篇一：珍藏的名人演讲---各类名人演讲视频网址大全
我把我珍藏的名人演讲给大家分享，希望各位从中学到一些东西（听他们一席话，胜读十年书！）
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中央电视台节目 CCTV《我们》适合当代青年看的节目 !! http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjk3MjExMDg=.html 《我们》俞敏洪 CCTV大学生就业问题
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTM3Nzk4NjA=_rss.html CCTV 【我们】聚焦80后
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http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTIyOTA2Mzg4_rss.html 马云阿里巴巴十周年演讲 http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODE3ODkwMTY=.html 马云河南郑州创业演讲 经典！！ http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDA5NjA0Mjg=.html 马云在母校杭州师范学院的演讲 http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTk2MjU1MDA=.html传奇人物马云演讲 http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjA4MzY2Njg=.html北京创业盛会：马云经典演讲！（什么叫智慧啊！） http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNzcxMDI5MzY=.html 马云在<赢在中国>的精彩演讲!
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODI0NzMwMzI=.html 马云在<赢在中国>的精彩演讲!（实在是聪明人啊!） http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjQ4MjY1MTI=_rss.html 杨致远、马云谈全球视野的创业之路 http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTIzNDUxMjg=_rss.html 马云_人永远不要忘记自己 http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjY1NDMyNTI=_rss.html<赢在中国>马道成功创业教父马云的经营哲学01 http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjY1NDUzMzY=.html
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篇二：公选课中外名人演讲和视频欣赏及英汉互译
2012-2013下学期公选课中外名人演讲和视频欣赏及英汉互译
期末考查英译汉
Well first let me introduce a little bit about Alibaba Group. Alibaba was founded in 1999, 18 founders in my apartment. And we just have an idea we believe Internet is going to change China. Internet is going to booming. So nobody believed us. Everybody say, well, you know, how can you do Internet in China because Chinese government censorship is decent. There’s no reason for us to survive. And today people say, Jack, you’re visionary; how could you tell e-commerce Internet 10 years ago. And I said… I think we’re like a blind man riding on the back of blind tigers. Just by accident. We focused, we make the thing happen and today from 18 people now today we have more than 20,000 people. And we grow from one company to 5 companies right now.
The first company is called Alibaba.com and it focuses on small and medium-sized companies. Helping small and medium-sized companies, we have all 37 or 38 million register SMEs in China using our services. Outside China we have more than 12 million SMEs using our services. So, well, our business model’s very simple. One side is China side, is a domestic trading. Anything you want to buy, anything you want to sell, you can use the website in China. It’s like a market place, like E-bay. But E-bay is C2C; we are B2B. The Alibaba B2B: one is China domestic trading; the other is import and export. It’s a marketplace for global purchasing, global buying. It grows probably we listed 3 years ago in the HK market, and we were very lucky because the day we listed; the market was good. So our stock price grows from $13.5 to $40 without doing anything good. Just go up. And three months later, our stock from $40 to $3 without doing anything bad. Just, you know, just up and down. And there was the rock and roll. And now the company’s stabilized, we still focus on e-commerce, still focus on SMEs. But except the company, the other 4 companies are private companies.
The other company which we own 100% is called Taobao.com which probably most Chinese people here have heard about it. It is much more influential than Alibaba.com in China. We have more than 300 million register users. It started with
the C-C, but 95% is from B-C. And 6 years ago, we started to compete with E-bay. E-bay, a lot of money… At that time their market can be 80 billion dollars. They came to China, they said they would compete with Alibaba, and we started the business from zero and we got like 2 or 3% market share. Now we have 90% market share which E-bay have like 2 or 3 market share. So Taobao is a combination of Emerson, E-bay, and Google and Face book. It’s a community on line and we have 43 million unique visitors visit the site shopping every day. And we finish 8 million transactions per day. And logistically last year the package delivery in the whole China is 2 billion packages’ delivery on the road. We created 1.1 billion, so we have like 55% market share on this delivery. It’s growing very fast and we already have like 100% growth in the past 7 years. And we will keep it 100% this year.
