怎样写好英语演讲稿
当今社会,交流沟通变得很重要,而公共英语演讲就是其最常见和有效的手段之一。无论是在学习还是工作中,我们会越来越多地接触到公共英语演讲,小到课堂上,工作中,大到学术大会上的发言、总统竞选。一场出色的演讲离不开一份好的演讲稿。那怎样才能写好英语演讲稿呢?一起来看看吧!
结构逻辑要明晰
由于公共演讲一般受众为数十人甚至数百、数千人,再加上演讲环境的不确定性(比如:观众的欢呼,或者抱怨),最好在进入主题后马上给出所讲内容的逻辑框架,以便听众更好的预判整个演讲内容,有利于他们更好地跟随演讲者的思路,达到良好的演讲效果。比如,乔布斯在该次演讲中,开篇稍微寒暄开篇之后,就进入正题,“Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.”学生们马上能做出逻辑预判,我们今天会听到乔布斯谈三点,然后具体关注是哪三点,这种演讲就具备了“audience-centeredness”(以观众为中心)的特质。乔布斯在随后的演讲中明确提到,“The first story is about connecting the dots. My second story is about love and loss. My third story is about death.”由于这种明晰的思路,听众在听完之后也会记忆犹新,不会觉得头脑混乱,毫无所得。
当然,演讲稿的逻辑安排有多种方式,乔布斯的这篇演讲是按照topical order(话题顺序)和chronological order(时间顺序)来安排的。除此之外, 还有spatial order(空间顺序), problem-solution order(提问解决顺序)等等。大家可以根据不同的演讲内容来安排自己演讲稿的逻辑顺序和结构。
基本开篇和结尾的方式
1.State the importance of your topic(指出演讲话题的重要性)。直接告诉听众,你的演讲重要在哪里。比如:今天要做的是一场“英语演讲的艺术”的演讲,那开始就直接指出,该演讲对于大家今后的学习工作将会有重大的帮助,甚至给出一些数据和实例,让听众明白不听这个演讲将会是自己的损失。这样,听众就会很乐意投入到该次演讲中去。
2.Startle the audience(使听众震惊)。例如:要做一场关于“生活方式与疾病”的演讲,开篇就可以给出一组极具冲击力的数据,让听众看到生活方式的不健康将会是多么可怕的事情,这样的震惊使听众能够快速调整状态,投入到听演讲中去。
3.Arouse the curiosity of the audience(引起听众的好奇心)
4.Question the audience(向观众提问)。
5.Begin with a quotation(以引用开篇)。
6.Tell a story(以故事开篇)。
结尾往往可以起到“画龙点睛”的作用,开篇正文再好,如果结尾过于平淡,整个演讲的精彩程度都会大打折扣。那么如何做到“结尾有道”呢?首先,我们来看看乔布斯的这篇演讲稿,他的结尾比开篇更加出彩,采用的是“end with a quotation”,达到的效果是特别引人深思。他在结尾说道,“Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”他不仅在结尾引用这句“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish”,而且重复三遍,强化听众的印象,这句话也被广泛传播,被誉为该篇演讲的“精髓”。
在结尾时,可以用结束信号词让听众明白你要准备结尾了,不要让演讲结束得太突兀,比如,“In conclusion”, “Let me end my speech by saying…”, “I’d like to close my speech this way.”等。具体的结尾方式很多,常见的有:
1.Summarize your speech(总结演讲)。
2.Make a dramatic statement(强有力的陈述),这个不同于引用他人之言,往往是演讲者自己的沉淀和呐喊,非常经典的演讲是Patrick Henry’s legendary “Liberty or Death” oration. 他在结尾时说道,”Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.”
3.refer to the introduction(首尾呼应)。这是体现演讲内在统一的很经典的形式,值得借鉴。
有效掌握演讲写作要点的方法
1.多看。多看一些演讲素材,比如名人演讲,演讲比赛优秀选手的演讲等,积累大量的一手素材,当然也有必要阅读关于英语公共演讲的书籍,本人非常推荐Stephen E. Lucas的《演讲的艺术》。
2.多想。学会分析这些演讲之所以精彩的原因,可以从上面讲的几点入手。
3.多练。在有一定积淀和感觉之后,就要大量练习写作演讲稿,话题可以从日常学习和工作中选取,实用性要强,这样练起来更有兴趣和成就感。
可供参考范文
I don't know what's your dream, I don't care you toward the dreams had met what kind of difficulties. That your heart thinking and thinking in the dream, she is likely, although you may think she is too difficult. She is not simple, it is difficult to change your life, in the process of striving for dreams, you will meet the failure of the countless, countless, countless pain, you will have questioned his own time, will ask god why this is my destiny.
我不知道你有什么样的梦想,我不在乎你朝着梦想前进时曾遇上什么样的困难。那个你放在心上想了又想的梦想,她是有可能达成的,虽然你可能觉得她太困难了。她并不简单,要改变你的生命很难,为梦想打拼的过程中,你会遇上无数的打击、无数的失败、无数的痛楚,你会有质疑自己的时候,会问上苍为何这就是我的命运。
I just want to look after children, my parents, and not to steal to rob, why such a thing could happen to me? Have encountered difficulties, don't give up your dream, difficult days will come, but they always will be the past, great achievement not unrealistic, not like god only when got remarkable talent. She is really exist is that each of us in the heart, the important thing is that you have to believe in, you can do it.
我不过是想照顾我的小孩父母,又不是去偷去抢,为何这样的事会发生在我身上?曾经遇到过困难的人,不要放弃你的梦想,艰难的日子会到来,但它们总将成为过往,伟大的成就并非虚幻不切实际,并非像神一样只有卓越不凡的人才当得了。她是真实地存在于我们每个人心中,重要的是你必须相信——你做得到。
Most people married, day after day and then die of old age, they stop growing, stop exercising, stop trying to surpass himself, and then there are those who love complaining but don't try to change the status, most people don't want to strive for their dreams.
