英语演讲实用技巧举例讲解
1．根据听众对象，注意演讲的总体措词
演讲的总体措词是严肃一些还是活泼一些，是有较明显的说教口气还是用平等的口吻，等等，都要根据听众对象而定。如果场下听众是同龄的学生，那么演讲的内容只要风趣一些往往就能引起共鸣。但另一方面，如果听众大多是上了年纪的教师，太多的笑料反而会被认为 “不严肃”， “不尊重”，而引起反感。
用英语演讲，不要用太多 I feel, I think，老是用I，显得十分主观，狭隘。如果通篇全是 I feel, I think 的内容，会给人觉得缺乏说服力。另外，perhaps, maybe 这样的词语，虽然有 “客气，谦虚”的成分，但太多会让人觉得你演讲的内容有不可靠之处。
还有，在演讲中，要少用you，多用we。用you等于把自己与听众对立起来，而用we则拉近了与听众的距离。比如：You should not smoke．听上去像教训人，而 Let’s not smoke听起来是一个不错的建议。
2．演讲要越短越好
英语演讲应该简洁扼要，直截了当。除非特别需要，一般不要采用中文中的那种迂回曲折的表达形式。据有关专家统计，一般人的注意力一次只能集中约13分钟。所以，演讲长度以10～15分钟为宜。下面一个范文：
Let’s stand up from where we fall down
All the celebrations welcoming the new century were hold in the year 2000, because life without a greeting is like the sky without the sun. Greetings are very important for the whole world, in my opinion.
But I don’t know whether greetings are enough for us. Especially when we meet with failures .I remember quite clearly that when I was a child, if I fall down and was on the brink of crying, my father always told me” Please stand up from where you fall down!”
Yes, we must stand up from where we fall down.
That was a special mid night in 1993.Expectations filled our hearts.
We stared at the TV, hoping excitedly as the voice would fly to our ears.
But at last, each Chinese who loves our motherland was distressed to know the result: Beijing, lost to Sydney by a margin of two votes in the Olympic hosting competition.
Eight years have past, but the frustration has not healed with time at all.
Now, at the beginning of the new millennium, all of the pride and disappointment of the 20th century had gone with the wind. The 21st century, which is full of hope, longing and thought has come. Someone said, we would start from zero on.
Should I really start from zero on?
No! I hold that we should go on with our efforts and ambitions stayed by last century, and make our life better.
“New Beijing, great Olympics!” The voice cries this out around China’s capital, a 3,000-year-old city these days.
Beijing, along with Paris, Istanbul, Osaka and Toronto, has been short listed by the International Olympic Committee as an official candidate city for the 2008 Olympic Games.
Facing the new century, mankind is driven by the revolution of science and technology, world economy is undergoing broad and profound changes. But nobody can deny the fact that compared with developed nations, developing countries are confronted with more pressure and challenges. In order to become famous in the world, we must speed up our international economic restructuring to catch up with industrialized nations.
Supporting Beijing’s bid is a systematic project that can support China’s development efforts.
I believe recycled paper, clean fuel, sorted rubbish, water-saving and energy-efficient facilities will become reality in the coming years for China.
I believe the new century is an era of learning and teaching, and lifelong education has become one of the main trends in the future development of Chinese society.
I believe that, on July 13, our dream of Beijing’s Olympic bid will become true.
Because to millions of Chinese, for China to have the global respect and support that she deserves is not just a dream.
It is a part of our very souls. For we are not only equal members of our motherland, China, but we are also equal contributors to the world as a whole. Let us stand together, all nations in Beijing, in brotherhood, friendship and peace, in 2008 and forever!
3．英语演讲稿的基本组成部分
从大的方面看，英语演讲词实际上是属于一种特殊的说明文或议论文，其基本组成部分是：
1) 开始时对听众的称呼语
最常用的是 Ladies and gentlemen，也可根据不同情况，选用 Fellow students, Distinguished guests, Mr. Chairman, Honorable Judges (评委)等等。
2)提出论题
由于演讲的时间限制，必须开门见山，提出论题。
- the most important point to make is...- My first point is...
- Another aspect to bear in mind is... - It must also be remembered that...
- We mustn’t forget that...- Also, don’t forget that/remember that…
- Now for something completely different...- This brings me to...
- Oh, and another thing...
