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中学生英语口语比赛题材和内容(实用20篇)

鸟儿让我铭记,是因为它拥有优美的歌喉;大海让我铭记,是因为它拥有翻滚的波涛;而这一天让我铭记,是因为有特殊的意义。本文是开学吧为你们分享的一些关于中学生英语口语比赛题材和内容优秀作文,供大家学习,希望能帮助到您。

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面试英语自我介绍实用内容

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part-time job: 兼职工作

full-time: 全职

position / vacancy: 职位,空缺

manager: 经理

director: 主任

president: 董事长,总经理

General Manager: 总经理

salesperson: 推销员

engineer: 工程师

accountant: 会计

degree: 学位

introduce:(动词)介绍

introduction: (名词)介绍

Let me introduce myself. / Let me do some introduction. 让我来介绍一下自己。

Which aspect do you want to know about me?

或者 What do you want to know about myself? 您想知道我哪方面的情况?

面试英语自我介绍的常用基本的句子

1. I noticed that you advertised a job in this morning’s paper. 我看到你们在今早的报纸上刊登的招聘广告。

2. I’m coming for your advertisement for …. 我是来应聘你们广告上的……职位的。

3. I have applied for the position of …. 我申请了贵公司的……职位。

4. Do you have any job for a part-timer? 你们需要兼职吗?

5. I’d like to know if you need any full-time secretary. 我想知道你们是否需要全职秘书?

6. I’m looking for a job. Are there any vacancies? 我在找工作,请问你们有空缺吗?

面试英语自我介绍的常用句型

1. I got a degree in Literature and took a course in typing. 我获得了文学学士学位,还学过打字。

2. I haven’t done anything like that before. 我以前没有做过这种工作。

3. I think I’m quite fit for assistant’s job. 我觉得我很适合做助理的工作。

4. I used to work as a sale’s manager. 我以前做销售经理。

5. I’m quite familiar with editing. 我做过很多编辑工作。

6. I want a job with a vacation every year. 我想找个每年都能度假的工作。

7. I was thinking of a job in a school. 我打算到学校找份工作。

8. I worked in the accounting section of a manufacturer of electrical products. 我曾在电子产品制造商的会计组工作。

9. I love playing tennis. 我喜欢打网球。

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篇1:英语比赛中学生日记300字

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周五早上,下了第二节课要去参加英语比赛。虽然准备比较充分但我的心情还是有点紧张。万一过不了预赛怎么办?“叮铃铃,叮铃铃”第二节课下课的铃声响了,我拿起水杯,飞快的向外跑去。

到了赛场,哇!真是人山人海,有的大人在着急的等待,有的同学紧张的要哭,还有的同学紧张的直冒汗……我找了一个空,挤了进去。轮到我抽号了,就要这个吧!打开一看,耶!是39号,不错,和我的参赛号一样。我拿好笔和纸,信心十足的上楼做听力。之后又满怀希望的回一楼讲了一个英语故事。最关键的时刻到了,马上就要公布成绩了,我又紧张起来。我也感觉到我的手心一直在冒汗,以前从来没这么紧张过。人名一个一个的念着,我的心情也是时起时落,终于在最后颁发的一等奖获得者名单里念到我的名字了,“我得了个一等奖,这表示我晋级了!”

加油!相信自己能走到最后。我兴奋的对自己说。

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篇2:英语演讲比赛

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When early man invented clothes,he probably wanted to keep warm.I am sure he never intended that it should become as elaborate as it has become today.For many a year,traditional clothes and modern clothes have been in competition as to which of them make the wearer more beautiful.But it does seem that a lot of modern clothes are simpler and more practical.Perhaps we are moving back to the age of cavemen who wore clothes for practical purposes.

Modern clothes are definitely more practical as against traditional clothes.Almost all people now wear modern clothes.Nowadays even more and more people wear casual clothes.Jeans are everywhere except at formal parties.T-shirts are common,too.They look comfortable and fashionable.However,there are also a lot of people who take the trouble to dress well in formal clothes like shirts,trousers and suits.I find them smart,too.

But then,it is important to hold on to our topic.In my opinion,each type of dress has its place.Modern clothes are ideal for most situations,while casual clothes are worn more freely.As to traditional clothes,they must be worn for special occasions

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篇3:2024圣诞节英语手抄报内容

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1 A cheery Christmas and the New Year hold lots of happiness for you!

