经营者）.Football could create great economic benefit.Some great football associations like the FIFA ,UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE,can influence the whole football world and make great decision which might be powerful.
Some football clubs in England, Italy and Spain, France,are more than a kind of club.They have the greatest players and coaches in the world,and they also have the biggest groups of football fans and a long history.Sometimes, a club could even become a faith,or a party.
Nou camp is the home field of FCB(Football Club of Barcelona).Founded in 22nd October 1899,Football Club of Barcalona is a club that not only competes in a sporting sense on the field of play,but also beats the rhythm of its people’s concern every day.
FC Barcelona is “more than a club” in Spain because it is the sports club that most represents the country and is also one of its greatest ambassadors. Also, for different reasons, FC Barcelona is “more than a club” for many people living elsewhere in Spain, who see Bar?a as a staunch defender of democratic rights and freedom.
In 20__,barcelona won all the six cups in the football field of Spain,European and even the world.
贝利 During his playing days Pelé was for a period the best paid athlete in the world.He is the most successful League goal scorer in the world with 541 League goals.In total Pelé scored 1281 goals in 1363 games.[ During his career, he became
known as "The Black Pearl" (Pérola Negra), "The King of Football" (O Rei do Futebol), "The King Pelé" (O Rei Pelé) or simply "The King" (O Rei).
马拉多纳 Many experts, football critics, former players, current players and football fans in general consider Maradona to be the greatest football player of all time.He was joint FIFA Player of the 20th Century with Pele。
He played in four FIFA World Cup tournaments, including the 1986 tournament, where he captained Argentina and
led them to their victory over West Germany in the final, winning the Golden Ball award as the tournaments best player. In that same tournaments quarterfinal round, he scored both goals in a 2–1 victory over England that entered football history, though for two different reasons. The first goal was via an unpenalized handball known as the "Hand of God", while the second goal followed a 60 m (66 yd) dribble past five England players, voted "The Goal of the Century" by FIFA voters in 20__
Football is a sport. Through sports, we can become more stronger,and smarter.However ,football has gone beyond a sport. Football heal the wound. War could destroy a country, but never a football dream.
In some poor countries,football is the only joy which the children could afford.
Sometimes, football is violent, sometimes, football can be complicated , sometimes, football hurts.But no matter how it transfer , it still help people believe themselves , help people re-find their dreams. The most important , football wound be a part of life forever.
Let us watch a video about fun scene on the pitch.
Iraq won the 20__ Asian Cup.
Nothing is difficult if you put your heart on it. Nothing is easy if you don’t try your best.
We often hear people say, “Never give up.” This can be encouraging words and words of determination. A person who believes in them will keep trying to reach his goal no matter how many times he fails. In my opinion, the quality of determination to succeed is an important one to have. Therefore, I believe that we should never give up.
One reason is that if we give up too easily, we will rarely achieve anything. It is not unusual for us to fail in our first attempt at something new, so we should not feel discouraged and should try again. Besides, if we always give up when we fail, we will not be able to develop new skills and grow as people. Another reason we should never give up is that we can learn from our mistakes only if we make a new effort. If we do not try again, the lesson we have learned is wasted. Finally, we should never give up because as we work to reach our goals, we develop confidence, and this confidence can help us succeed in other areas of our lives.
Probably the greatest example of persistence is Abraham Lincoln. Born into poverty, Lincoln was faced with defeat throughout his life. He lost eight elections, twice failed in business and suffered a nervous breakdown.
He could have quit many times - but he didn't and because he didn't quit, he became one of the greatest presidents in the history of our country.
Lincoln was a champion and he never gave up.
In short, it is important that we don’t give up when working for our goals. Whether we succeed in the end or not, we will learn something, and what we learn will help us to become better, more confident people. Furthermore, if we give up, we have no chance of attaining our goals, but if we keep trying, there is always a chance that we will succeed one day.Thank you very much!
如果你把你的心脏上没有什么是困难的。没有什么是容易的，如果你不尝试你最好的。
我们经常听到人们说：“永远不要放弃。”这可以鼓励决心的词与词。一个人谁相信他们将继续努力，不管经历多少次失败，达到到他的目标。在我看来，有决心的质量成功是有一个重要的之一。因此，我认为我们应该永不放弃。
原因之一是，如果我们太轻易放弃，就几乎无法完成任何事。这是很平常的我们在我们的一些新的第一次尝试失败了，所以我们不应感到气馁，应该再试一次。此外，如果我们总是放弃当我们失败，我们将无法发展新的技能和成长的人。另外一个原因，我们不应该放弃的是，我们可以从我们的错误中吸取教训，只有我们作出新的努力。如果我们不再试一次，我们吸取的教训是浪费。最后，我们应该永不放弃，因为当我们努力达到我们的目标，我们就会培养出自信，而这种自信将有助于我们在生活的其他领域中获得成功。
大概持续性的最大的例子就是林肯。出生在贫困家庭，林肯面临着他一生的失败。他输八大选，两次经商失败，并遭受了神经衰弱。
他可以放弃很多次 - 但他并没有因为他没有放弃，他成为我国历史上最伟大的总统之一。
林肯是一个冠军，他从来没有放弃过。
总之，这是我们努力追求目标时，不放弃是很重要的。无论我们最终还是没有成功，我们都会学到一些东西，而我们学什么会帮助我们变得更好，更有自信的人。此外，如果我们放弃，我们没有机会实现我们的目标，但如果我们继续努力，总有一个机会，我们会有成功的.非常感谢!