And the third company we have is called Alipays, like a PayPal. It’s a very stupid model. 5 years ago, I found that it’s so difficult to do transactions on line because people don’t trust each other. The banking system is so bad. The infrastructure of finance is also bad. So I was worried about what I’m going to do. The bank has the license to do this. We know how to do business, but we don’t have the license. So in the end, people say, Jack, don’t touch that area. If you touch the area, you will be in prison because financial sector is very risky in China. And I say put me in the prison; let’s do it. And we do transparently, we do everything clear in order to make sure that the government is happy, people are happy. So we work with the banks, you know, close to 70 banks in China. Today we have 400 million register users and we are the largest on-line third party payment without any business model. We jus
篇三：有关模仿名人的大学生英语演讲稿
篇一：办公室部员关于英语演讲名人模仿秀大赛总结
办公室部员关于英语演讲名人模仿秀大赛总结 12月1日下午3:00，由校团委主办、外国语学院承办的淮阴工学院第九届英语文化节英文演讲名人模仿秀大赛在枚乘路校区yfj0102教室举行。各个学院的参赛选手们济济一堂，共同体味英语文化的无穷魅力。现办公室工作总结如下：
（一）活动感悟
本次英文演讲名人模仿秀大赛以“怀旧经典，流金岁月”为主题，为选手们提供了一个充分展现自我的舞台。
首先进行的是主题演讲比赛。选手们自由选定模仿对象，有的模仿马丁·路德·金，激情澎湃的演讲让人热血沸腾；有的模仿奥巴马，意气风发，让人豪情满怀。他们特色鲜明的演讲给大家留下了深刻的印象。参赛选手们水平不相上下，比赛十分激烈。他们的动作恰到好处，他们的模仿惟妙惟肖，娴熟流利的英语脱口而出，现场经久不息的掌声更为选手们增添了信心。比赛过程中还穿插了猜单词的现场互动节目，台下的观众们踊跃上台参与，现场气氛相当活跃。
(二)精神体现
在准备比赛的过程中，选手们努力背诵、理解演讲稿，并仔细揣摩语调，在此过程中不断超越自我完善自我；本次比赛中，各参赛选手态度积极并在准备过程中努力创新，展现出各种不同ppt风格；演讲台上，不怯场、不退缩，将自己最精彩的一面展现出来，这种善于拼搏的精神值得学习与发扬。
（三）签到工作
活动前签到虽只是一件很小的工作，但我们部门积极认真的负责人员签到，坚决发对代签，以此调动了学生会各部门参加个活动的积极性。
办公室作为负责签到的部门，做到内部成员无特殊原因的都积极参加，并坚决反对以权谋私代人签到。
（四）啦啦队
办公室为单位组成一个啦啦队，并邀请其他部门加入，一起为生化学院加油。
在位选手加油的同时，我们办公室为活跃演讲气氛，积极配合选手演讲，一句简单的“yes,we can”喊出了默契，喊出了团结，喊出了希望。
（五）获得奖项
经过激烈的角逐，来自生化学院的张烜同学以《beat yourself》赢得本次大赛的冠军。亚军由来自计算机工程学院的黄志凯和来自人文学院的卢进军摘得。经济管理学院的朱杰、电子与电气工程学院的朱福明、外国语学院的杨许可和生化学院的谷章春获得季军。
（六）注意点
活动过程中部员更加注意个人举止，遵守现场秩序，不打闹嬉戏，不大声喧哗，认真听完演讲，并努力向他们学习，更加努力学习英语，当一个更加称职的学生干部。
生化学院团总支 办公室
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2010年12月1日篇二：英文模仿演讲对学生英语学习的促进作用
英文模仿演讲对学生英语学习的促进作用 作者：李丹丹
来源：《新课程学习·下》2014年第09期
