江苏省如东县实验中学  周俊梅

江苏省中学生英语口语电视比赛2002年由省教育厅立项，旨在为我省各级各类中学生提供基于信息技术支持下的英语学习和交流平台，为广大学校英语口语教学改革提供学习资源和引导。作为此项赛事的承办单位，江苏省电教馆一直精心设计活动内容和形式，充分体现以人为本的教育思想，体现基础教育课程改革理念，体现学科教学特色和信息技术优势。

江苏省初中生英语口语电视比赛由四部分组成：自我介绍、命题演讲、即问即答和小组合作秀。它既能体现出参赛同学的英语口语基础水平，更能反映出他们的观察力、思维想象能力、创新能力、合作能力等综合素质。有幸的是我连年带队参加此项活动，事后思考总结，收益颇丰。

其实自我介绍、命题演讲、即问即答、小组合作秀四个环节都各有各的特点和规则。

一. Self Introduction(自我介绍)

     自我介绍规定时间90秒，它非常正式（formal）,通常不需表演和唱歌，一律不允许配音响和背景图象。在自我介绍中通常用I而不用he或she。通常不说I’m  a sunny boy.或I’m a  lovely girl ，且结尾忌用That’s all. That’s OK!通常说Thank you.或Thank you for listening.

自我介绍要有层次性，切不能弄成一团糟。你一般可以遵循以下的层次Your name，  Your school，  Your subjects ，Your study ，Your hobby ，sport ，basketball ……。During the Self Introduction, you should emphasis with great

power at the end of the Self Introduction, such as: Don’t forget me! Believe me! Please remember me.

自备节目常常先入为主，容易给人留下较深刻的印象，于是要高度重视自备节目，自备节目一定要富于个性，要能体现自己的特色，给人以耳目一新的感觉。比如你喜欢钢琴，你就可以就这一点展开，写出与之有关的一系列感触颇深的事件。自备节目的行文要易读、押韵，流畅，便于演讲。演讲时语速要注意轻重缓急、抑扬顿挫。Try to remember: slow down and slow down ，don’t speak too fast. Of course, during the Self Introduction, your body language is very

Important , too. If you are happy, thirsty, hungry, scared, proud, sad, excited ,

shy and so on， You should also show the expression to support the idea.这时你的表情要自然、真实、富有感性，眼睛要顾盼神飞，只有这样你方可抓住评委以及观众的心，为整个比赛的成功作好铺垫，例如:

Ladies and Gentlemen:

I’m Wu Tianyi from Rudong Experimental Middle School. If you come to our class, you will be deeply impressed by a boy who is tall and thin. He is energetic and active with a gentle smile on his face most of the time. He can answer the teachers’ questions most quickly and solve the hardest problems fastest. When he was young, he became interested in listening songs, especially, English songs by Back Street Boys. In order to understand their songs more clearly, he has kept improving his English. And he is excited to see himself making more and more progress day by day. Actually, English has become an important part of his life. Besides that, he’s fond of sports, and his favourite sport is playing basketball. He plays basketball quite often after school. He

thinks skills and teamwork come first in basketball. He is always ready to

help others and everyone in his class wants to make friends with him. Maybe you would like to know who the boy is. Of course, it’s me, Wu Tianyi , a quick, confident and open minded boy from Rudong Experimental Junior Middle School.

Thanks for listening!

二、Impromput speech(话题演讲)

命题演讲相当于口头作文。临时给个Topic给你，只有40秒的准备时间，然后限你用90秒时间把整个话题用英语绘声绘色地演讲出来。它不但要求选手有过硬的英语基本功，还要求选手有很强的应变能力和组织能力，所以它是整个英语口语比赛中最难的部分，其实它也最能体现参赛选手的真实水平。我发现，要想在这部分取得好的成绩，待拿到Topic后，先要考虑如何布局？如何破题？准备讲几个方面？然后再自由发挥，既就是心中有个演讲提纲。

命题演讲破题的切口要小，要从生活中贴近的东西入口，要将抽象的问题具体化，要就其一点，拣最能说的，最能感人的最生动的一个例子，要尽可能地游移到自己亲生经历的事情中去，在演讲过程中，万一大脑出现短暂空白，要巧妙地运用过渡语，如In my opinion. Well. I think.等，给自己大脑一个思考的空间，切不可冷场。

当然平时不积累，想一下子出口成章，无异于痴人说梦。于是我们平时要多找话题来进行操练。如人物类（姚明，爱因斯坦，爱迪生，比尔.盖茨，雷锋，我的老师，同学等），体育类（在运动会上，一场精彩的足球赛，慢跑，放风筝等），文史类（长城，自由女神像，大本钟等），环保类（如何保持水的清洁，植树，戒烟等），现实问题类（电子词典和我们的英语学习，孩子们应该从小学英语吗？父母只应该关心学生的学习吗？年轻人追赶时尚对吗？）从而学会快速破题，学会快速布局全文，以便提高自己瞬间语言组织能力。同时拿到命题后要学会将平时训练积累的东西有效地融合进去。

其实Impromtu speech也自有它的完整建构。

                 1. Greeting: Hello! /Good morning /afternoon…

             2. Topic: My topic is…

             3. Talk: ……

Formula      4. Tie up: Stress your topic, stress what you said. Tying up is

very important. You should emphasis your topic and your view.

             5. Goodbye: Thank you!/Thank you for listening.

最后You should remember using up the time is very important.

In a word, a good speech应同时具备完整的formula,优美的pronunciation,丰富的emotion,强大的cohesion,自然的coherence以及富有感性body language.忌颠三倒四，缺乏条理。

三、Question and Answer(现场问答)

现场看图回答三个问题，时间要求是一、二两个客观性的问题各15秒，第三个主观性问题30秒。第一个问题一般是叫你Describe a picture(有什么): just say what you can see, state the obvious things, usually use “I can see…”. Don’t talk about what you think of….Don’t say I’m not sure. You should usually describe the picture from top to bottom, its colours and name. You should

describe everything you can see in the picture.第二个问题一般是叫你Describe a person in the picture（干什么）:Just say what she or he is doing. 第三个问题是一个主观性问题，不能只回答Yes 或No，阐述the reason to the question.通常是谈谈你的感想和做法。这就要求我们的识图能力要强，要领悟其中的寓意，要有创新精神。于是我们平时要关心时事与社会问题。要时常从网上、报刊上选取图片，有意识地去锻炼自己，以最短的时间，用最有把握的语言将所给图片表达出来。

四、Team co-operation(小组合作秀)

    第四环节小组合作秀。每组三人，准备时间90秒，合作时间180秒。它是一个集体协作节目，要求三人通力协作，既不可冷场又反对抢话题：即在学会倾听的同时又要不时用英文阐明自己的观念,当然还得根据所给话题确定小组合作秀的表现形式，是采取师生对话？记者采访？还是同学辩论？……就全靠三人的领悟与决断。训练题有 ①The good and bad effects on TV ②What is the most valuable quality of teenagers in  your eyes?  ③Is it important to learn every subject well?④If you are organizing a New Year party for your class. What activities will you include and why?……。

不过，我觉得英语口语电视比赛取得成功的重中之重是扩大自己的知识面，丰富自己的词汇量（enlarge your vocabulary），只有这样你才能做到战无不胜。.

最后愿我的肤浅总结与思考会给你以抱砖引玉之效。