In China, almost every family has TV set in their house. Television has made great contribution to people’s daily lives and children’s education. Some people even think that television is one of the greatest inventions in the world.
But there is a good side and a bad side to everything and that includes the television.
On one hand, TV is a powerful educational tool that through it people know what is happening in the rest of the world. Because of television, people begin to understand different cultures and current affairs.
They know about the things they never knew before, they create their own opinions and form their sense of worth. The TV opens a brand-new door for them to explore the things they want to know. Many people may go traveling due to watch the beautiful scenes in TV.
On the other hand, some people may find them addicted to television, especially the young people.
They spend most of their free time watching TV programs instead of playing outside with their peers.
In this case, the children may lack of the ability of communicate effectively with others.
TV makes them isolated. What’ more, sometimes the TV programs may contain se-xual scenes or bloody scenes that not suitable for children to watch.
This will cause negative effects on them.
To sum up, I think television has both advantages and disadvantages, people should find a balance between it. Make the most use of it, don’t be the salves of it.
With the growing awareness of healthy eating， more and more people now are paying more attention to the importance of healthy diet and an active life。 But at the same time， a growing unrest over food safety in the China has caught everyone’s concern。
When it es to the food safety incidents， especially 20__ Chinese milk scandal， every consumer has much anger to pour upon them。 In September 20__， a fresh outbreak of kidney disease occurred， due to baby formula contaminated by melamine。 Three babies died and over 6，000 were made sick by the tainted formula。 The supplier of the milk， Sanlu Group， is a name brand and is a major player in the industry in China。 The pany is said to have known of the problem for months， but claims the contaminant came from milk suppliers。
Who should be main responsible for these serious incidents like milk scandal? On one hand， plex China’s food regulations should shoulder part duties。 We should realized its monitoring system can be unresponsive， and the government departments that oversee and enforce policies have overlapping and often ambiguous duties。 On the other， food producers and suppliers lack deserved responsibility for consumers! What they cares is only their own interest and profit maximization。
In my opinion ，everyone involved in it should set up a high responsibility for others， law related should be passed and carried out。 Only in this way can we e by a healthy eating and a harmonious world。
What is a great book? There is no end to the making of books. Nor doesthere seem to be any end to the making lists of great books. There has always bemore books than one could read. You can be happy at the fact that the number ofthat is relatively small.
However,today,people usually leave it in the library. According to thenational reading survey issued by The China Academy of Press and Publication, in20__, 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 youinsist on reading great books. In order to change the situation ,we must takeactions to read great books.
In Adler’s essay of What is A Great Book, he explain why we should readgreat books. I conclude it as follows.
First,great books are the most readable. They will not let you down ,if youread them well. The have more ideas per page than most books in the theirentirety. This is why you can read a great book over and over again and neverexhaust it contents.
Second ,great books are always contemporary,in contrast to the books wecalled contemporary,because they are currently popular ,last for a year ortow,or ten at most. You may probably can not recall the names of many earlierbest sellers,and you may probably would not be interest in reading them. But thegreat are never out modeled by the movement of thought or the shifting winds ofopinion .
Third ,great books are the most instructive. This follows the fact thatthey are original communications. They contain what cannot be found in otherbooks. Whether you ultimately agree or disagree what they say. They are theprimary 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 torealize you reading dream.
Firstly,you can begin with a interesting novel. You will be attracted bythe figures,the plots .Than ,after reading a lot of books ,you may be get into ahabit 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 greatadvantage of it. Of course ,it is a better choice to buy great books. Collectingbooks is a enjoyable thing,at least for me. So,reading great books. The newworld is coming.
英文演讲稿结尾
结尾：OK,thank you for listening,that's all.(好了，谢谢各位的聆听，我的演讲结束了。)我参加过很多英语比赛，而这个是比较常用的，也能体现出你的修养，
2.……honorable judges,distinguished guests,ladies and gentlemen,good evening!I feel really honored to stand here and make a speech.today I'm going to look together with you into this question:……
尊敬的评委，尊贵的来宾，女士们，先生们，大家晚上好!能够站在这里进行演说，我感到十分荣幸。今天我将和大家一起分享……
3.Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the English Speaking Competition for ……First of all, please allow me to introduce myself 女士们，先生们，大家晚上好!欢迎来到………… 首先，请允许我介绍一下自己。
结束语
-In conclusion, I'd like to…
-I'd like to finish by…
-Finally…
-By way of conclusion…
-I hope I have made myself understood
-I hope you have found this useful
-I hope this has given you some idea/clear idea/an outline of…
-Let me end by saying…
-That, then was all I had to say on…
-That concludes our presentation…
-I hope I've managed to give you a clearer picture of…
-If there are any questions, I'd be delighted to…
-Thank you for your attention…
-Let's break for a coffee at this point
-I am afraid that the clock is against us, so we had better stop here
-You have been a very attentive audience---thank you
My major is . My job is to discover or create new drugs for many diseases like cancer. You know that laboratory is the place where miracles happen. Believe it or not. What I do can save millions of people’s lives. For a long time, what challenges me is how to commercialize research. You come up with a great idea, but moving that new discovery from theory to practice or from the lab to the marketplace, that's really a big job. That’s what we should focus on. We need to act with a sense of urgency-to study and work and create as if the fate of the country depends on us-because it does. It depends on us. Thank you!