摘 要：英语学习强调学生语言综合运用能力，注重提高学生用英语进行思维和表达的能力和跨文化能力。因此，教师应注重培养学生的语用能力、口语交际力和跨文化交流力。通过自身实践，探讨英文模仿演讲对学生英语学习的促进作用以及对英语口语表达的提升作用。关键词：模仿演讲；模仿展示；实践过程；文化学习；语言习得；口语表达；思维训练《普通
高中英语课程标准（实验稿）》指出：高中英语课程应强调在进一步发展学生综合语言运用能力的基础上，注重提高学生用英语进行思维和表达的能力和跨文化交际力。因此，教师应该注重学生的语用能力，培养学生的口语交际能力以及跨文化交流能力，让学生具有国际化视野。在现实生活中，学生在课堂上不敢开口，即使开口，所能表达的内容也非常有限。究其原因：学生大多是在汉语的环境中学英语，缺乏语用氛围；在课堂上少数英语基础较好的学生或者性格较为外向的学生容易霸占课堂；我们课堂的形式或者课堂的活动也较为单一；我们所用的英语缺乏真正的环境，学生在课堂上根据教材内容有目的地进行操练，在不了解国外文化的同时，很容易使用“中国式英语”即“chinglish”。笔者结合教学实践，探索英语模仿演讲这一活动形式对学生英语学习，尤其是对学生英语口语能力提升的促进作用。
一、实践过程与策略
1.探讨与分组环节
利用本校研究性学习课程开设时间，将高一、高二各一个班的学生进行集中和分组。教师加以引导，由学生进行讨论，要求一：讨论出自己最感兴趣的话题类别；二：说出自己最喜欢或者是最崇拜的名人；三：模仿演讲者，演讲内容为英文。按照讨论结果进行分类。类别为： a.政界类别，如：barack hussein obama jr.george walker bush，hillary clinton...b.科学类别，
c.时尚类别，d.社会学类别，e.饮食与健康类别，f.经济类别，g.其他。分类后学生根据各自的组选出自己最喜欢的名人或者最感兴趣的话题，借助ted等相关网站和视频找出相对应的人物演讲视频。
2.探寻演讲背景，人物简介
在此环节，学生要给出所选视频的社会和文化背景，以及演讲者的个人简介。同时在自愿原则的前提下，学生给出选这段视频的原因。（可能是出于对演讲者的崇拜或者是个人对这个专业领域较为感兴趣）如：《青少年探索进行时》，所选这段视频的学生tom：（1）tom给出选这段视频的原因是喜欢泰薇·盖文森，觉得他具有探索的精神，自己也非常喜欢探索，喜欢拥有自己的世界??（2）给出这场演讲的社会背景，（3）tom也给出演讲者泰薇·盖文森（tavi gevinson）的简介，如：泰薇·盖文森（tavi gevinson）人称“13岁小屁孩时尚偶像”。泰薇·盖文森在2008年3月开始写自己的博客“style rookie”时年仅12岁，泰薇·盖文森的故事被刊登在《纽约时报》上，更被少女时尚圣经teen vogue点名力捧，一时红透网络，这位现在（2009年）年仅13岁的博客写手，通过自己的博客聚敛了将近400万的忠实读者??
3.模仿演讲练习阶段
学生将自己选出的演讲视频（视频的截取时间依据整个研究性学习课时定为每人2分钟）和演讲稿件准备好，进行模仿演讲，此环节的前部分可以利用假期或者课余时间进行。在下次课的集中时间前，教师将视频和稿件收集整齐，部分学生若无法自己选择可以在教师的帮助下完成此环节。在课上，教师给予学生相应的指导，从语音语调到演讲技巧、模仿细节。同学之间也可互相展示，不断进行调整和修正。学生进行朗读、记忆、纠错、模仿（此环节要在观看视频基础上进行），循序渐进。
4.展示和对决阶段
经过视频选取，模仿练习后先进行组内展示淘汰，再进行小组与小组之间对决，最后进行总决赛。在确保每位学生都有机会参与的同时，也要最大限度地调动学生的积极性。每组的展示评选：选两位学生代表和两位教师代表作为评委，各小组分组同时进行。晋级的同学直接进入下一轮的比赛，最后决赛，评出一、二、三等奖。比赛结束后，由教师和学生共同对此活动进行总结和反思。我们不仅要总结出这次活动的收获，更要发现所存在的不足之处，为下次更好的实践做准备。展示部分话题也在此和大家做一个分享：《facebook sheryl sandberg 2012 hbs毕业典礼演讲》，jay walker《谈中国英语学习狂热》，laura trice《建议我们说
出感谢》，资深心理治疗师meg jay《why 30 is not the new 20》，ted演讲：《青少年探索进行时》《传奇编剧阿伦·索尔金2012雪城大学毕业演讲》《奥巴马夫妇2012圣诞节祝福演讲》，《奥巴马纪念朝鲜战争停战60周年演讲》，liz murray励志演讲《风雨哈佛路》，世界银行行长金墉《美国东北大学2013毕业演讲》，amber case《我们现在都是半机器人》《希拉里与盖特纳在欢迎中国代表团晚宴上的讲话》《亚马逊总裁jeff bezos在princeton大学毕业典礼的演讲》，ric elias《坠机让我学到的三件事》。
二、总结和反思
