经典英语演讲稿范文（精选3篇）

经典英语演讲稿范文 篇1

president pitzer mr. vice president, governor, congressman thomas, senator wiley, and congressman miller, mr. webb, mr. bell, scientists, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen: i appreciate your president having made me an honorary visiting professor, and i will assure you that my first lecture will be very brief. i am delighted to be here and i"m particularly delighted to be here on this occasion. we meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress, in a state noted for strength, and we stand in need of all three, for we meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. the greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this nation"s own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth more than three times that of our population as a whole, despite that, the vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished still far outstrip our collective comprehension. no man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come, but condense, if you will, the 50,000 years of man"s recorded history in a time span of but a half-century. stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years, except at the end of them advanced man had learned to use the skins of animals to cover them. then about 10 years ago, under this standard, man emerged from his caves to construct other kinds of shelter. only five years ago man learned to write and use a cart with wheels. christianity began less than two years ago. the printing press came this year, and then less than two months ago, during this whole 50-year span of human history, the steam engine provided a new source of power. newton explored the meaning of gravity. last month electric lights and telephones and automobiles and airplanes became available. only last week did we develop penicillin and television and nuclear power, and now if america"s new spacecraft succeeds in reaching venus, we will have literally reached the stars before midnight tonight. this is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, new dangers. surely the opening vistas of space promise high costs and hardships, as well as high reward. so it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer to rest, to wait. but this city of houston, this state of texas, this country of the united states was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. this country was conquered by those who moved forward--and so will space. william bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the plymouth bay colony, said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage. if this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. the exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space. those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. we mean to be a part of it--we mean to lead it. for the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. we have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding. yet the vows of this nation can only be fulfilled if we in this nation are first, and, therefore, we intend to be first. in short, our leadership in science and industry, our hopes for peace and security, our obligations to ourselves as well as others, all require us to make this effort, to solve these mysteries, to solve them for the good of all men, and to become the world"s leading space-faring nation. we set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. for space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the united states occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. i do not say that we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but i do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours. there is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. its hazards are hostile to us all. its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. but why, some say, the moon? why choose this as our goal? and they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? why, 35 years ago, fly the atlantic? why does rice play texas? we choose to go to the moon. we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. it is for these reasons that i regard the decision last year to shift our efforts in space from low to high gear as among the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency in the office of the presidency. in the last 24 hours we have seen facilities now being created for the greatest and most complex exploration in man"s history. we have felt the ground shake and the air shattered by the testing of a saturn c-1 booster rocket, many times as powerful as the atlas which launched john glenn, generating power equivalent to 10,000 automobiles with their accelerators on the floor. we have seen the site where five f-1 rocket engines, each one as powerful as all eight engines of the saturn combined, will be clustered together to make the advanced saturn missile, assembled in a new building to be built at cape canaveral as tall as a 48 story structure, as wide as a city block, and as long as two lengths of this field. within these last 19 months at least 45 satellites have circled the earth. some 40 of them were made in the united states of america and they were far more sophisticated and supplied far more knowledge to the people of the world than those of the soviet union. the mariner spacecraft now on its way to venus is the most intricate instrument in the history of space science. the accuracy of that shot is comparable to firing a missile from cape canaveral and dropping it in this stadium between the 40-yard lines. transit satellites are helping our ships at sea to steer a safer course. tiros satellites have given us unprecedented warnings of hurricanes and storms, and will do the same for forest fires and icebergs. we have had our failures, but so have others, even if they do not admit them. and they may be less public. to be sure, we are behind, and will be behind for some time in manned flight. but we do not intend to stay behind, and in this decade, we shall make up and move ahead. the growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new techniques of learning and mapping and observation, by new tools and computers for industry, medicine, the home as well as the school. technical institutions, such as rice, will reap the harvest of these gains. and finally, the space effort itself, while still in its infancy, has already created a great number of new companies, and tens of thousands of new jobs. space and related industries are generating new demands in investment and skilled personnel, and this city and this state, and this region, will share greatly in this growth. what was once the furthest outpost on the old frontier of the west will be the furthest outpost on the new frontier of science and space. houston, your city of houston, with its manned spacecraft center, will become the heart of a large scientific and engineering community. during the next 5 years the national aeronautics and space administration expects to double the number of scientists and engineers in this area, to increase its outlays for salaries and expenses to $60 million a year; to invest some $200 million in plant and laboratory facilities; and to direct or contract for new space efforts over $1 billion from this center in this city. to be sure, all this costs us all a good deal of money. this year"s space budget is three times what it was in january 1961, and it is greater than the space budget of the previous eight years combined. that budget now stands at $5,400 million a year--a staggering sum, though somewhat less than we pay for cigarettes and cigars every year. space expenditures will soon rise some more, from 40 cents per person per week to more than 50 cents a week for every man, woman and child in the united states, for we have given this program a high national priority--even though i realize that this is in some measure an act of faith and vision, for we do not now know what benefits await us. but if i were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun--almost as hot as it is here today--and do all this, and do it right, and do it first before this decade is out--then we must be bold. i"m the one who is doing all the work, so we just want you to stay cool for a minute. however, i think we"re going to do it, and i think that we must pay what needs to be paid. i don"t think we ought to waste any money, but i think we ought to do the job. and this will be done in the decade of the sixties. it may be done while some of you are still here at school at this college and university. it will be done during the terms of office of some of the people who sit here on this platform. but it will be done. and it will be done before the end of this decade. and i am delighted that this university is playing a part in putting a man on the moon as part of a great national effort of the united states of america. many years ago the great british explorer george mallory, who was to die on mount everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. he said, "because it is there." well, space is there, and we"re going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. and, therefore, as we set sail we ask god"s blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked. thank you.