2 A Christmas greeting and good wishes to you who is thought about all the year through. Have a beautiful Christmas and a happy New Year.

3 A Christmas greeting to cheer you from your daughters.

4 A Christmas greeting to cheer you, my good friend.

5 A Christmas wish from your nephew.

6 A holiday wish from your son Tom.

7 A Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

8 A merry Christmas from all of your students.

9 A merry yuletide!

10 A present from me is on the way. Hope youll like it.

11 A special card from your grandson.

12 A wish for a truly merry Christmas and may the joy of Christmas linger in your heart all the year!

13 At Christmas and always, may peace and love fill your heart, beauty fill your world, and contentment and joy fill your days.

14 Beautiful dream comes true.

15 Best of luck in the year to come.

16 Best wishes for a wonderful new year.

17 Best wishes from Mark, Janet and the kids.

18 Best wishes on this holiday season.

19 Bring you Good wishes of happiness. This Christmas and on the coming year.

20 Christmas comes but once a year. But when it comes it brings good cheer.

21 Christmas greetings and best wishes!

22 Christmas is the most human and kindly of season, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.

23 Christmas should be a time of banked-up fines, the scent of flowers and wine, good talk, good memories and loyalties renewed. But if all else is lacking - love will do.

24 Christmas time is here. I hope you have a wonderful New Year. May every day hold happy hours for you.

25 Dont forget to hang up the sock!

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篇4:中学生寒假英语日记及翻译

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Sat. , Feb. 6 Fine later cloudy

A book exhibition

Dropped in at National Library to see the National Book Exhibition which will close today. Suprised at the fact that so many kinds of books are published in our country. Thought the childrens books with many pages of colorful illustrations were made very nicely. Bought a copy of the Chinese version of English and American Short Stories at a 20 per cent discount. Am going to read this through in this good season for reading.

书展

信步走到图书馆看即将在今天结束的全国书籍。惊奇的是发现我们国家竟然出版了这么多种的书籍。我觉得富有多页彩色插图的儿童书籍印刷的相当精美。我买了一本打八折的《英美短篇小说》中文版。我要在这读书的好季节里将它读完。

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篇5:我的假期中学生英语

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As it’s known to all, China is popular for its emperor of bicycles. This is because our country is still a developing country and few people can afford private cars. The demand for a means of transport is met by making millions of bicycles available.

Riding a bicycle has a lot of advantages over driving a car. First, it is a physical exercise to ride a bicycle. In contrast, sitting in the car, one tends to gain weight. Besides, it is much more economical to ride a bike than drive a car. On the one hand, the only fee a bike-rider has to pay is the annual tax. However, the annual fees for a car are costly. On the other hand, a bike neednt be equipped with a parking lot, but a car must. Most important of all, it is beneficial to the environment to ride a bicycle because the bike doesnt consume petrol; it is a pollution-free transport. In contrast, the exhaust released by the car is harmful to the environment.

Since China is a developing country with a large population, bicycles will still be the most popular means of transport in China for quite a long time. Most people will still ride bicycles to go to work or to school. The emperor country of bicycles will remain for at least dozens of years.

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篇6:中学生英语日记例文

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Now many students of Grade 9 are under too much pressure. They always feel too tired to listen to the teachers carefully in class.

It’s important for students to relax. Only in this way can they study well and be healthy. Here are some different ways to relax themselves. For example, they can try to have enough sleep,or they can listen to their favourite music after class. They can also read some books or do some sports. For me, I often hang out with my friends.

While you are studying, don’t forget to relax. You will study better after a good rest.

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篇7:过春节的中学生英语作文

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春节是我国最主要的传统节日,很多人都会放下繁忙的工作,回到家,举家欢庆,庆祝团圆。下面小编带来的是过春节的中学生英语作文,希望对你有帮助。

The winter vacation, the Spring Festival, not what can be more symbolic than firecrackers, during the Lunar New Year holiday, the first idea is to set off firecrackers on the street, see the brightly coloured fireworks is a heart itch.

We are back to uncle home a day this year, brother and sister-in-law are "generous", bought a lot of firecrackers in the corner, we saw the child, did not forget to peruse, touch on a few, while this is good, while the good, and some day There were many discussions. From the new year, when their distribution of firecrackers the list of bills.

