Chapter 29: Speech Contest
Hearing Mucha say that he liked it very much, Mo Shaohua smiled: "The basic question type is moderately difficult, after all, it has only been a month since the second year of high school, and the teacher will not give too difficult questions."
Mucha looked up in disbelief and found that Mo Shaohua was looking at him with a smile.
For a while, she was flashed by Mo Shaohua's warm and dazzling smile, and she forgot what she wanted to say.
"Mucha, do you have any questions?" Mo Shaohua saw Mucha looking at him in a daze, and put away his smile.
Hearing the boy's question, Mucha saw that the smile disappeared again, and came back to his senses and teased: "You smile so beautifully, like a spring flower, but it's better for you to stay the same, because when you smile, it's easy for people to sin."
After finishing speaking, Mucha concentrated on the math test paper, and didn't notice Mo Shaohua's red ears at all.
For the next period of time, Mucha was even busier.
In addition to daily study and exercise, she either asked Mr. Xu to constantly correct the English speech script, or she was so happy to do the questions that she ignored the state of her friend He Miao, and also missed Mo Shaohua's desire to speak.
In the blink of an eye, a week passed.
On Saturday, October 13th, the weather was sunny and everything was lovely.
In the comprehensive building of Fanhe No. 4 Middle School, Mucha and nine classmates from the same school conducted the preliminary round of the English speech competition, and this time the top three will be determined, and other schools in Fanhe County will have the second round of semi-finals.
Among the teenage students, Mucha won the first place with her fluent English at work, which is really a bit of a bully.
However, in order to exercise his own ability and no longer leave regrets for his youth, Mucha is still cheeky and continues to work hard.
After the preliminary competition, Mr. Xu stopped Mucha and reminded: "Musha, I found that when you were on stage, you were still quite nervous, and in the next week, you should practice more on stage, and pay attention to the tone not too fast."
"Thank you, Mr. Xu, I will practice more." After saying goodbye to the teacher, Mucha still came to the county library.
She finds a book about speeches, writes them down, and pays attention to what she needs to pay attention to when making a good presentation.
On Monday, the weather was gloomy and gloomy, and Mucha went to the flag-raising ceremony as usual.
When passing by He Miao's seat, she suddenly remembered that last Monday, her friend didn't come to school.
Mucha walked out of the classroom quickly, and saw He Miao holding Yang Yueyue's arm, talking and laughing.
When the two saw Mucha come out, they put away their smiles and walked forward.
Muxia, who had experienced this kind of scene before, still didn't understand anything at this time, she ran two steps quickly, squeezed between the two, grabbed their arms, and walked downstairs.
"Two gentle, cute, beautiful and kind little fairies, don't be angry, the little woman apologizes to you this time, the two of you are adults, forgive me." Mucha shook the arms of the two of them and said in a loud voice.
There was a burst of laughter around, He Miao and Yang Yueyue couldn't hold back anymore and laughed out loud.
Mucha saw that the two of them had smiles, and was about to say something more, when he heard Director Hou's scolding at the door of the teaching building: "Which class are you in, the flag-raising ceremony is about to start, why are you still grinding there?"
The three of them looked at each other, hurriedly let go of their arms, and ran towards the class team.
After the flag-raising ceremony, Mucha took He Miao and Yang Yueyue to the canteen together.
The three of them bought breakfast, and after sitting down, Mucha took out three bottles of Wahaha AD calcium milk from the pocket of his school uniform and handed them to the two, "I'm sorry, I was busy with English speeches last week and neglected you."
"It's okay, you didn't mean to, as long as it wasn't for the boys to ignore us, we can all forgive you. But when did you speak English so well, and teach us that? He Miao took Wahaha, inserted the straw, and took a sip.
Mucha watched the two of them drink Wahaha, understood that the two of them had forgiven themselves, and said with a smile: "Actually, it is not easy to speak English, the most important thing is to overcome yourself, open your mouth and say it, the sentence will not be able to say words, let's practice more in the future."
Yang Yueyue swallowed the beef noodles in her mouth, "Really?"
"Yes, let's form a group of three people to practice speaking English. Come, let's raise a glass for our newly formed group, for our innocent friendship, cheers! ”
“Cheers!”
“Cheers!”
The three of them had breakfast and came out of the cafeteria, only to find that it was raining.
The autumn rain is dripping, like a curtain.
Mucha looked at the Kunlun Mountain in the distance, the smoke was hazy, beautiful, like a fairyland.
The other two also looked at Mucha's line of sight, and for a while, all three of them were stunned.
"Jingle bell, jingle bell......" The preparatory bell for class rang.
"Run, sister." Mucha shouted, and then the three of them hurried to the classroom in the autumn rain.
The three of them ran to the door of the classroom out of breath and saw Teacher Xu who was already on the podium, waiting for class.
“Excuse me, may I come in ?” Mucha stood in the doorway, breathing a sigh of relief and shouting.
“Come in, please .” When Mr. Xu saw that all the students had arrived, he opened the book and began the lesson, "Please read the text, MuXia."
Mucha knew that Teacher Xu was looking for an opportunity to practice more in front of others, and then she stood up and began to read aloud.
"As long as you are willing to work hard, teachers are willing to be a bridge to help you succeed." After the English class, Ms. Xu called Mucha outside the classroom, handed her two books on English speech, and then stepped on high heels and shook her long wavy hair back to the office.
