田湘军 演讲

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen,
I'm very glad to attend this English speech competition. The topic of my speech is: Love----the key to success.
As everybody knows, the beginning of the 21st century is an era of information. This is the time of knowledge economics. Development during this era requires more people talented in processing and exchanging information. These people are cultivated by education --- and education needs teachers. With no doubt, teachers have to take their responsibility in this era and perform their required task. This is why teaching, as a career is one of the most splendid under the sun. This is why teachers are regarded as the burning candles providing others with heat and light. Then how to be a qualified teacher? How to be a successful teacher? I think this requires that teachers have not only rich knowledge, effective methodology of teaching, advanced multi-media technology, but also have the feelings of love, love for his profession and for his students. Love is the key to success.
I’ve been an English teacher for almost fifteen years. During these years, I have realized the importance of the feelings of love. I remember that, when I was a college student, I liked music very much. I liked playing the guitar. Sometimes I wrote some romantic love songs to express my feelings. But after I graduated from the college, I began to teach. At that time, I had a strange thought. That is: I’m sure I can’t be a composer or musician. It’s really of no use to continue composing those love songs. Then why can’t I write some songs for my students? Why can’t I use those English sentence patterns as the words and compose them into English songs so that my students can sing them all the time?
After one year, I finished composing almost twenty English songs for my students. They liked those songs very much. To my happiness, several songs were published in our Junior-high journals in my hometown.
I felt so happy about that and I thought it was love, it was the feelings of love for my profession and for my students that lead me to success.
English teaching is not easy work. But I want to let my students learn English easily. I want to let them know that they can gain a lot of happiness and fun from learning. Every time I teach, I’ll try my best to mo tivate the students, arouse their learning interests and make every effort to bring out the best in them. Once I was required to give a demonstration class for the students in Grade Three. The topic of this lesson is in a fast-food restaurant. Well, of cou rse it’s impossible for me to take more than fifty students to a MacDonald’s. How to create such kind of situation and how to let students feel happy and have fun when they are learning? At last, I decided to teach with the help of multi-media. I used Authorware, one of the multi-media computer softwares to make a short movie. Students can watch it on the screen by the over-head projector. At first, they can see a MacDonald’s in a forest. Snowwhite is standing in front of the gate to welcome the seven dwarfs. Then students could hear their funny conversation, which is formed by the key words and sentences they are going to learn in the new text. When students watched this short movie, they felt very happy and they also learned those key words and sentences very easily.
My demonstration class was very successful. And I think it is love, it is love for my profession and for my students that lead me to success.
Ladies and gentlemen, as a teacher, if you have the feeling of love for your profession and your stude nts, you’ll feel the need to learn more and keep improving your teaching skills. If you have love, you’ll be able to enjoy your teaching and harvest much happiness. If you have love, you’ll be a qualified, successful and happy teacher. Because love is the key to success.
Thank you.。