We can endure the temptation, dont shout, we tried to make it can scarcely wait in front of adults, so they take us back to an exciting, can these people, like we play like teasing, blind, but no one would dare to put forward, it will inevitably. First, so we picked the iron heart, those gadgets, is not easy to detect the box gun hidden in the bag and ran away to steal, we all cherish it! Who have 10 pieces of cannon cleaning hidden in the hidden bag, each other do not stop said: "first put you the more you." "I have no, I do not believe you." "Talk and count it out to me." "Thats no good." "Lets put you." "Mora who lost who" each gun had inevitably twitter controversy, for trouble, also had their own respective, to put aside. From the bag carefully pulled out a root to the ground, then look for a long time, for fear of accidentally brought out off the ground, confirm no later, then took out the eraser box, a wipe, wipe away a head poked out the flame, a walk away, people far away, and then cover your ears, all eyes. The top of a smoking gun, only to be snapped, jumping is happy, after a while, the fried greasy, they all want to see water gun in the water, not easy to find a small puddle, "this is what I find, you dont" grab "is not for you, I then inevitably some unreasonable, then, I do not know who shouted," ignition." They are back to the speaker lit and thrown, simply even ears are not covered, PA, the water splashed up here, he screamed again, this can be in the water like shooting on land that is easy, it is necessary to experience. I have seen carefully the experienced cannon. I saw that he did not throw it directly after burning it, but he would burn it for half a second and throw it into the water again, so he would throw it repeatedly, or it would be extinguished in the water, which would be a great waste of firecrackers, which is not what we would like to do.

This game a few days later, went to the first day of the new year, at that time, the novelty will be played out, we were more interested. At that time, thousands of households are out shooting, that battle, like battlefield two, we look for the shuttle in the middle there is no fried surplus, it is very lucky to get it, but we still dont give up the 0. 001%s hope.

Until the second day of the new year, firecrackers suddenly stopped, so neat, so coincidentally, occasionally one or two sound system sound, and more people feel quiet, empty, so soon after the Lunar New Years day, yes, really over, that moment, our work is only to wait, wait for the next a long spring festival.

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篇8:英语口语一分钟自我介绍

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My name is ________. I am graduatefrom ________ seniorhigh school and major in ________. There are ________ people in my family. My father works in a computer company. And my mother is a housewife. I am the youngest one in my family.

In my spare time, I like to read novels. I think reading could enlargemy knowledge. As for novels, I could imagine whatever I like such as a well-known scientist or a kung-fu master. In addition to reading, I also like to play PC games. A lot of grownups think playing PC games hinders the students from learning. But I think PC games could motivate me to learn something such as English or Japanese.My favorite course is English because I think it is interesting to say one thing via different sounds. I wish my English could be improved in the next four years and be able to speak fluent English in the future.

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篇9:中学生精品英语日记

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since i came to school, i always dont feel very happy. perhaps as the matters that about my family. i cant stand for some of my relatives, i dont have any words to describe them, but i feel biantai more or less be fit for them, they not only dont know how to love their brother, but also take advantage of us.

yesterday my mother said to me that she would go to Fujian with my uncle. it suriprised me, because everything changs so fast, mom always want to go with them, now her dreamcould come true, at first ,I didnt realize that she will go there, as my little brother, he is only 12. and dad is also so hard, on one hand,I agree with my mom, since she is ill, she need to have a rest. andI hope she can get well soon, on the otherI am against, when i go home, i always want to see my family sit there to wait for me.I think the child need the parents love. to bea child, nothing can be a substitute for the love he needs from his parents and the people around him, they often told us... but we more want our parents around us.I willbemore happiness than my brother,when I go to middle school. they are around me, bur now they all have to earn money for us. i cried when i remembered mother father brother.....

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篇10:中学生暑假英语日记

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If you want to ask me what my drem is. I can’t reply you immediately because I have so many dreams.

When I was very young, I always sang a song to my neighbours. When I finished, they laughed and cheered. At that time, I made up my mind to be a singer. I want to sing many songs in my own style, and spread my happiness to everyone.

At the age of 8, one day, I went to an amusement park with my parents. There were many interesting and exciting things. I played happily. When I wanted to play another one, my mother took me home. So I dreamt to open up a park and let many children play in it while day.

But now, I have grown up. I have ever seen many places of interests in the picture, including White House, Great Wall, Pyramid and so on. How beautiful they are!for this reason, I dreamt to be a traveller and travel round world.

