英文即席演章节稿范例.doc

Impromptu speech topics range from topic issues of video clips and cartoon pictures to general statement, quotations, and questions similar to the writing tests ones in TOEFL or IELTS. The following are student impromptu speech samples. Read or listen to it carefully and summarize the ways of composing effective impromptu speech. Video topic issue Has the Internet narrowed or increased the distance between people? Why? Bu Yang 2002 （决赛2分钟） OK. Im gonna first tell you a story. Last year, I was working for a media company. Whenever I check my e-mail in the office, I get a lot of e-mails from all around the world. I get e-mails from people who live on the other side of the globe, from the other side of the earth, but I also get e-mails from people whos just sitting on the other side of my office. I bring up this example because I believe it shows well the advantages and disadvantages the Internet serves as a tool for people communicating. Of course, if two people are very distant away from one another, when they are very far away from one another, e-mail is a very important powerful tool. The Internet serves as a very good powerful tool. If you need to tell the other person something, you just type in words and write an e-mail. And then, within seconds, the e-mail is sent to the other side of the earth. Thats, of course, very powerful. But when people are sitting so close, they are living so close to one another, its not a large distance, we shouldnt use Internet so much as a communicating tool. Take my example that I mentioned earlier, employers, they have to send e-mails back and forth even when they are sitting in the same office, when they are supposed to walk just a few steps away and tell the other person what they would like to tell them. But they, instead, send e-mails. And we have to check the e-mail every now and then because every five minutes or every ten minutes we get information to tell us what we are supposed to do. O