Good evening! ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the 7th New Seedling Cup English Speaking Competition of HUIE.
Male: First, let me introduce the hostess for today, a pretty young lady her name is__Who is from English Dept.
Female: standing here beside me is Mr.__He is also from English Dept.
I"m honored today to co-host this year"s speaking competition.
Female: The Seedling Cup English Speaking Competition is and has become the traditional event, which takes place annually, we feel really happy and excited that we can be part of this competition not only because it is a good opportunity for the English learners to demonstrate their language skills obtained by hard working.
Male: But because it is through this event we can make friends from different classes and different depts. a chance that is not easy for each one candidate who has been gone through the first and second maybe third round, come to this stage for the finals, and more importantly, we learn something from the contestants and the whole processes. I personally benefit a lot and I believe so.
Female: Since we started this competition 7 years ago, it has drawn the attention of thousands of young people and has proven to be the most prestigious English speaking competition on our campus.
Male: Ok now I would like to announce what we are going to have tonight.
Male: There will be ____ items, first...
Female: and second...
New Seedling Cup English Speaking Competition, Three-year Non-English Major freshmen group.
Male: Now let"s start from the first one __.
Female: quite agree with you. Ok let"s move on to our second item for tonight...
Male: The New Seedling Cup English Speaking Competition aims to promote English language learning and to train students with the knowledge of different cultures of the world.
Female: We hope it will be a good opportunity for the participants to display their talents in language and public speaking and to exchange ideas on important current issues.
Male: We also hope that you, the audience, will enjoy this exciting competition and benefit from what we hear.
Female: The format of today"s contest is:
Male: first one ----Read aloud, each contestant is required to read a short speech within 2 minutes.
Male: The second part of contest is a Q&A, each contestant will meet the challenges from one or two question masters, and the question is based on the situation. You got 3 minutes to do that.
Female: Now let"s introduce the lucky contestants who survive for today,
Male: There are all together___contestants from___depts. competing in today"s English speaking competition.
Male: Ladies and gentlemen, this competition will be mediated by a panel of seven judges. The panel includes three native speakers of English and four Chinese English teachers. And all the judges will act as the "question masters who will be responsible for raising questions of today"s contest.
Female: Now, let"s meet our honorable judges for tonight, Miss Wang Hui, English teacher of F.L.D
Female: Mr. WangYiPing, English teacher of F.L.D
Male: Miss LiXiaoHong , English teacher of F.L.D
Female: Professor Wu Xiao Feng, English teacher of F.L.D
Male: ___ foreign teacher from ____
Female: ___foreign teacher from ____
Now let"s go over the rules of the competition.
Now let"s give you a brief account of grading method and scoring results: there are 10 points in grading, and each judge gives grade based on the performances of the contestants: including pronunciation, intonation, content, stage manner and presentation. The final score is the averaged calculation of seven figures summing up.
Each of the contestants have 2minutes to read the short speech, 3minutes to answer questions raised by the judges. During the first part, a staff member will raise a red cardboard as a signal that there is one minute left. Then, at the end of minutes, a bell will ring to let the speaker know that the time has run out, so please ring the bell. Thank you!