Our new president Xi Jinping came up with the dream of the Chinese nation's rejuvenation on December 29, 20xx. He said: the Chinese dream is a dream of national strength prosperity and people's happiness. Our people have an ardent love for life. They wish to have better education, more stable jobs, more income, greater social security , better medical and health care, improved housing conditions and better environment,They want their children to grow well, have ideal jobs and lead a more enjoyable life. To meet their desire for a happy life is our mission."
2He also expounded his views of realizing
our great dream. He said : To realize the dream, China must take the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The country must also foster the Chinese spirit,in which patriotism and the spirit of reform and innovation play a core role, and unite 1.3 billion people of all ethnicities into a great source of strength.
3I always ask myself what
can I do for our great Chinese dream ? As we all know that the wiser the youths are ,the wiser the nation will be;the wealthier the youths are ,the wealthier the nation will be;the stronger the youths are ,the stronger the nation
will be. Here the word wealthy means: enriching our knowledge reserve. As a new generation of science, every one here shouldering the great historical mission of ma-ki-ng china powerful and strong. You may say that this may exaggerate our role, but I want to say you are wrong. If I am a little screw our great dream may be a multifunction and complex machine. Through this example I just want to say I am very tiny but I am indispensable .
I believe that as long as all of our university students unite together and perform our own functions that study hard in school and work hard after we graduating from university . we must be able to achieve our great dream meanwhile enrich ourselves unwittingly!
President Xi also said:We are closer than in any other time of history to the goal of rejuvenating the Chinese nation. We are more confident and capable of achieving this goal than in any other period of history,"
lets us unite together to realize Chinese nation's great rejuvenation to struggle!
A good teacher-student relationship will make learning enjoyable and interesting for the students and teaching worthwhile for a set up a good teacher-student relationship , a teccher’s behaviour is especially important teacher should motivate the students so that they would like to learn . a good teacher should be patient , frily and strict. remember not to encourage students by pushing or punishing them g too frily may cause students to become lazy and stop working hard. on the other hand , being too strict may frighten students. so a teacher should aviod going to extremes in treating his or her students the demand for the teachers who should take resposibilities for his or her job should encourage students to think indepently and learn to study by themselves and also make his lessons lively and interesting. however, as for the students , they should always show respect for their teachers and their work ents should be eager to learn and willing to put their heart into their study. it’s significant for students to listen to their teccher attentively in class and it’s more important to learn to come up to questions and work out problems in new ways.
in conclusion , a good teacher-student relationship can be mutually beneficial students gain knowledge eagerly and enjoyably and the teacher gains satisfaction his or her job.
thank you .
It have been discussed for a long time that how to deal with the uncivilized behaviors during the travel, such as write on the place of historic interests, or claim to old trees. This kind of things happened in China more often than any other countries. What can we do to prevent those actions? Though we have advocate education of the tourists for years, the situation was not better than be imagined. In my opinion, we still have to encourage the education of our tourists, but with some change. For example, we shouldnot only disseminate Don t Do Sth. , but also with the reason and an explanation that it is not cool to sign names or words everywhere, in the contrary, we have to ashamed of that. Make a comparison between foreigners and us can also increase our consciousness.
它已经讨论了很长一段时间,如何处理在旅游不文明行为,如写在历史的地方利益,或声称老树。这种事情经常发生在中国比其他任何国家。我们可以做些什么来阻止这些行为呢?虽然我们多年来提倡教育游客,情况并不比被想象。在我看来,我们仍然需要鼓励的教育我们的游客,但有一些改变。例如,我们不应该只传播不做某事,但也和一个解释的原因是不酷签署名称或字无处不在,相反,我们必须感到羞愧。外国人之间做个比较,我们还可以增加我们的意识。
爱因斯坦曾经说过：“我认为，对于一切来说，只有热爱才是最好的老师，他远远的超过了责任感。”一个人不论从事什么行业，首先必须热爱自己的职业。只有这样他才会全心全意的投入。而热爱自己职业的动力在于能在工作中得到快乐。
陶行知先生曾对教师职业特征做过这样的分析：教育者应当知道教育是无名无利没有尊荣的事，纯系服务的机会，贡献的机会。而无丝毫名利尊荣可言。现代的教师为适应当前社会的迅速变化，面临许多挑战，如知识结构的更新，教学技术的改进，新型教学手段的尝试，日益难以应付的杂事……为应付这些变化，教师必须付出代价，而付出的代价往往无法获得可见的收益。正因为如此，教师更倾向于从社会地位上而非经济地位上来获得尊严，这也是教师与其他许多职业不同的地方，教师在很大程度上是将自己的精神世界作为职业资源的，并不以实际的可被清点的收益来取胜。那么我们就更应该在工作中寻找快乐。 首先、爱岗敬业是乐教勤业的动力源泉。
教师只有在爱岗敬业，把学校教育工作的发展、国家教育事业的兴旺和自己命运紧密联系在一起的精神指导下，兢兢业业，勤于奉献，淡泊名利，默默的耕耘在三尺讲台之上，而且以苦为乐，甘于寂寞，勤勤恳恳，才能领悟从师的乐趣，才能以从师为荣，以师为自豪。在“爱岗敬业”这种精神支配下，教师也不会视平凡的工作为平凡，不会视琐碎的工作为琐碎，而是会认真对待教育，教学的过程的每一个环节，于细微处显精神，于小事上下。
distinguished leaders, young friends:
hello, everyone! my name is xu rong, i have to speak on the theme "youthdance."
