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五分钟英语演讲稿五分钟英语演讲稿1“What would you do if you had only one day left to live”I asked this question to my young students when teaching English this winter. What were their answers“I would watch television!” the first answer. “I would play with the puter!” the second one. “I would play with puter TOO.” The girl finished her sentence perfectly with a serious smile. Indeed how cute and innocent that smile was, but how seriously my heart was hurt. I was too frightened to listen to more answers like that.Ten years ago, at their age, I had a different answer: I would spend the last day of my life gazing at the face of my dear grandmother until I inscribed every detail of it onto my mind.When grandmother was getting old and weak, my family bought her a telephone so I could save time and the trouble of traveling to her home by king phone calls instead. Later we bought her a television so she could watch modern dras by herself. Then grand must have been, we assumed, very contented and happy.But I never really knew how grand felt. She silently passed away without a word one night. When I heard about her death, a chilling pain pierced my empty heart. The pain grew even sharper as I tried to remember in detail exactly how grand looked and I failed pletely! How could I remember I had not visited her for agesit seemed like a century! My memories of her dissolved into thin air and leaked away like water.Even though I have a telephone, can she hear me nowEven though I might be on television, can she see me nowEven though I have modern telemunications, can she still municate with me nowWith all these “tele”s, I was powerless.Don t people just love the word of “tele”, which means far away. Indeed this is how modern technology has changed our world. But please don t forget this other word with “tele”: telepathy: which refers to hun beings inborn ability to connect to our loved ones. Our minds are posed to read each other s minds; our hearts are posed to feel each other s hearts and fulfill these without any forms of tool!But the moment I desperately struggled to remember grandmother s face, the telepathy between her and me had shut down forever. With the help of modern technology, I killed our telepathy.This shall never happen again! The “tele”s are great inventions. But “telepathy” gives them the warmth of a hun face. Let s harness the power of television to excite our kids to develop their telepathy with nature so that they can read the secret language of flowers. Let s ke the telephone lines provoke us to preserve our telepathy with each other, so we can connect in a warm and feeling way. Let technology keep our “telepathy” ALIVE! We need to wake up and ke this happen.I told my grand s story to those young kids that day. They got very quiet. They asked me for a second chance to answer the question. They had e to a new understanding that very moment they had de to me and to our future together, a dear promise.Thank you very much!五分钟英语演讲稿2The fairytale of Aladdin has always been my childhood favorite. I was mesmerized by how Aladdin used his three gic wishes. As a sll girl, I dreamed of having the gic wishes to go wherever I wanted to go and see whatever I wanted to see. As you can probably guess, I haven t found my genie in the lamp yet, however, I have found something just as exciting and it has de rvelous changes in not only my life, but the lives of all hun-beings. It is called technology.I still remember how my father told me about his childhood back in those days when China was not as open and developed as it is now. Children would run for kilometers to school, ke toys with wood by themselves, and the biggest dream of a child was holding two jars of sugar, one white, the other brown in each arm and having the choice of eating whichever he wanted. Just look at what we have now. gnificent technological advancement has opened up a whole new world to us.However, just as our lives bee more convenient, problems arise from this new life style. We seem to be caged in the modern technology; we are thinking alike as a result of using the same search engine, we are getting lazy as most of our work can be done by chines, and we are alienating people around us for we are more fortable talking on phones and typing in front of a puter.If I was given the chance to ke my gic wishes now, I would wish we could go back in time and live for three days without advanced technology. I wonder what we would do in those three days. Here is what I igine:On the first day, people would be feeling so unfortable with the new situation that they would probably be confused and just not know what to do. The world would be in a mess for the whole day.On the second day, as life goes on, people would have to find alternative ways to deal with their daily rituals: students would have to go to libraries for infortion they wanted instead of searching on Goog boys would have to express their affection to girls in person instead of sending an annoying txt messa and the young people of today would have the chance to experience the childhood of their parents. On this particular day, we could recover all we had lost in the modern world.Then es the third day. After the previous two days, we would gradually e to realize that we should have paid more attention to our stus and work as we actually have so much creativity and potential within ourselves. We would also realize that we should have spent more time with a friend, a parent or a child as we do love them, but we don t really understand them due to the lack of personal munication. We shouldn t have been so dependent on modern technology as it wasn t invented to confine us, but to inspire us. This last day would be spent in sparks of new ideas and sweet moments with our loved ones.ybe some would argue that it is just my igination, and that gic would never work in our world. True, but gic can always work in our hearts, helping us understand that we, instead of the chine, are the sters of the world. The key is to treasure our hun initiative and connections, to see the world with our own eyes, explore the unknown with our minds and treat others with our hearts. Just like Aladdin didn t choose to use gic to gain a happy life, we can ke our choice, too. And when we do, we will live, as in the fairy tales, happily ever after. Thank you.五分钟英语演讲稿3With the development of science and technology, change has perated into every ect of our daily life. To illustrate that, I d like to ke a parison of these two seemingly insignificant things: milkn and iln, whose differences indicate our changing way of living with the times.Home milk delivery has almost gone extinct in China now, also gone with it are the milkmen, who once delivered bottled fresh milk door-to-door. On the other hand, iln s business or the courier service has thrived as online shopping gains popularity. However, in retrospect, I find something has been lost in this transition, something Shakespeare called as “the milk of hun kindness”.When I was a kid, milk wasn t for sale everywhere. For the families who need it, they depended on the milkmen to take it from the local dairy farms to their houses. In our neighborhood, there was such a milkn, whose arrival was much anticipated by the children and always brought us laughter and joy. He knew the name of every kid and could easily see through our tricks. If we didn t behave, he would side with our parents and threaten to rob us of the nutritious drink. The entire neighborhood was acquainted with him; saw him as a member of the munity just like the ny residents or street vendors. There was a bond between all of us for it was not only the modities that been transacted, but also a sense of caring and dependability. And that sll box fixed onto our door, other than being a drop-off point for milk; it was a munication junction between the people as we took the initiative to reach out to others.Fast forward to today, milk is ubiquitous with no dedicated delivery system. But the convenience level of our live has gone up a notch. Almost everything is for sale online, which spares us all the travelling and talking. With a few ready clicks, shopping is done. The rest is left for those speed delivery panies. Usually it s a grumpy iln, who reaches us through cell phone, urging everyone to pick up their parcels as soon as possible. And the minute the receipt is signed, we rush back to unpack while the courier dashes to the next destination. There is barely a conversation carried out, nor do we feel the need to talk to such a stranger, who changes from time to time frequently. It seems that people are always in a hurry now, though we have more conveniences, still we run short of time to stop and stare, to speak and share.Call me an old-timer, but I think the personal touch represented by the milkn is what has been missing in the modern society. William Wordsworth once wrote that “Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.” Modern technology y have multiplied our possessions or gave us more conveniences, but we run the risk of reducing our values if we lay waste our power of interpersonal relationships. 五分9