1.学习语言的同时学习文化
《新编简明英语语言学教程》指出：languang as the keystone of culture is tightly intertwined with culture.learning a language is inspeparable from its culture.when learning a foreign or second language，we should not only learn the mere imitation of the pronunciation，grammar，words and idoms，but also learn the ways in which the foreign language reflects the ideas，customs，and behavior of that society，learn to understand their “language of the mind”，or acculturation.作为文化的基石，语言与文化紧密相连，学习语言是无法与学习其文化相分离的。我们不仅要学习语言本身，更应了解相应的文化。为了更好地进行模仿演讲，我们要探讨演讲者做这个演说的背景，探究人物本身的经历，我们的模仿才会更深刻，这个探究的过程会让我们对英语国家的背景和文化更加的了解，同时这种深刻的模仿本身也必将会更促进我们对语言和文化的习得，更利于我们英语的学习和口语的表达。
2.通过模仿演讲学习发音、语法、词汇和习语
我们模仿的对象均为“native speaker”，并且公众演讲的话，英语也是相当标准的。那么学生就可以通过模仿来学习发音。对学生来说这个方法也比较容易操作。同时我们在模仿演讲的文本内容中学习语法，学习词汇，学习发音，这就在不知不觉中增加了我们的词汇量，增强了我们的语感，而且也有利于我们今后对这些词汇、习语和语法的运用。
3.促进学生口语表达能力
语言是有声的，在语言学习过程中学习者必须开口说，否则学生就不能获得使用有声语言进行交流的能力。这就要求教师创设环境，给学生表达的机会。如果直接让学生进行表达较难开口的话，那么通过模仿演讲，让学生自觉开口表达自我，这样实施起来也较为容易，可以在不知不觉中提升学生的口语表达能力。
4.激发学生学习英语的兴趣
在《给教师的建议》一书中指出：兴趣的源泉在于把知识加以运用，使学生体验到一种理智高于事实和现象的“权利感觉”。在人的心灵深处，都有一种根深蒂固的需要，这就是希望自己是一个发现者、研究者、探索者。让学生能自己去探讨、自己去选择人物和话题、自己去探讨演讲者的社会背景和经历，这个是他们的兴趣所在。给予他们选择、探讨和发现的机会，这样更容易激发学生学习英语的兴趣。
5.训练学生的思维，锻炼学生的表达能力和胆量
通过模仿演讲可以很好地训练孩子的思维，虽然是模仿，但演讲本身是具有一定的逻辑性的，通过演讲锻炼学生的思维。同时学生要进行展示，对学生而言，需要胆量和勇气，通过这种方式可以很好地锻炼学生的表达能力和展示的胆量，提高学生的自信心。
6.有利于构建和谐的师生关系
活动本身就是一场师生互动，而在这场互动中，以学生为主体。给予他们讨论和选择的空间，他们更容易和老师进行交流、互动和探讨。同时，通过学生所选题材，教师也可借此机会更好地了解学生，以后的教学中也更容易引导和激励他们，从而利于和谐师生关系的构建和英语教学。通过对学生进行分组，研究学习后，笔者发现英文模仿演讲比较容易操作，同时对
学生英语学习有很好的促进作用，能很好地增强孩子口语表达能力。
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作者简介：李丹丹，女，出生于1984年12月，学历：本科，江苏省苏州市苏州蓝缨学校，中学英语教学。篇三：名人英语演讲稿
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tribute to diana
致戴安娜——查尔斯·斯宾塞
在全世界，戴安娜是同情心、责任心、风度和美丽的化身，是无私和人道的象征，是维护真正被践踏的权益的旗手，是一个超越国界的英国女孩，是一个带有自然的高贵气质的人，是一个不分阶层的人。
this is the text of earl spencers tribute to his sister at her funeral. there is some very deep, powerful and heartfelt sentiment. would that those at whom it is aimed would take heed. the versions posted on several news services had minor errors. this is precisely as it was deliverd.