the healthy growth of young people between the well-being of millions ofhouseholds and the country's future development. to achieve the education goalof modernization of the proposed for educators pointed out the direction, theyoung workers in the first assault team should of course,adhere topeople-oriented theory. ministry of education, focus attention oninfrastructure, regulate all kinds of work systems of the time, we shouldincrease the team of cadres of management and service efforts. in order to fullymobilize the enthusiasm of the team of cadres, but also developed a completesystem for quantification of grassroots work, establish and perfect a reasonablean effective incentive mechanism; in order to improve our overall quality ofcadres and skills, the team held a contest to run computer applications, englishspoken training courses, and organizing people to learn from advanced areas tobroaden their horizons in order to understand the team of cadres workingconditions in schools, the ministry of education has traveled a number ofprimary and secondary schools to conduct research, listen to the views of theschool party and government leaders to make school leadership cadres receiveattention and guidance of the ministry of education to carry out a variety ofpractical activities to actively lead the majority of young teachers work hardto become qualified personnel and for them to put up the cast talent stage, asingle sail swaying, after numerous twists and turns arrived in port, if thereis wind, a hand, and naturally smooth arrival and guide students to strive toexcel, need to nazhen "wind" - teacher. teachers should be ideological and moraleducation, culture education and the needs of students organically combiningvarious activities for the students or students to carry out their own. forexample: school quiz competitions, essay contests, ke benju performances andother activities to enable students to give full play to their talents. teachersrush toil, in order to that will enable students to continue to draw nutrients,to help them grow up healthily and become pillars of the country before.
for all students in general education, the government departments have alsonot forget those who cared about the difficulties of single-parent children,they may have a normal child life unimaginable burden and psychological stress.ministry of education has a strong seed spread in national blossom everywhere,pouring a lot to overcome difficulties and to exert themselves in a typical,these seeds do not make the child a strong anti-up, is even more so the parentsget stronger, and with the sincere to pay for the children in exchange for ahappy to help each child out of the shadows, healthy growth.in the majority ofthe young communist league students, but few people know the words meaning. inthe red of the season, we haveushered in one another "54", which provides anopportunity for generations of young people to whom the surging blood thefestival, followed by may 5th is our young people have engraved in our mindsevery day. may 5, 1922, the communist youth league held its first nationalcongress, which is also a sign forever keep company with young people, alwaysput the motherland the fate and self-development closely linked to "chineseyouth organization of the proletariat," was established. history will foreverremember this day - may 4, 1999, china's youth will be "patriotic" was shockedto write in their own big flag. they spared no efforts in the spirit of deathhave awakened the slumbering nation, but also kindled hope of the nation withthe blood and heroic sons and daughters of the youth compose a song of eternalsong of youth, loud and enlightening group song sung so far.
"54" movement brought me strong, it shook me. and sometimes i askthemselves "54" what is it in the end the spirit of what it means today, howmany times i have to explore the, recalling the heroic history of pottery in thetaste of it filled with suffering and tears, listening to the call of the bleak.shoulong those past events, such as the twenty-first century chest, i have ataste of that majestic momentum.
i have asked myself countless times, today's so-called "fourth" spirit oreighty years ago the "54" spirit do today, "54" or a spirit of the motherland,the people unlimited sincerity, our community and studying history for theirdevotion, the spirit of do change it will change over time do whatever theoutcome, we, as the twenty-first century, young people, in this decade, thelooking into the new century, we remember the suffering of the last century thechinese nation and the revolution difficult, we should cherish today's harvest,so-called "a sub - hard, no gain. "our twenty-first century, young people, butalso should be a high sense of mission, responsibility, a sense of ecstasy, andthe sincere work of flu, 54 inheritance of traditional spirit of the 54 sportingspirit to flourish, for the motherland's socialist presented a contribution tothe building. let us burn with passion for the years up to youth dance bar!
thank you!
in 1999 , i was born, unluckily, i got the very serious pneumonia and suffered a lot. my mother said: ‘until now she still remembers my smiling face with tears on it. she told me that when i grow up, i should be a strong-minded and optimistic girl. during the ten years, i have been experiencing a lot with my country
in , china no. 5 spaceship was successfully launched发射into space! in yangliwei’s hometown, we took a photo. you can see on my t-shirt, it is written ‘what is love’ at that time, i didn’t quite understand the sentence, but with the time passing, i begin to know its meaning.
in , i went to the primary school, since then i started a very important step in my life. in , i worked hard and got my first
certificate —cambridge english level 1 with the score of 14 owing that it was , there were a great number of things in this year. first, the olympic games were successfully held in our country. second, i got the first prize in hainxin cup competition. but there was a bad thing--the earthquake in wenchuan, in the disaster, we felt our country’s love.
now it is , i’m growing up with country, little by little i
understand what love is—love is to help other people and help myself!