But I know “too many dreams stands for no dream”. So I must try my best to achieve one dream, and I believe I can be successful.

3.How time flies! Today was the forth day since I came here. Everyday was different. Today Mr. Brodie let us Wtch a movie. It’s called “pride and prejudice”. The heroine was very beautiful and clever. The environment was beautiful too. The movie was interesting but I thought our teacher was more lovely than it.

Miss Zhang taught us grammer. It was difficult but important. So we must learn it. It was important for us to learn English. It helped us to talk with foreigners.

In the night, we will have an exam about vocabulary. Our teacher said it was easy so I am sure I can do it well.

4.A good day begins from the morning. In the whole morning, we watched “pride and predudice”. One is lovely and the other is lyrical. They enlarged my idea. I liked them very much. The afternoon was wonderful, too. We read an article about hurricane. There were many new words in it. But we guessed their meaning from the context. I learned a new way to know new words.

Today is great.

[中学生暑假英语日记4则

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篇11:中学生暑假日记题材

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日盼夜盼,总算把这个期待已久的暑假给盼来了。而今暑假已经过去了一大半,回头想想,这时间还真如智者所说的如流水般飞逝,一去不复返呢。

还记得刚考完试的那一刹那,整个人完全都疯狂了,虽说已经快要初三的人了,这个暑假免不了补这补那的为下学期而做准备,一定没有以往的暑假那样整天浑浑噩噩的,记得以前过到后来连几月几号也给忘得精光。但是我还是很兴奋,毕竟开头的十几天是可以愉快的度过的,到后来嘛,不用说了。

暑假刚开始的那几天,没有作业,没有负担,必定是敞开了玩的,这不,时刻表安排的也与以往的学习生活有着天壤之别,早上起来第一件事,就是打开电脑,也不知玩多久,腻了,就找志同道合的同学们下去打乒乓。回到家,吃完饭依旧是坐在电脑前游戏。这样的生活一天一天过的可是很快的,好日子很快就到头了,先是大批的暑假作业降临,其次母亲大人也给我报了暑期补课班,这下,生活又回归到了从前的那样忙碌,每天老清老早就要起来,和那些上班族同挤一辆公交车。而回家呢,也是和那些下了班的白领们再一次“聚首”。这样的生活重复到现在也没有丝毫的改变,虽说现在还是能偶尔和同学们出去玩乐,可生活还是以学习为主导在继续着。

也许你会问我,是否对这样子一板一眼的“学习生活”感到厌烦了吗?不,其实这样子也挺好,每天踏着晨光漫步在大街小巷,回来时又望着夕阳,而补课的时候也并不是一味的老师说同学记这样的形式,我认为吧,我的几位补课老师也还是挺风趣幽默的,所以即使是学习生活还是过得多姿多彩的。

转眼间,暑假即将走到尽头,而我也要迈入人生的一个重要的过渡阶段——初三,而这个暑假的学习也是在为初三的学习打下好的基础,所以我觉得这个暑假虽然没有怎么好好的玩了,但也是值了,至少初三刚上来不用那么紧张了,总之暑假快过去了已成了往事,在初三的学习生活中,我一定会更加努力的学习的!

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篇12:我的房间中学生英语

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Everyone, there is a room for their own, I am no exception. My room has walls, windows, bed, pillow, and desk, bookcase and. Of course, theres a baby - like the Pearl River Piano, finish the homework every day, I will sit on the stool practice half an hour.

Theres a secret in my room that you cant guess. Guess what, what is it? As a matter of fact, my room has two floors, and there is a push door beside the bookcase. Open the door, wow, and staircase, and go up to the platform. This is my little pet - Rabbit white. I have a sunny place, mine mother planted flowers, green onion, Dad cactus.

Sometimes, I wish my room had wings, so that it could fly to the sky, look at the white clouds, feel the white clouds, and try the taste of white clouds, like cotton candy.

I also hope that everything in my room is made of food. Your homework is hungry, you can chew on the desk; like sugar, you can lick the wall; hungry you sleep at night, can you just bite the pillow to chew in any case what does not matter, because all of the food.

Of course, I hope that my room long wheel, so that I can open a house car, ran to the river Yachun home to a good friend. She will be surprised. But I just smiled: "Hey, dont tell you how I dragged my room to your home."

