高中英语课堂演讲小话题,不要太深了

高中英语课堂演讲小话题,不要太深了

我前几天刚演讲完,在奥巴马“开学演讲”中截了一段,你也可以试试!或者背一首英语诗也行,像泰戈尔的“生如夏花”,莎士比亚的“十四行诗”.
嗯,再给你几个微段子吧
 America is a mobile society.Friendships between Americans can be close and real,yet disappear soon if situations change.Neither side feels hurt by this.Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two,perhaps a few letters for a while — then no more.If the same two people meet again by chance,even years later,they pick up the friendship.This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand,because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings,extending (延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.
Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes,share their holidays,and their home life.They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily.
Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives,they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time.This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time.Sometimes,we,as hosts,will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend.We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends.The Americans,however,express their welcome usually at homes,but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine.They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus.And they expect that we will phone them from there.Once we arrive at their homes,the welcome will be full,warm and real.We will find ourselves treated hospitably.
For the Americans,it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants,except for purely business matters.So accept their hospitality at home!
     English is the most widely used language in the history of our planet.One in every seven human beings can speak it.More than half of the world’s books and three quarters of international mail are in English.Of all languages,English has the largest vocabulary — perhaps as many as two million words.
      However,let’s face it:English is a crazy language.There is no egg in an eggplant,neither pine nor apple in a pineapple and no ham in a hamburger.Sweet-meats are candy,while sweetbreads,which aren’t sweet,are meat.
      We take English for granted.But when we explore its paradoxes (探讨它的矛盾),we find that quicksand can work slowly,boxing rings are square,  public bathrooms have no baths in them.
      And why is it that a writer writes,but fingers don’t fing,grocers don’t groce,and hammers don’t ham?If the plural of tooth is teeth,shouldn’t the plural of booth be beeth?One goose,two geese — so one moose,two meese?
      How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?How can overlook and oversee be opposites,while quite a lot and quite a few are alike?How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next? 
     English was invented by people,not computers,and it reflects (反映) the creativity of human beings.That’s why,when stars are out,they are visible (能看见的); but when the lights are out,they are invisible.And why,when I wind up my watch,I start it; but when I wind up this essay,I  end  it.                                                                                                                                    给你个网站http://wenku.baidu.com/view/985a7de7524de518964b7d80.html