i stand before you today the representative of a family in grief, in a country in mourning before a world in shock.
we are all united not only in our desire to pay our respects to diana but rather in our need to do so.
for such was her extraordinary appeal that the tens of millions of people taking part in this service all over the world via television and radio who never actually met her, feel that they, too, lost someone close to them in the early hours of sunday morning. it is a more remarkable tribute to diana than i can ever hope to offer her today.
today is our chance to say thank you for the way you brightened our lives, even though god granted you but half a life. we will all feel cheated, always, that you were taken from us so young and yet we must learn to be grateful that you came along at all. only now you are gone do we truly appreciate what we are now without and we want you to know that life without you is very, very difficult.
we have all despaired at our loss over the past week and only the strength of the message you gave us through your years of giving has afforded us the strength to move forward.
there is a temptation to rush to canonize your memory. there is no need to do so. you stand tall enough as a human being of unique qualities not to need to be seen as a saint. indeed to sanctify your memory would be to miss out on the very core of your being, your wonderfully mischievous sense of humor with the laugh that bent you double, your joy for life transmitted wherever you took your smile, and the sparkle in those unforgettable eyes, your boundless energy which you could barely contain. but your greatest gift was your intuition, and it was a gift you used wisely. this is what underpinned all your wonderful attributes. and if we look to analyze what it was about you that had such a wide appeal, we find it in your instinctive feel
for what was really important in all our lives.
without your god-given sensitivity, we would be immersed in greater ignorance at the anguish of aids and hiv sufferers, the plight of the homeless, the isolation of lepers, the random destruction of land mines. diana explained to me once that it was her innermost feelings of suffering that made it possible for her to connect with her constituency of the rejected.
the world sensed this part of her character and cherished her for her vulnerability, whilst admiring her for her honesty. the last time i saw diana was on july the first, her birthday, in london, when typically she was not taking time to celebrate her special day with friends but was guest of honor at a fund-raising charity evening. she sparkled of course, but i would rather cherish the days i spent with her in march when she came to visit me and my children in our home in south africa. i am proud of the fact that apart from when she was on public display meeting president mandela, we managed to contrive to stop the ever-present paparazzi from getting a single picture of her.
that meant a lot to her.
these were days i will always treasure. it was as if wed been transported back to our childhood, when we spent such an enormous amount of time together, the two youngest in the family.
fundamentally she hadnt changed at all from the big sister who mothered me as a baby, fought with me at school and endured those long train journeys between our parents homes with me at weekends. it is a tribute to her level-headedness and strength that despite the most bizarre life imaginable after her childhood, she remained intact, true to herself.
there is no doubt that she was looking for a new direction in her life at this time. she talkedendlessly of getting away from england, mainly because of the treatment she received at the hands of the newspapers.
i dont think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered at by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bring her down. it is baffling. my own, and only, explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.
it is a point to remember that of all the ironies about diana, perhaps the greatest was this; that a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age.
she would want us today to pledge ourselves to protecting her beloved boys william and harry from a similar fate. and i do this here, diana, on your behalf. we will not allow them to suffer the anguish that used regularly to drive you to tearful despair.
beyond that, on behalf of your mother and sisters, i pledge that we, your blood family, will do all we can to continue the imaginative and loving way in which you were steering these two exceptional young men, so that their souls are not simply immersed by duty and tradition but can sing openly as you planned.
we fully respect the heritage into which they have both been born, and will always respect and encourage them in their royal role. but we, like you, recognize the need