But from dream, back to reality, my most favorite room, or my room, an ordinary little girls room. At noon, after dinner, I will take a quiet lunch break in my room; in the afternoon, after school, I will do my homework in front of the desk. Father and mother often come to my room to help me with my homework. In the evening, I lie in my little bed and go to sleep. In the morning, a ray of sunshine comes into my room and sprinkles on my cozy little bed.

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篇13:2024感恩节英语手抄报内容

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In 1620, the settlers, or Pilgrims, they sailed to America on the May flower, seeking a place where they could have freedom of worship. After a tempestuous two-month voyage they landed at in icy November, what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts.

During their first winter, over half of the settlers died of starvation or epidemics. Those who survived began sowing in the first spring.

All summer long they waited for the harvests with great anxiety, knowing that their lives and the future existence of the colony depended on the coming harvest. Finally the fields produced a yield rich beyond expectations. And therefore it was decided that a day of thanksgiving to the Lord be fixed . Years later, President of the United States proclaimed the fourth Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day every year. The celebration of Thanksgiving Day has been observed on that date until today.

The pattern of the Thanksgiving celebration has never changed through the years. The big family dinner is planned months ahead. On the dinner table, people will find apples, oranges, chestnuts, walnuts and grapes. There will be plum pudding, mince pie, other varieties of food and cranberry juice and squash. The best and most attractive among them are roast turkey and pumpkin pie. They have been the most traditional and favorite food on Thanksgiving Day throughout the years.

Everyone agrees the dinner must be built around roast turkey stuffed with a bread dressing to absorb the tasty juices as it roasts. But as cooking varies with families and with the regions where one lives, it is not easy to get a consensus on the precise kind of stuffing for the royal bird.

Thanksgiving today is, in every sense, a national annual holiday on which Americans of all faiths and backgrounds join in to express their thanks for the year s bounty and reverently ask for continued blessings.

感恩节是美国国定假日中最地道、最美国式的节日,而且它和早期美国历史最为密切相关。

1620年,一些朝圣者(或称为清教徒)乘坐"五月花"号船去美国寻求宗教自由。他们在海上颠簸折腾了两个月之后,终于在酷寒的十一月里,在现在的马萨诸塞州的普里茅斯登陆。

在第一个冬天,半数以上的移民都死于饥饿和传染病,活下来的人们在第一个春季开始播种。整个夏天他们都热切地盼望着丰收的到来,他们深知自己的生存以及殖民地的存在与否都将取决于即将到来的收成。后来,庄稼获得了意外的丰收,所以大家决定要选一个日子来感谢上帝的恩典。多年以后,美国总统宣布每年十一月的第四个星期四为感恩节。感恩节庆祝活动便定在这一天,直到如今。

感恩节庆祝模式许多年来从未改变。丰盛的家宴早在几个月之前就开始着手准备。人们在餐桌上可以吃到苹果、桔子、栗子、胡桃和葡萄,还有葡萄干布丁、碎肉馅饼、各种其它食物以及红莓苔汁和鲜果汁,其中最妙和最吸引人的大菜是烤火鸡和番瓜馅饼,这些菜一直是感恩节中最富于传统意义和最受人喜爱的食品。

人人都赞成感恩节大餐必需以烤火鸡为主菜。火鸡在烘烤时要以面包作填料以吸收从中流出来的美味汁液,但烹饪技艺常因家庭和地区的不同而各异,应用什幺填料也就很难求得一致。

今天的感恩节是一个不折不扣的国定假日。在这一天,具有各种信仰和各种背景的美国人,共同为他们一年来所受到的上苍的恩典表示感谢,虔诚地祈求上帝继续赐福。

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篇14:春节英语的中学生

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Spring Festival is my favourite festival. This years Spring Festival is in February 8th. On New Years Eve, everyone will wear new clothes. My parents and I will go to the Grandpa and grandmas home to eat Nian Yefan. This is the tradition of our family. At the dinner table, my grandmother will prepare a lot of dishes for us to cook hot pot. These dishes are very delicious. Everyone ate very happy. We have forgotten the troubles of the past year, happy to greet the new year. After dinner, I will go back home with my parents. In eight, I will be fireworks at the

threshold of our home. They are very beautiful. Doing this will make me feel very happy. After I put the fireworks, I will watch the Spring Festival Gala. The Gala adds a mood of celebration in the house as people laugh, discuss and enjoy the performance. At eleven, my parents gave me 200 yuan. This is my years new years money. 0 ocolck, the new years bell sounded, we have ushered in the new year. I made a wish. I hoped that that we could have a happy and healthy life next year and everyone in my family could be happy.