经典英语演讲稿范文 篇2

先生们女士们，大家下午好！我非常荣幸站在这里为你们带来一段小小的演讲，我今天所要讲的主题是“生命”，我希望你们喜欢。

人们的生活正在逐步的改善着。实际上，我站在这里就正在成长。如果一个人的生命必须面对许多各种各样的选择，那么，我会一边选择，一边成长。曾经我希望我能在将来在大学里学习，不管怎么样，我考过了，如你所见到的，我现在正站在这梦寐以求的大学里，可是现在，我更渴望知道我的未来会有什么等着我。

当我来到这所学校的"时候，我告诉我自己。我的将来就从这里开始，接下来，我要学着去成为一个男人，一个真正的男人，并有一个健康的身体。能够胜任重任，能有独到的见解，能见识广泛，能思想深邃，能判断出对的和错的，能工作的非常出色。

我的老师曾经说过：“你不是普通的，你是独一无二的。永远不要忘记你所能展示给人们是你的思想，不是你的技术。”我将把我的人格和我的兴趣以及我的能力带到我的学习中去，在这个过程中，我将注重实践和理论的结合。如果我能实现我的这个梦想，我想，我那时就真正的长大了，那时我相信我的亲情，友情，爱情将会变的十分完美，十分幸福。

你对你的将来怎么看呢？可能那会是一个很美好的愿望。让我们坚定我们的目标，为之努力，并真正的享受我们的生命.

经典英语演讲稿范文 篇3

老师、各位家长、同学：

下午好！我是LYX的家长。

首先，我很感谢剑桥英语学校的老师给我这样一个发言的机会。我很乐意和大家一起交流一下孩子的教育问题。我就把自己在家庭教育方面的情况向各位作以下两个方面的介绍。

一、俗话说：父母是孩子的第一任老师

父母能为孩子做的最好事情，就是给孩子做个好榜样，家长的一言一行直接影响到孩子，所以家长在待人处事方面必须起表率作用。一些良好的习惯或不好的习惯往往都是从小在家里形成的。孩子的许多好的道德品质、行为习惯，学习习惯的养成如：尊敬父母、勤俭节约、爱惜粮食，保质保量地按时完成家庭作业等都需要在家里由家长正确引导和督促下才能完成。

我在写这篇稿子时，我问过LYX，你自己认为你在学习这方面有哪些优点，他说就拿学英语来说吧有三点：一是多阅读和收看与英语有关的内容：比如电视、一些卡通书籍；二是平时多积累，多听英语磁带，不会读的单词一定要读会；三是课前预习，抓重点。

具体地说我们平时也是这样要求他的.：

第一，阅读是他小养成的习惯，因为我们做家长的一直都有读书读报的习惯，这一点他耳濡目染。

第二、对于他的学习态度，要求学习专心、细心，课堂上真正做好五到：眼到、心到、耳到、口到，手到。勇于克服学习中的困难。书写要工整、清洁、准确。对于不懂的题目或英语上读不好的单词，我都要求他主动问老师，告诉他不要怕丑，老师最喜欢问问题的学生，最不喜欢的是不懂装懂的人，如果怕丢丑问老师，那就永远搞不懂，为了当时的面子，那就会丢一辈子的面子。

第三、孩子放学后完成的作业，我都会检查督促。口头作业、复习、预习作业也不容草率。复习是巩固知识，预习对于第二天老师要讲的内容心里有了大概的眉目，能起到抓到重点的作用，提高学习效率。

该学的时候就专心致志地学，该玩的时候就痛痛快快地玩。良好的学习习惯孩子也不是一天二天就能形成的，还是要靠家长正确引导督促。

二、家长要经常积极主动的和老师沟通

通过和老师的沟通既可以及时了解自己孩子在学校的学习情况，能够有针对性地要求孩子巩固学得不够扎实的知识，也可以了解孩子在学校的行为习惯方面的情况。毕竟我们在家里看到的孩子只在在家里的一面，在学校的表现我们是看得不全面的。

剑桥英语学校的教学形式新颖活泼，一些赏识教学，情景教学让孩子们都很喜欢，也让我们做家长的耳目一新。我可以这样说剑桥英语学校的每一位老师都是非常认真尽职尽责的老师，不仅仅是在教英语教学上一丝不苟，对于孩子的自身成长上也是非常注重与关心的。就拿我的孩子LYX来说，可能从小听的赞扬话太多，一直都有一帆风顺的感觉。有一天上英语课时，老师要他们做一个游戏，就是分两组说单词，看谁说得又快又对，就前进一步，结果LYX输了别人几步，有挫败感觉，他就不乐意，抱怨别人。王老师发现这一问题后及时告诉我，长期下去，将来走向社会遇到困难挫折就会承受不了，对他的身心健康非常不利。王老师也给我分析出，可能是孩子一直优越感强了，怕面对失败。所以在今后对待这类问题上，我也就会多留心了，要疏导他有一个良好的心态，天外有天，人外有人。要胜不骄败不馁。

对孩子的在学校的一些不好的行为习惯，比如上课讲小话，不积极举手回答问题，不善于交朋友，家长和老师沟通了，起到督导作用，然后配合老师批评、谈话，共同努力来让孩子纠正效果好得多。比起你天天单方面的在他耳边唠叨强得多。曾有家长这样比较过，要说孩子最听谁的话：那孩子听爷爷奶奶的不如听爸爸妈妈的话，听爸爸妈妈的话不如听老师的话。老师的话有圣旨的威力，所以老师的话孩子们还是最听的！但是我们做家长的应该密切配合老师共同完成教育孩子。

以上观点是我个人的一点体会，说的不对之处还请大家批评指正，最后祝大家圣诞节快乐！谢谢！