大部份的人成家立业,日复一日然后老死,他们停止成长,停止锻炼自己,停止试图超越自己,然后还有人很爱抱怨却不尝试改变现况,多数人都不想为自己的梦想努力。
Why is that?
为什么?
One reason is the fear of failure, "one thousand things than expected?" Is the fear of success, "I don't have the ability to control after one thousand success?" They don't want to take risks, you spend a lot of time to communication with others, want to let others like you, do you know other people more than the self-understanding, you watch them, know everything, they want to talk to them in a piece of, become just like them.
原因之一就是害怕失败,“万一事情不如预期怎么办?” 再来就是害怕成功,“万一成功之后我没能力掌控怎么办?”他们完全不想承担风险,你花了大量的时间与他人交际,想让别人喜欢你,你认识他人比认识自我更多,你观察它们,知道他们一切事情,想跟他们混在一块,变得跟他们一样。
But do you know? Spent so much time on them, and eventually lost self.
然而你知道吗?花了那么多时间在他们身上,最终却失去自我。
I want you to learn to get along with his candid if you want to achieve a dream, you must remove your heart lu snake (loser), the men of his own dreams, life can have very different special significance. When you find yourself, slowly you will be different with others, began to have their own characteristics. But if you only know to follow others steps and imitate others, you will never become the strongest imitators, but you can be the best himself. I want you to find their own value, others can't see, can't participate in, will expand horizons for you This is you have to know.
我要你学会与自己坦诚相处如果你想达成梦想,就必须将你心中的鲁蛇(loser)去除,朝自己梦想前进的人,生命会有截然不同的特殊意义。当你找到了自我,慢慢的你会与他人有所不同,开始拥有自己的特质。但若你只懂跟随他人脚步以及模仿他人,你永远无法变成最强的模仿者,但你可以成为最优秀的自己。我要你找到自己的价值,其他人看不见,无法参与,也不会为你拓展视野 这是你要了解的。
You are unique, I want you to meet like-minded people, eager for success, hard work, those who want to create life, get along with a dream, a dream of people know: in your success. If you want to have more achievements, if you want to do some had never done before, that you have to invest oneself, must invest in yourself, don't let the prejudices of others become a part of your reality, not holding the mentality of victims through life, even if you met a daunting thing, also want to know you can do it, even if other people don't believe, you also should have confidence This is what I believe, to die!
你是独一无二的,我要你结交志同道合的人,渴望成功的人,努力不懈的人,那些想要重新打造生命的人,与达成梦想的人相处,达成梦想的人知道:成功与否都在自己。如果你想要更有成就,如果你想要做些从未做过的事,那你就必须投资自己,一定要投资自己,不要让他人的成见成为自己现实的一部份,不要抱着受难者的心态渡过一生,就算你遇到了气馁的事情,也要知道你做得到,就算别人不相信,你也要有自信 这是我所相信的,至死不渝!
No matter how bad situation, how dangerous in the future, I can do it, I want to represent a belief, represents a possibility that some of you may be thinking to be more a layer, want to have my own association, want to be engineers or doctors, believe that I can't get you, you can't get you think of hierarchy, unless you start to cultivate your own heart.
不论情况多糟,未来有多险恶,我都办得到,我想要代表一个信念,代表一个可能性,你们有些人可能在想要更上一层,想要有自己的协会,想当工程师或医师,相信我你到不了的,你到不了你想到的层级,除非你开始培育自己的心力。
You simply doesn't even have the habit of reading, I want you to listen to a speech, taking time, get along with yourself, and spent an hour trying to understand myself, until you find yourself. When you live out the self, to live out their own the fate, when you are a unique individual, you will be with the people around is different, I want you to do what others don't want you to reach others don't want to listen to your domain, because then you won't be all day thinking about how to please them, because you want to be different, you want to the next level.
你根本连读书的习惯都没有,我要你去听听演说,懂得花时间,与自己相处,花个一小时试图了解自己,直到你找到了自我。当你活出了自我,活出了属于自己该有的命运,当你是一个独特的个体,你就会与周遭的人有所不同,我要你做别人不要你做的事,达到别人不想理会你的领域,因为这样你就不会整天想着该如何取悦他们,因为你想要与众不同,你想要更上一层。
I want you to cultivate your own heart, if you are still talking about your dreams, also talking about your goals, but it didn't do anything, then you have to make the first move, first you can make your parents proud, let your school pride, you can have touched the lives of one million people, the world will be because of you, because you choose this road, don't let other people ruin your dream.
我要你培育你自己的心力,如果你还在谈论你的梦想,还在谈论你的目标,但却什么都没做,那就先踏出第一步,你可以让你的父母骄傲,让你的学校骄傲,你可以感动百万人的生命,世界会因为有你而不同,因为你选择这条路,别让其他人毁了你的梦想。
In others refused or from time to time, or in a meeting you are releasing doves, or trust someone made you failed to live up to its promise, even if their own state of mind makes you stop again and again lost no power, or repeatedly every day thinking about your dream, then he said to his game isn't over, until I win.
在别人拒绝了或说不时,或在某个会面你被放鸽子,又或者有人取得了你的信任却无法兑现承诺,即使自己的心态使你停下脚步一次又一次的迷失没了动力,还是要每天反复的想着自己的梦想,然后对自己说游戏还没结束,直到我胜利。
You can realize your dream!You can be.
你可以实现你的梦想!你一定可以的。