The first day of the new year, my father and I had the red antithetical Spring Festival couplets on our doors. Every Spring Festival, both urban and rural a

reas, each household must select a red couplets affixed to the door in order to increase the festive atmosphere. I also cleaned the room with my mom. After the event, I will visit friends and relatives with my parents. This is the custom of the Chinese people to celebrate the Spring Festival.

This is my Spring Festival holiday, I had a very happy. What about you

春节是我最喜欢的节日。今年的春节是在2月8日。在除夕,每个人都会穿新衣服。我的父母和我将去爷爷奶奶家吃年夜饭。这是我们家的传统。在餐桌上,我的祖母会为我们准备了很多的菜肴来煮火锅。这些菜很好吃。每个人都吃得很开心。我们忘记了过去一年的烦恼,幸福地迎接新的一年。晚餐后,我将和我的父母一起回家。在八点时,我会在我们家的门槛放烟火。它们很漂亮。这样做会让我感到很开心。放烟火后,我会看春节联欢晚会。在人们的笑声中,晚会增添了一种喜庆的气氛,并享受着表演的效果。在十一点时,我的父母给了我200元。这是我今年的新年钱。0点钟,新年的钟声响起,我们迎来了新的一年。我许了个愿。我希望我们能有一个幸福和健康的生活明年和大家在我的家庭可以快乐。

新的一年的第一天,我的父亲和我在门上贴了春联。每年春节,无论是城市和农村,每个家庭都必须选择一个红色的对联贴在门口,以增加节日气氛。我也与我的妈妈一起打扫了房间。做完这些事后,我会和我的父母去看望朋友和亲戚。这是中国人庆祝春节的习俗。

这是我的春节假期,我过得很开心。你呢?

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篇15:万圣节手抄报英语内容Halloween

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The word itself, "Halloween," actually has its origins in the Catholic Church. It comes from a contracted corruption of All Hallows Eve. November 1, "All Hollows Day" (or "All Saints Day"), is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints. But, in the 5th century BC, in Celtic Ireland, summer officially ended on October 31. The holiday was called Samhain (sow-en), the Celtic New year.

One story says that, on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those who had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living bodies to possess for the next year. It was believed to be their only hope for the afterlife. The Celts believed all laws of space and time were suspended during this time, allowing the spirit world to intermingle with the living.

Naturally, the still-living did not want to be possessed. So on the night of October 31, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make them cold and undesirable. They would then dress up in all manner of ghoulish costumes and noisily paraded around the neighborhood, being as destructive as possible in order to frighten away spirits looking for bodies to possess.

Probably a better explanation of why the Celts extinguished their fires was not to discourage spirit possession, but so that all the Celtic tribes could relight their fires from a common source, the Druidic fire that was kept burning in the Middle of Ireland, at Usinach.

Some accounts tell of how the Celts would burn someone at the stake who was thought to have already been possessed, as sort of a lesson to the spirits. Other accounts of Celtic history debunk these stories as myth.

The Romans adopted the Celtic practices as their own. But in the first century AD, Samhain was assimilated into celebrations of some of the other Roman traditions that took place in October, such as their day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple, which might explain the origin of our modern tradition of bobbing for apples on Halloween.

The thrust of the practices also changed over time to become more ritualized. As belief in spirit possession waned, the practice of dressing up like hobgoblins, ghosts, and witches took on a more ceremonial role.

The custom of Halloween was brought to America in the 1840s by Irish immigrants fleeing their countrys potato famine. At that time, the favorite pranks in New England included tipping over outhouses and unhinging fence gates.

The custom of trick-or-treating is thought to have originated not with the Irish Celts, but with a ninth-century European custom called souling. On November 2, All Souls Day, early Christians would walk from village to village begging for "soul cakes," made out of square pieces of bread with currants. The more soul cakes the beggars would receive, the more prayers they would promise to say on behalf of the dead relatives of the donors. At the time, it was believed that the dead remained in limbo for a time after death, and that prayer, even by strangers, could expedite a souls passage to heaven.