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1999年，我的祖国建国50周年，我出生了。我一出生就得了新生儿肺炎，每天不停地输液治疗，妈妈说，到现在都清楚地记得我被护士抱出来时脸上挂着眼泪还在笑着的那张小脸，她说我长大以后应该是个坚强而且乐观的人。今年我10岁了，我和祖国一起经历了许许多多
XX年我国第一艘载人飞船“神舟”五号发射成功!爸爸妈妈带着我来到航天英雄杨立伟的.故乡——绥中拍了照片。我的t恤上写着what is love当时我还不太明白这句话的意思，随着时间的流逝我越来越懂得这句话的含义XX年，我上小学了，我背着书包去上学，从此迈开了我人生关键的一步!XX年我生活中发生了一件大事情，我努力学习以14个盾牌的成绩得到了剑桥一级证书。这是我得到的第一张证书。
XX年，这一年的事情实在太多了!首先是奥运会，我的祖国成功举办了北京奥运会，我参加了第六届海心杯英语口语大赛，获得了小学乙组一等奖。可是，汶川地震了，我们深切感受到祖国的爱。
今年是XX年,我和祖国一起成长，渐渐我懂得了什么是爱，爱就是努力去造福他人和自己!
The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like Christmas in the West.
Waking up on New Year, everybody dresses up. First they extend greetings to their parents. Then each child will get money as a New Year gift, wrapped up in red paper. People in northern China will eat jiaozi, or dumplings, for breakfast, as they think "jiaozi" in sound means "bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new".
That Chinese people pay more attention to be polite,while it is different from other countries .And chinese culture is brilliant and they know how to use a brush to write
Now dragon is the symbol of the whole Chinese people.
Dragon is a animal worshipped by the Chinese people from the time immemorial. But what is it? No one knows.
Some people think that the Yanzi crocodile is the archetype of the dragon. However, most people hold that dragon is a combination of many animals. And the abilities of those animals have been collected to it. Wang Chong, once pointed that the horn of dragon liked deers one, the
when we are chatting with our friends happily, suddenly if we are talkingabout the awkward topic, we need to do something to change this situation, whatare we gonna do? the answer is using your humor to make things seem easy, andthen your friends won’t take your awkward topic seriously. humor is veryimportant, it can adjust the atmosphere, making things work easily. life needshumor, without humor, life would be boring. foreign people like to make friendswith humorous people, they can feel relax when they are chatting, while mostchinese people are always taking things too seriously. i like to make friendswith humorous guys, they make me feel life is easy, and we should positive aboutlife.
当我们和朋友聊得很开心的时候，突然如果我们聊到很尴尬的话题，需要做一些事情来改变情形，我们该怎么做呢?答案是使用你的幽默来让事情看起来轻松些，然后你的朋友就不会把你尴尬的话题当真。幽默很重要，它可以调整氛围，让事情更好地运行。生活需要幽默，没有幽默，生活就会很无聊。外国人喜欢和幽默的人交朋友，他们聊天的时候可以感到很轻松自在，然而大部分中国人总是把事情看得很正式。我喜欢和幽默的人交朋友，他们让我觉得自由，对生活要积极。
My dear friends,
Every one of us, rich or poor, should at least have one or two good friends. My friends will listen to me when I want to speak, will wipe my eyes when I cry, will take care of me when I am sick, and my friends will go together with me side by side through this journey of life.
Friendship is a kind of treasure in our lives. It is actually like a bottle of wine, the longer it is kept, the sweeter it will be. It is also like a cup of tea. When we are thirsty, it will be our best choice, but when we have enough time to enjoy ourselves, it is also the most fragrant drink.
All of us have to spare some time for personal lives. We have to find the chance to express our emotion and love. When staying with our friends, we can release ourselves completely. We can do whatever we want, we can laugh together, talk together, and even cry to-gether. I should say that being together with our best friends is the most wonderful moment of our lives.
As we know, we would feel lonely if we didn't even have a friend. But it doesn't mean we could depend on our friends all the time. There is a famous motto saying that “A friend is like a quilt with cotton wadding, but the real thing that keeps you warm is your own temperature.” It is really true. We have to work hard together with our friends, encourage each other and help each other. When we receive love and friendship, we should repay as much as we can.
Finally, let's pray together now that one day, all of us could find the person we want to find, and could enjoy a real beautiful friendship in our lives. Let's pray the flower of friendship be-tween our friends and us would always bloom brightly in our hearts
Ladies and Gentlemen：
Growth, so that everything becomes taken by surprise, I stood clear that, called the threshold, while the pure juvenile, adult side of the vicissitudes of life, some at a loss and what to do, I know that when their children have gone through the aryl when the grass to meet the many people I write about the so-called "rainy season."
The epic life opened a new chapter.
Growing, when we began to pure self-integration into the alien society, growing pains and pressures will not become free in early. And our lives in the constant subject of annoyance to overcome and resolve in one day change the world, the growth of stereotypes.
Growth, the most desire is that with people, the most trouble is to get along with others. When I entered this class, an unfamiliar environment for I am depressed, terrified. And High, in my doubt came to me ... ...