Looking at the graceful Teacher Xu in the distance, Muxia's eyes were full of tears of gratitude, "It turns out that only if you work hard and don't give up, and are willing to seize the opportunity, others will have the opportunity to help you."
The autumn rain came quietly, and it rained sparsely for a week.
One autumn rain and one cold, ten autumn rains put on cotton.
On Saturday morning, when Mucha was running, she clearly felt the chill of late autumn, and when she returned to the dormitory, she hurriedly changed into thick autumn pants.
Seeing that Yang Yueyue also got up, Mucha reminded her again: "Yueyue, you put on your autumn pants and it's cooled down again."
Today, Mucha is going to Fanhe No. 1 Middle School to participate in the English speech semi-finals.
The other two people in the English group also actively wanted to follow, saying that they were going to cheer for Mucha.
After breakfast, Mucha followed the tips in the book and put on the blue and white school uniforms that had been washed in advance as his clothes for the competition.
After a week of practicing on stage, Mucha is no longer as nervous as he was when he first took the stage.
At half past eight, Muxia, He Miao and Yang Yueyue came to Fanhe No. 1 Middle School.
Mucha looked up at the school gate full of cultural atmosphere and was amazed: it is worthy of being a key middle school, and you can "smell" a strong "learning smell" at the school gate.
After waiting for Mr. Xu and the other two students from the preliminary round to arrive, they came to the door of the newly renovated laboratory building of No. 1 Middle School under the leadership of Mr. Xu.
Mucha looked at the contestants from the other three schools, including students in their respective school uniforms and students in costumes related to the topic of the presentation.
In particular, the students who wore the uniforms of No. 1 Middle School looked more confident than the students of other schools.
Mucha also noticed that she was the only one, wearing handmade cloth shoes made by her mother.
The rest of the students were either sneakers or small leather shoes.
Although Mucha washed her shoes cleanly and had delicate embroideries on them, at this moment, she couldn't help but want to hide her feet and not want others to notice.
Seeing the classmates next to her talking and laughing, Mucha suddenly felt that she was not ready, and the whole person became nervous.
In her confusion, she followed the group into the multimedia classroom, sat down in the seats marked with her name, and waited for the draw to determine the order of appearance.
The participating schools include Fanhe No. 1 Middle School, No. 4 Middle School, Vocational High School and Sports Middle School, of which there are five students in one middle school, and the other three schools are all three students.
Mucha nervously rubbed the sweat from her palms, and when it was her turn to draw lots, she shook her hands and drew a note with the number "11" written on it.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the English speech contest officially began.
The hostess with a ponytail came to the stage and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, good morning! Welcome to Fanhe No. 1 Middle School and participate in this English speech contest. Now I will introduce to you the rules of the competition, each contestant has five minutes of speech time, and the six judges and teachers will score on the spot according to the content of the speech, language expression, fluency, speech skills, appearance image, time grasp, comprehensive impression and other seven parts. Now I invite the number one contestant to give a speech. ”
The first person to speak on stage was a girl from Fanhe No. 1 Middle School, after she took the stage, she skillfully picked up the megaphone, and a sweet and fluent English came into everyone's ears.
Five minutes later, her speech was successfully completed, and the audience immediately burst into applause.
As time passed, Mucha became more and more nervous, and the manuscript was almost permeated by the sweat in her palms.
Mucha looked at the numbers blurred by sweat in her hand, the order in which she went on stage was relatively late, and the judges and teachers began to get tired at that time, she wanted to get the ranking, and only if she did better than the contestants in front of her could she have a chance.
But now, she is so nervous, how can she do better? Do you want to give up?
No, since she chose to participate in this speech contest, she has to find a way to overcome all kinds of difficulties that she has come up with out of thin air.
Mucha kept rubbing her fingers, but the more nervous she was, the more she couldn't think of a way, and sweat ran down her cheeks.
When he took the stage to give a speech on the 7th, He Miao, who was sitting behind Muxia's right, gently patted Muxia's shoulder, handed her a pack of paper and a piece of mint-flavored chewing gum, and whispered: "Wipe your sweat, chew gum, and replenish some energy."
Looking at the chewing gum in his hand, Mucha unpacked it, put it in his mouth, chewed it, and again and again, his heartbeat calmed down.
All the tension before seems to have been chewed by myself.
After taking the stage on the 10th, Mucha spit the tasteless chewing gum in the wrapper, folded it, and put it in his desk pocket for the time being.
At the same time, I also compared myself with other players just now, and the inferiority complex that occurred was put down.
Beautiful clothes, beautiful shoes, she hasn't worn them, and she hasn't had the opportunity to wear them again?
As long as the clothes and shoes are clean and tidy, they will not leave a bad impression, and her cloth shoes are still hand-customized, unique, warm and comfortable without covering your feet.
If her life can start all over again, she will be lucky enough than others, so why bother with the final results and rankings.
If she can stand on that podium, she is already better than others.
After seeing that the judges had completed their scoring, the host continued: "Now please give a speech on the stage on the eleventh."
“Good morning, everyone. The theme of my speech today is youth and dreams ......" Mucha calmly walked up to the stage, bowed deeply, and began his speech with emotion.
Each person had five minutes to speak, and Mucha finished his speech after five minutes and twenty seconds.
At this time, the audience was quiet, there was no applause, and there was no comment from the judges, Mucha was nervous again, could it be that she performed poorly?