江苏省21世纪卡西欧杯英语决赛即兴演讲话题集.docx
江苏省21世纪卡西欧杯英语决赛即兴演讲话题集江苏省决赛即兴演讲话题集 1. Why do you think leaders,like company bosses,school principals or prime ministers,are usually men?Will there be more women leaders in the future? 2. Do you think there is too much violence in movies or on TV? Does it have a bad influence on children? 3. Which quality do you think is more important for a students competence, being cooperative or being competitive? 4. Do you agree that money is the root of all evils? 5. If your city decides to grant honourable citizenship in modern times or in the past,who do you think will deserve such honour? Why? 6. Some famous entertainers and sports champions earn large sums of money.Do you think they deserve such large sums of money? Please give your reasons. 7. Many teenagers want to look fashionable or cool.What do you think makes you cool or not cool? 8. What is your attitude toward home tutoring? How do you think it will help your study at school? 9. Should sex education be taught in school or should sex education be the resposibilty of parents? How should it be taught? 10. Which part of a city do you prefer to live in, the old area with more cultural and historical sites or the modern area with shyscrapers or apartment buildings? Give your reasons. 11. Volunteering shows a persons sense of social and collective responsibilty.What kind of volunteer work would you do to help the poor or to improve society? 12. Should famous people be given more privacy?Do we have he right to pry into the lives of famous people? 13. Learning Chinese is becoming more and more popular in the west. If you give three pieces of advice for foreigners who want to learn Chinese, what would they be? 14. If your home was on fire and you had to leave immediately, what three objects would you take with you and why? 15. To improve urban transportation,should the government limit automobile production or build wider roads? 16. Do you think encouraging high school students evaluate and criticize their teachers is an effective way to improve the quality of education? Why or why not? 17. Some people think that our personal growth as well as advances in science and technology,depends on making mistakes. From your point of view, are mistakes necessary for discovery or progress? 18. Which is a better way to prepare young people for leadership: developing a spirit of competitiveness or one of cooperation? 19. Whom would you like to share your secret with: best friends,parents,strangers or people on the internet? Why? 20. Do you agree that the best way to teach children-whether as an educator, employer, or parent-is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones? 21. A recent survey found that it would take students and families at least 15 years to pay off their education? Do you think this expense worthwhile or too high? 22. If you have the right to choose one Chinese writer for the Nobel Prize in Literature,who will you choose? Why do you choose him or her? 23. Self-control is thinking before acting ,just like looking before crossing the street. How do you think high school students should build self-control in their daily life? 24. Many traditions and belifs become less important with the fast development of society. What is the most important tradition or belief we should never change with the change of times? Why? 25. Nowadays, quite a few Chinese children are spoiled. Therefore,some parents arrange them to do some tough jobs and hope that they can treasure their easy lives and study hard. Do you think it necessary or helpful? 26. Many high-level jobs are done by men. Should the government encourage a certain percentage of these jobs to be reserved for women? 27. Do you think the pressure to achieve high grades in school seriously limits the quality of learning? 28. Every new generation needs to redefine “right” and “wrong” in its own terms and according to the conditions of its own time. Whats your opinion toward that? 29. High-speed electronic communications media, such as E-mail and television, tend to prevent meaningful and thoughtful communication. Whats your opinion of that? 30. With the arrival of digital life, many students are now becoming SMS(short message service)addicts. For them sending 1000 messages per month is nothing out of the ordinary. Has our mobiles brought us more social interaction or actually isolated us from others?