Many nights, I dreamed of and one of the students had a wonderful time spent together. More thoughts, the more his heart is closer lock. Thus, isolation and loneliness, like a thief just like the volatility. To get up that morning, the dizziness. Roommate to see me look bad, with concern, said: "Never, right?" I shook his head, they see nothing, I said, no longer speak. But I can see their eyes for a long time in good faith and fraternity. Later, the headache was not a person to leave the teacher, went to the clinic, the doctor said that in a cold,吊针fight. Looked at the syrup bottle in a drop into the my body, I feel very sad.
Looking at the road outside the yellow lights, helplessness and loneliness of the body I occupy. Suddenly recall a time when illness, friends of the deep feeling anxious face, and concern about the words, but it all seems more and more distant from me, and all are increasingly blurred.
I do not know how long after, a sudden I can not help but the wind caught pitched battle. Then, I see a Blur full Zhang's face, that they, my friends room. They seem to have the face of the winds because the wind has become clear, Smart.
I am full of psychological warmth. I know that in my heart the moment before locking the door, and their greetings and laughter as warm.
Now, I found their advantages: some humorous, some wisdom, it was moderate, it was good, but more importantly, I found that this new focus in the same unity, and fraternity.
Now I'm re-learned how to exchange, learn how to communicate, more importantly, learned how to grow.
Met with high non-butterfly wings, butterfly seen just dance, but we can not ex Meiyan forget the origin of the butterfly. The suffering there is no hard and painful struggle and waiting, how can a shell at the time of amazing wings?
Growth is the pain in the United States, but also the well-being.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen:
When I was in the primary school, I have a dream. I want to invent a device which could bring you from one place to another in no time at all. When I was in the secondary school, my dream was to study in my ideal university. And when eventually I got into the university, my dream was to graduate.
How pathetic! When we grow up, we dream less and become more realistic. Why? Why do we have to change our dreams, so, so in order to let it be
Ladies and gentlemen, the reality is not real. It is a barrier keeping us from all the possible fantasies. Flying, for example, had been a dream to mankind for thousands of years. A hundred years ago,
People say that our future is a battle between the reality and our dreams. And if, unfortunately, Mr. Reality wins this war, then I see no future of mankind at all. AIDS will never be curable as this IS the reality; People living in the undeveloped countries will suffer from starvation forever as this IS the reality; 4)Disputes among different countries would never be settled as this misunderstandings and intolerance IS the reality.
Ladies and gentlemen, how many of you have a dream of being able to make a lot of money? Please raise your hands. Oh, quite a number of you! Actually, ladies and gentlemen, this is not a dream, but a task. Every one of us has to make a living, right? Anyway I hope your task will be accomplished. How many of you think that you have already fulfilled your dream and that you don't dream anymore? Dear 5)adjudicators, what do you think? C.S. Lewis once said,
Now that I am a university student, my goal is to graduate with excellences. But at the same time, I have a dream deeply rooted in our future. One day, people living in the areas now 6)sweltering with the horror of wars will be able to sit with their families and enjoy their every moment. One day, people from the rich countries are willing to share what they have with those from the poor countries
and those from the poor countries will eventually be able to make their own happy living themselves. One day, different cultures in this age of globalization will coexist with tolerance and the unfriendly confrontations among them will be 7)eliminated. One day, the globe will share the dream with me and we will all contribute to making our dream come true. One day, our dream will defeat the reality!
Thank you very much.
我们的未来:梦想与现实之间的斗争
下午好,女士们,先生们:
当我在小学,我有一个梦想。我想发明一种装置可以带给你从一个地方到另一个在任何时间。当我在中学时,我的梦想是在我理想的大学学习。最终,当我进入大学,我的梦想是毕业。
多么可怜啊!当我们长大,我们的梦想越来越变得更为现实。为什么?为什么我们必须改变我们的梦想,所以,为了让它
女士们,先生们,现实是不真实的。这是一个障碍阻止我们所有可能的幻想。飞行,例如,几千年来一直是人类的梦想。一百年前,
人们说我们的未来是我们的梦想和现实之间的战斗。如果,不幸的是,现实先生赢了这场战争,那么我没有看到人类的未来。艾滋病不会治愈,因为这是现实,人们生活在不发达国家将永远遭受饥饿,因为这是事实;4)不同国家之间的争端不会解决这个误解和不宽容的现实。
女士们,先生们,你们中有多少人有一个梦想能赚很多钱吗?请举起你的手。哦,相当多的你!事实上,女士们,先生们,这不是一个梦想,但一个任务。我们每个人必须谋生,对吧?不管怎样,我希望你的任务会完成。你们中有多少人认为你已经实现了你的梦想,你没有梦想吗?亲爱的5)退休审核人员,你认为呢?C.S.刘易斯曾经说过,
现在我是一名大学生,我的目标是毕业与优点。但与此同时,我有一个梦想深深扎根于我们的未来。一天,人们现在生活的地区6)闷热的恐怖战争能够和家人坐在一起,享受每一刻。有一天,人们从富裕国家愿意分享他们与贫穷国家
和那些来自贫困国家将最终能够让自己的快乐生活。一天,不同的文化在这个全球化的时代将共存,宽容和它们之间的不友好的对抗将7)消除。总有一天,世界会与我分享的梦想,我们都将有助于使我们的梦想成真。总有一天,我们的梦想会打败现实!