3)论证
对提出的论题，不可主观地妄下结论，而要进行客观的论证。这是演讲中最需要下功夫的部分。关键是要把道理讲清楚。常见的论证方法有举例法、因果法、对比法等等，具体句型如下：
“换句话说...”
- Put in another way...- Let me put that another way...
- To put that in another way...- In other words...
- Alternatively you could say that...- Another way of saying it...
- To put it more bluntly/more concisely...- If I can rephrase that...
澄清观点
- I will try and put that more clearly/more simply...
- Just in case that wasn’t clear, I will rephrase it
- Don’t misunderstand me, what I mean is...
- I will just repeat that to make it clear.
- It’s important not to confuse/to make a distinction between/to distinguish between...
- This is not to say that...
“一般来说”
- Broadly/generally speaking...- With a few exceptions/without exception.
- In general/By and large/On the whole/Overall - As a rule of thumb
- As a general rule/It’s generally accepted that...
- Usually/often/frequently it is the case that...
谈论细节问题
- More specifically...- To take one specific aspect of this...
- Let’s focus on one aspect of this...- One point bears closer examination...
- If we can concentrate on one aspect of this for a moment...
- there is one detail that is worth focusing on...- Let’s go into this in more detail.
- Upon closer examination/investigation...
由总到分
- From that general rule, we can now look at a specific example
- Time to stop generalizing and start being precise
- What specific points can be drawn from these conclusions?
- Do you want to be precisely wrong or approximately right?
举例说明
- A good example (of this) is...- ...for example...- For instance...
- As an example (of this)...- To take an example...- To illustrate this...
- By way of an example...- An illustration of this is...
- We can illustrate this by...- We can demonstrate this by...
- This can be seen in the following (illustration).- Take X, for example.
- Imagine...- How does this work in practice?
4) 结论
结论要简明扼要，以给听众留下深刻印象。
- That’s all I want to say about this point...
- This concludes what I want to say about...
- ...which concludes what I want to say about...
- That wraps up that point...
- That covers that area
- So it can be seen that...
- So we can see that...
- So I’ve shown that...
- In conclusion then,...
- To conclude this point then, ...
- there’s nothing left to say on this point, I think, so...
- I think that’s covered that one, so...
- That, then, was...
5) 结尾
结尾要简洁，不要拉拉扯扯，说个没完。特别是不要受汉语影响，说些类似”准备不足，请谅解”，”请批评指正”这样的废话。最普通的结尾就是：Thank you very much for your attention。
4．英语演讲稿的语言特征
1)多用实词，多用短句，少用结构复杂的长句
在英语演讲中，and, but, so, then 等虚词要尽量少用，that, which 等词引导的定语从句也只会使句子结构变得复杂，而使听众难以跟上演讲者的思路，从而影响演讲的效果。相反，多使用实词，短句，可使得演讲内容更清晰，气势更磅礴。
2)演讲要注意使用各种修辞手法，增加演讲的感染力和气势。
英语演讲中常用的修辞手法有：渐进(climax)、对照(antithesis)、排比(parallelism)、警句(epigram)等等，例如：
That government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth．(排比)
这个民有、民治、民享的国家将不会从地球上消失。
United, there is little we can not do; divided, there is little we can do．(对照)
团结，我们便将无所不能；分裂，我们则会一事无成。
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty． (对照和渐进)
Sample:
In September, 2008，the American subprime mortgage crisis which lasted more than one year gradually extended to the whole economy system to be an economy crisis all over the world. Its coming not only makes the Untied States face a series of economic problem，but also brings the economic market around the world a great shock: As a country，the Iceland has applied for the bankruptcy; Zimbabwe’s inflation has been out of control; Our neighbor，Korea，since its economic system gets closest to the United States，it suffers much more than other Asian countries in this economic storm.
As for China, we are influenced a lot in this special year. A lot of factories in Guangdong and Fujian province suffered a lot: the difficulty in exporting, the workers were laid off，even made the factory break; A great number of students in universities also feel about the crisis, since it’s hard for them to find a job.
However，as one of the newly developing countries in Asian countries，China has strict foreign exchange control and relatively independent financial system，which can help to reduce the influence that the crisis would bring. Although China is not an utopia in this storm，but we do worry less than the countries we referred to.
Anyway，the new round of economic crisis has come. China，the powerful Titanic has to consider the crash the storm would bring. We should seize the opportunity and try our best to solve the problem. Only in this way can our journey to develop economy safe and harmonious. At last， I’d like to wish our country good luck.