The Jack-o-lantern custom probably comes from Irish folklore. As the tale is told, a man named Jack, who was notorious as a drunkard and trickster, tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved an image of a cross in the trees trunk, trapping the devil up the tree. Jack made a deal with the devil that, if he would never tempt him again, he would promise to let him down the tree.

According to the folk tale, after Jack died, he was denied entrance to Heaven because of his evil ways, but he was also denied access to Hell because he had tricked the devil. Instead, the devil gave him a single ember to light his way through the frigid darkness. The ember was placed inside a hollowed-out turnip to keep it glowing longer.

The Irish used turnips as their "Jacks lanterns" originally. But when the immigrants came to America, they found that pumpkins were far more plentiful than turnips. So the Jack-O-Lantern in America was a hollowed-out pumpkin, lit with an ember.

So, although some cults may have adopted Halloween as their favorite "holiday," the day itself did not grow out of evil practices. It grew out of the rituals of Celts celebrating a new year, and out of Medieval prayer rituals of Europeans. And today, even many churches have Halloween parties or pumpkin carving events for the kids. After all, the day itself is only as evil as one cares to make it.

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篇16:英语口语自我介绍

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My name is Li Yang.I graduated from Lanzhou University and majored Mechanical Engineering.

I was once a poor student of English,and it was my biggest headache and trouble-maker.I got sick and tired of learning boring grammar rules and lifeless words.

But through hard work in practicing speaking English and breaking away from the traditional grammar games,I found myself a totally different and exciting new world.Not only did I pass Band four and Band six College English Exams very easily with high marks,but importantly,I began to use English.

Finally,I developed a new Language Cracking System myself,I began to teach German not long after I started to learn this terribly difficult language in my own way.It was a miracle but I made it.英语口语自我介绍篇二

Hello everybody.My name is (Lily) .Im (twenty )years old. I live in (beijing)。I very love English. I read English every day. I yell English every day, My favorite sports are tennis and swimming.

I play tennis all the time since Im a child. My father is a doctor and my mother is a teacher. We are all interested in English. My parents want me to be an English thacher when I graduate. I hope we can be friends.lets help each other from now. 英英语口语自我介绍篇三

My name is XX .21years old. Graduated from XX school. My hobbies, such as reading extensively, dancing, singing, etc. I think English is very useful to us, because the world many people speak English, if I can speak good English, I can talk with them and with their friends.

So I hope to have the chance to exercise myself. In my home, my father has three people in the catering company work, my mother is a housewife, I sometimes very outgoing personality sometimes love quiet, I believe I can do this job. Glad to meet you can today.

I hope you can give me this opportunity, thank you。

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篇17:关于中学生母亲节英语作文

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My mother is a village woman, who is already in her fifties. She had very little school education, but she knows that knowledge is of great importance to young people. She often asks me how I get along with my studies and encourages me to study hard.

My mother takes good care of me and does everything she can for me, so that I can spend more time on my study.

Once she was badly ill and had stayed in bed for several days. When I got home to see her at night, I found the light was still on and mother was sitting in bed, making new clothes for me ! I was so deeply moved that tears came to my eyes.

Such is my mother, a kind and hard-working woman. I’ll respect and love her forever.

[关于中学生母亲节英语作文

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篇18:中学生关于旅游的英语作文

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I most like to travel! Travel makes me have fun, and can learn a lot, then I to introduce you to the place where I feel funny, everybody follow me go travel together!

Every time I go to the most place is hangzhou, go to all feel a lot of fun. Summer can go to west lake for a walk, play would be.

You can go to the prince bay park in March to appreciate the beautiful cherry blossoms and gorgeous tulips.

If students want to get a lot of knowledge, I suggest that we can go to hangzhou science and technology museum, there are a lot of science show allows us to try myself.

Shaoxing is the place where I have been to the deepest impression, why? Because the day I first go to shaoxing shaoxing hospital, I had a high fever 40 degrees, also want to know when I was only 4 years old ah, can put the ssi urgent is broken, straight Shouting regret taking me out to play, then mom said to me, if you want to swim in shaoxing, tomorrow I must be able to keep the fever down. Strange to say, in order to swim the day I really cooled down, is really god to help me also. Ha ha, is also a doctor attributed to aunt! The next day I play a day, a good thing they have been dying for ssi also always think Im good. In shaoxing, I visited the former residence of lu xuns grandfather, ancestral, swimming for yu ling, herbals, shen garden, etc.