非常感谢。
a word that change the world
at thebottom of your heart, cry out freedom
about 4700 years ago，our ancestor huangdi created a new nation,in eastern asia, from the qin unification to therevolution led by sun yat-sen in 1911,it has appeared a total of 83 chinese dynasties。
1949, i think it is a special year that the people could never forget。japan and germany have announced failure to the world. so i have questions.
butin 5,000 years, what makes china change,
in1945、what made the fascist fail
inthe long time of the war，what supported the people to fight the dark。i thinkthe answer is a belief，a power which named freedom，freedom is a spiritual called hope, is a free spirit called resistance. but today，i want to know what the meaning it is for our young people?
eighty years ago, someone taught young: " sacrificing your personal freedom is to seek free for your country!"but then，a person mrhu shih had told them: " fighting your personal freedom is the national freedom struggle！, fighting foryour free personality, is the free for the country! "but today, wehave forget it。when we play basketball in the school yard，when we see a film at home, what do you think？, or“we are still young？”"there is have more time"ifso，we have given up the chance to fight freedom for yourself。
a film 《a brave heart》
william wallace said: fight and you may die, run and you'll live. at least a while. and dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from now to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell your enemies that they can take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom?!as we are young，i think the world is a big stage，wetakethe stage，wemust tryourbest to show us no matter whathappened。yes, everyonewill die, but not everyone really lives. do you really live, oryou will die alone in the end of your life. so now, please don’t wait, please don’t waste the valuable time.
please fight for your dream, please order your ideals, and from the bottom of your heart , please cry out "freedom".
Every parents is very fond of his children, my parents is not exceptionalalso. My thing has my parental care a lot of, among them two things, of my for along time imprint in the heart. Once, I and father go into the street shop, thething on the street is too much really,
I am absorbed in skipping repeatedly belt jump ground edge walks along anedge to look, which still consider the car on the side! Abrupt, an a sudden bigstride forward develops father to pull me toward the side, I am tooting themouth, blame father grouchily.
Father tells me: "A moment ago on the side had sailed an autocycle, if youreturn the past 2 centimeters, your small order with respect to one cannot sayfor sure. " at this moment, I feel father is so great, tear is abrupt anexcessive is full my orbit. relatively father loves darkly then, maternal loveappears particularly meticulous, warm.
when i was nine years old i went off to summer camp for the first time. and my mother packed me a suitcase full of books, which to me seemed like a perfectly natural thing to do. because in my family, reading was the primary group activity. and this might sound antisocial to you, but for us it was really just a different way of being social. you have the animal warmth of your family sitting right next to you, but you are also free to go roaming around the adventureland inside your own mind. and i had this idea that camp was going to be just like this, but better. (laughter) i had a vision of 10 girls sitting in a cabin cozily reading books in their matching nightgowns.
(laughter)
“'i live 17 miles from here.' i replied. 'my car could have broken down anywhere along the freeway. it didn't. instead, it broke down in the perfect place: off the freeway, within walking distance of here. i'm still able to teach my class, and i've been able to arrange for the tow truck to meet me after class. if my car was meant to break down today, it couldn't have been arranged in a more convenient fashion.'
the secretary's eyes opened wide, and then she smiled. i smiled back and headed for class.“ so ended my story.
i scanned the sixty faces in my economics class at unlv. despite the early hour, no one seemed to be asleep. somehow, my story had touched them. or maybe it wasn't the story at all. in fact, it had all started with a student's observation that i was cheerful.
deepak chopra has quoted an indian wise man as saying, “who you are speaks louder to me than anything you can say.“ i suppose it must be so.
camp was more like a keg party without any alcohol. and on the very first day our counselor gathered us all together and she taught us a cheer that she said we would be doing every day for the rest of the summer to instill camp spirit. and it went like this: “r-o-w-d-i-e, that's the way we spell rowdie. rowdie, rowdie, let's get rowdie.“ yeah. so i couldn't figure out for the life of me why we were supposed to be so rowdy, or why we had to spell this word incorrectly. (laughter) but i recited a cheer. i recited a cheer along with everybody else. i did my best. and i just waited for the time that i could go off and read my books.
My Family
Everyone has a family.We live in it and feel very warm.There are three persons in my family,my mother,father and I.We live together very happily and there are many interesting stories about my family.
My father is a hard-working man.He works as a barber.
My mother is a woman with a bad memory.She always does a lot of housework,but sometimes she makes mistakes out of carelessness.For example,one day,she washed clothes in the washer,after the washer finished the work,she found she hadn't filled the washer with water.
Now let me tell you a funny thing:one day,father wanted to get up early as usual,buthe wasn't able to do that,because he hadn't set the alarm clock the night before,so when he got up,he did everything in a hurry.After father left,mother said to me mysteriously,"He will come back soon." "Why?" I was greatly surprised."Because today is Sunday,his holiday!" Just as mother said,father came back home soon,and went to bed again--he was too tired.
You see,what an interesting family have!I hope that you will have one like mine,too.
我的家庭
每个人都有家.我们大家生活在那里,并从那里获取温暖.我们家有三口人,我妈妈、爸爸,还有我.我们在一起幸福地生活,我们家有许多有趣的故事.
我爸爸工作认真.他是理发师.
