The school had just held a sports day, and the next day I heard that a speech contest with the theme of "patriotism" would be held next week.

This speech requires the speaker to write by himself, about 1,000 words, and the time is required to be controlled within five minutes.

There are a lot of students who have signed up, and it may be that they have never held a speech contest before.

I carefully conceived this "patriotic" theme, found some history books, and wrote a speech.

The old class asked that next Monday night, the contestants first have a preliminary round in the class, and the winner will participate in the speech contest.

Full of enthusiasm, but lacking in strength.

This competition requires you to participate in the competition, and you need to memorize your manuscript before participating in the competition.

I didn't think it was when I wrote it, but when I actually read my manuscript aloud, I realized that I was writing too much in writing, and some of the sentences were too long, which was not easy to express emotions.

But I didn't know how to revise it for a while, so I had to memorize this manuscript first.

That's it, I memorized it at home for two days, got up early in the morning on Monday and came to school, before memorizing the words, I reviewed the speech, but fortunately, I still remember the recitation two days ago, and I must work hard for the evening game.

I took a deep breath and adjusted my emotions, and I was finally able to endorse it with peace of mind.

There is no truth in the world that you can get something for nothing, only hard work will be rewarded.

The day's class, from the first period in the morning to the eighth period in the evening, rested for two days, and Monday's class was not particularly difficult, but it was so loose and tight, the whole person was like a piece of paralyzed bread, sitting listlessly in his position, reviewing the new knowledge he learned today.

At about seven o'clock in the evening, the old class held his lesson plan, walked to the lectern, moved the bench, sat down, coughed lightly, and said: "Tonight, this is the first evening self-study, let's listen to how the students who signed up before are prepared."

Speech is a good skill, I hope that everyone will pay attention to it even if there is no competition in the future, and exercise it can improve a person's expression ability. ”

After he finished speaking, Li Ling took her notebook and began to read her speech.

Listening to her impassioned voice, I was a little fascinated.

I have to sigh that her manuscript is much better than mine.

Justified, my overly lyrical and soft, I began to panic a little, and unconsciously began to get nervous.

I was confident in the morning, but while waiting for the game, I began to be exhausted little by little, and I also questioned myself a little.

Maybe I lived too much of myself before, and as soon as the Chinese teacher praised my writing well, I began to feel a little arrogant, and I felt that my writing was really good, including the writing of this speech competition, which was too rigid and self-serving.

Some of my classmates usually don't express themselves, but today when he or she stood on the podium and talked passionately with us about those stories or truths about their love feelings, my eyes were a little wet.

A good speech can really hit people's hearts and lungs, evoke some pictures, drive the audience's emotions, sit in the classroom together, and enjoy an "audio-visual feast".

At this moment, I began to understand that it is not the rhetoric of the sentence and other techniques that are used more, which means that the sentence is well written, especially when used in speeches, excessive and cumbersome rhetoric will not be easy for the speaker to break the sentence, so that the expression effect of emotions and emotions will be reduced a lot, and it cannot be regarded as a better speech.

I was the fifth.

When the fourth student was speaking, I kept secretly writing my own speech and reading the speech, and changed some of the things that I felt were bad or unsmooth, so that it was much more comfortable to read, and it sounded the same.

But that's it, it's self-defeating.

The sentence that I just revised was not impressive, and the manuscript that I had memorized was a little strange for a while, and I was stuck on the podium and didn't know what to say for a long time.

This is the first time I have been unable to get off the stage because of something related to my speech, because I made a serious mistake due to my improper operation.

My face turned red with a bang, and I felt like a fire was burning on my face. I kept my head down, not knowing what to do.

The old class tilted his head to look at me and said, "If you really can't memorize it, you can just read it." Anyway, it's the preliminary round......"

He seems to be afraid that I will take too long and occupy the time of other games, so he will say that.

I pulled out the crumpled handwritten speech from my coat pocket and began to read it, occasionally looking into everyone's eyes for a while, imitating characters on TV and adding body movements to express myself.

It turns out that it is also good to read according to the script, at least the listeners will not wait long, and at the same time, their nervousness will be much less.

But this is also the idea that I almost gave up on the competition, and when my brain went blank and the old class looked at me with a slight disdain, my head "buzzed" and exploded.

In those few seconds, I asked myself, "Did I compete to compete, or did I like to speak?" ”

The answer is, of course, the latter, and since that's the case, I should pay more attention to the effect of the speech than to whether the form of the speech will allow me to participate in the competition.

Thinking of Li Ling holding her manuscript in a chic manner just now, as if she was just reading, but she also read more like a speech than me, a guy who boasted of memorizing it for two days.

After putting down the baggage, I took out the manuscript and read the speech I had revised for the second time with passion, the overall atmosphere was really much better, and the emotions were expressed in place.

Waiting for me to bow down, he said with a smile: "Thank you for listening, my speech is over." ”

As soon as the words ended, there was a loud applause around them.

But when I heard the heartfelt praise from my classmates, the emotions in my heart were indescribable.

I'm a little happy because my strength is recognized; But I'm also a little sad because I could have done better.

After the two students behind me finished their speeches, the head teacher took his notebook and rated each of us, and at the same time, he also circled the advantages and disadvantages of our speeches and the areas that needed to be improved in the speech process.

The comment about me is: "I am not well prepared, I am not proficient in memorization, but my emotions and body movements are in place." ”

He gave me second place, which was actually a bit unexpected and reasonable.

Then the first place is Li Ling, right? I muttered to myself as I watched as the head teacher read out the rankings.

The first place turned out to be Zhu Xiaoqi, not Li Ling, because her manuscript was written in fullness and without delay, and it was very beautiful.

This was the first time I beat Li Ling, and although it was a speech, I was still so happy that I almost cheered. Because, she is so good that she can make any girl jealous.

Is it Zhu Xiaoqi who participated in the competition?

I continued to stare intently at the old class's notebook, waiting for him to announce the participants.

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