Then I want to say, hengdian is fun place. Theres really big ah, every scenic spots have to spend two or three hours. Theres a lot of film and television production, I saw a lot of performances, there the first time I have bought a 褀 robe.

Say again lets own here, we have yuhuan park, agricultural sightseeing garden, I think may the students have been to all of these, I think is interesting, there is a place that is mom took me to the LuPu rape and pick strawberries to eat. Im having a great time that day.

I most like to travel!

我最喜欢旅游了! 旅游让我既玩得开心,又能学到很多知识,接下来我向大家介绍一下我觉得好玩的地方,大家跟着我一起旅游去吧!

我去的最多地方就是杭州,每次去都觉得很好玩。夏天去可以西湖走走,宋城玩玩。

三月份去就可以去太子湾公园欣赏漂亮的樱花和绚烂的郁金香。

如果同学们想要获得很多知识,我建议大家可以去杭州科技馆,那儿有很多科学展示可以让我们自己动手去试。

绍兴是我去过的地方印象最深的,为什么呢?因为去绍兴的那天我首先逛的是绍兴医院,我发高烧了,还40度呢,要知道当时我才只有4岁呀,可把老爸老妈急坏了,直喊着后悔带我出来玩,后来老妈对我说:如果想游绍兴,到了明天我必须能退烧了。说也奇怪,为了能游我真的第二天退烧了,真是老天助我也。哈哈,其实也是医生阿姨的功劳!第二天我就好好的玩了一天,这件事情对老爸老妈来说他们一直后怕也一直觉得我好厉害。在绍兴我参观了鲁迅爷爷的故居,祖居,游了大禹陵,百草园,沈园等。

接下来我要说的好玩地方就是横店。那儿可真大呀,每个景区都得花个两三个小时。那儿可是很多电影、电视生产的地方,我看了很多的表演,在那儿我还第一次买了一件褀袍。

再说说咱们自己这儿吧,我们这儿有玉环公园,有农业观光园,我想这些地方可能同学们都去过了吧,我还有一个地方觉得也有意思,那就是老妈带我去芦浦看的油菜花和摘草莓吃。那天我也玩得非常开心。

我最喜欢旅游了!

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篇19:英语口语的自我介绍

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Good afternoon,

It’s my great pleasure to stand here for this interview.

First, let me introduce myself. My name is ** and you also can call my English nickname **.

I like a word said by Napoleon: I succeeded because I will it; I never hesitated. I believe in all time: If you think you can, you can.

I come from **, the capital of ** province and will graduate from the management of department of ** university, in July this year. In undergraduate period, I achieved scholarship when I was sophomore and junior, meantime I became the chairman of pingpong club.

In term of which, you could feel I am an optimistic and active man. Moreover, I am a thoughtful student. Specially, I am pretty good at learning form daily life and study. It is energetic of me to think some meaningful issues. When I face to problems, I am capable of analyzing and settling them by myself. If the matter is special intricate, I also can corporate well with others as a team.

In spare time, I have broad interests like many other young people. Sport and reading are my favorites. I am also a pure sport fan. In all of these, I do well in playing Pingpong, there are several medals I won as the captain of school or department team include individual game and team games. Taking part in some sport game can help me study energetically.

In this fast-change time, I am also skillful in operating computer and network. Frequently I exchange with other people by making comments in the forum on line. In additional, I am familiar with searching for information in internet.

I have past cet6 test, however, I am aware that there’s lots of room to develop my English speaking.

In the past one year, I have been preparing for the postgraduate examination. In this course of studying, on one hand, I gain knowledge in some fields, more importantly accumulated enough study ability and willpower for further developing in this famous school. Now all my industrious work has gain return for this opportunity to present myself here.

I will appreciate it very much if you could send me the chance to further my study toward management.

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篇20:中学生暑假英语日记

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It was the third day of our winter holiday. Today, there are many business in my mother’s company. So my mother told me to help my uncle who is the manager of my mother’s company. I sat in my mother’s office and help her answer the telephone. While I was free, I was writing my homework. Although I also have a lot of time to do my homework, I still do it. Because in my mother’s office, I had nothing to do. If I did nothing, I was wasting my time and my life. I can’t do the foolish thing. We should take good use of our time.

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