我妈妈是一位记性很不好的人.她总是做很多家务活,但有时却因为她的粗心而做错事.比如说,有一天,她用洗衣机洗衣服,最后却发现自己忘了在洗衣机中放水.现在让我告诉你一件有趣的事：一天,爸爸想像平常一样早起,但是由于他前天没有设置闹钟,所以他起晚了,当他起床时,他匆匆忙忙地洗漱完毕就去上班了,爸爸离开后,妈妈神秘地对我说：“他一会儿一定会回来的.”“为什么?”我十分惊讶.“因为今天是星期天,他的假日.”妈妈正说着的时候,不一会儿,爸爸就回来了,并且再一次上床睡觉了——因为他太累了.
你瞧,多么有趣的家庭!我希望你也有一个像我一样的家庭.
Dear teacher, dear students:
Since ancient times, the plum blossom is always open in the New Year. Snowy, plum blossom launched a blushing face. No matter how ugly it used to be, but the spring is coming, to free the unfolding of a smiling face. , it is still beautiful, it is still fragrant.
Floral, we also is such. New Years day festival, is a new starting point and end point will be abandoned. New laugh, calling, enlightenment, will install a new wing for us. In the new beginning, we have to show a new self, to let others see us the most beautiful smile. Lets cheer for themselves, with their own hands feet on the ground, trying to climb to the summit of victory. Glory belongs to success, success belongs to the efforts, and strive to belong to hard...
We are going to study the plum flower is proud snow let alone, let us in teenage years blossom a bright smiling face, let white wings took us to the wider heaven, be a proud snow let alone good student!
My speech finished, thank you!
Over the next five minutes, my intention is to transform your relationship with sound. Let me start with the observation that most of the sound around us is accidental, and much of it is unpleasant. (Traffic noise) We stand on street corners, shouting over noise like this, and pretending that it doesn't exist. Well, this habit of suppressing sound has meant that our relationship with sound has become largely unconscious.
There are four major ways sound is affecting you all the time, and I'd like to raise them in your consciousness today. First is physiological. (Loud alarm clocks) Sorry about that. I've just given you a shot of cortisol, your fight/flight hormone. Sounds are affecting your hormone secretions all the time, but also your breathing, your heart rate -- which I just also did -- and your brainwaves.
It's not just unpleasant sounds like that that do it. This is surf. (Ocean waves) It has the frequency of roughly 12 cycles per minute. Most people find that very soothing, and, interestingly, 12 cycles per minute is roughly the frequency of the breathing of a sleeping human. There is a deep resonance with being at rest. We also associate it with being stress-free and on holiday.
The second way in which sound affects you is psychological. Music is the most powerful form of sound that we know that affects our emotional state. (Albinoni's Adagio) This is guaranteed to make most of you feel pretty sad if I leave it on. Music is not the only kind of sound, however, which affects your emotions.
Natural sound can do that too. Birdsong, for example, is a sound which most people find reassuring. (Birds chirping) There is a reason for that. Over hundreds of thousands of years we've learned that when the birds are singing, things are safe. It's when they stop you need to be worried.
The third way in which sound affects you is cognitively. You can't understand two people talking at once ("If you're listening to this version of") ("me you're on the wrong track.") or in this case one person talking twice. Try and listen to the other one. ("You have to choose which me you're going to listen to.")
We have a very small amount of bandwidth for processing auditory input, which is why noise like this -- (Office noise) -- is extremely damaging for productivity. If you have to work in an open-plan office like this, your productivity is greatly reduced. And whatever number you're thinking of, it probably isn't as bad as this. (Ominous music) You are one third as productive in open-plan offices as in quiet rooms. And I have a tip for you. If you have to work in spaces like that, carry headphones with you, with a soothing sound like birdsong. Put them on and your productivity goes back up to triple what it would be.
The fourth way in which sound affects us is behaviorally. With all that other stuff going on, it would be amazing if our behavior didn't change. (Techno music inside a car) So, ask yourself: Is this person ever going to drive at a steady 28 miles per hour? I don't think so. At the simplest, you move away from unpleasant sound and towards pleasant sounds. So if I were to play this -- (Jackhammer) -- for more than a few seconds, you'd feel uncomfortable; for more than a few minutes, you'd be leaving the room in droves. For people who can't get away from noise like that, it's extremely damaging for their health.
And that's not the only thing that bad sound damages. Most retail sound is inappropriate and accidental, and even hostile, and it has a dramatic effect on sales. For those of you who are retailers, you may want to look away before I show this slide. They are losing up to 30 percent of their business with people leaving shops faster, or just turning around on the door. We all have done it, leaving the area because the sound in there is so dreadful.
I want to spend just a moment talking about the model that we've developed, which allows us to start at the top and look at the drivers of sound, analyze the soundscape and then predict the four outcomes I've just talked about. Or start at the bottom, and say what outcomes do we want, and then design a soundscape to have a desired effect. At last we've got some science we can apply. And we're in the business of designing soundscapes.
Just a word on music. Music is the most powerful sound there is, often inappropriately deployed. It's powerful for two reasons. You recognize it fast, and you associate it very powerfully. I'll give you two examples. (First chord of The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night") Most of you recognize that immediately. The younger, maybe not. (Laughter) (First two notes of "Jaws" theme) And most of you associate that with something! Now, those are one-second samples of music. Music is very powerful. And unfortunately it's veneering commercial spaces, often inappropriately. I hope that's going to change over the next few years.