介绍自己英语情况的英语作文（汇总20篇）

Shenzhen is a modern city with many places of interest.If you come to Shenzhen,you must visit the following places.The Window of the World is where you can see many famous “buildings” around the world such as the Eiffel Tower and the Tower of London.Shenzhen Happy Valley is a wonderful place for children to have fun.If you want to enjoy traditional

Chinese culture,you can visit Chinese Folk Culture Village.You will have a wonderful time in Shenzhen.

The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China is called the "Ten thousand Ii Great Wall" in Chinese. In fact, it s more than 6 000 kilometres long. It winds its way from west to east, across deserts, over mountains, through valleys till at last it reaches the sea. It is one of the wonders of the world.

The Great Wall has a history of over twenty centuries. The first part of it was built during the Spring and Autumn Period. During the Warring States Period, more walls were put up to defend the borders of the different kingdoms. It was during the Qin Dynasty that the kingdom of Qin united the dif ferent parts into one empire. To keep the enemy out of his empire, Emperor Qin Shi Huang had all the walls joined up. Thus, the Great Wall came into being.

The Great Wall is wide enough at the top for five horses or ten men to walk side by side. Along the wall are watchtowers, where soldiers used to keep watch. Fires were lit on the the towers as a warning when the enemy came.

It was very difficult to build such a wall in the ancient days without any modern machines. All the work was done by hand. Thousands of men died and were buried under the wall they built. The Great Wall was made not only of stone and earth, but of the flesh and blood of millions of men.

Today the Great Wall has become a place of interest not only to the Chinese but to people from all over the world. Many of them have come to know the famous Chinese saying: "He who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man."

中国的长城

中国的万里长城被称为“万里长城”。事实上，它有6000多公里长。它蜿蜒地从西向东，穿过沙漠，越过高山，穿过山谷，直到最后到达大海。它是世界奇观之一。

长城有二十多个世纪的历史。它的第一部分是在春秋时期建造的。战国时期，有更多的城墙被用来保卫不同王国的边界。正是在秦朝，秦国把帝夫的发福部分统一为一个帝国。为了把敌人赶出他的帝国，秦始皇把所有的城墙连在一起。于是，长城诞生了。

长城的宽度足以让五匹马或十个人并排走。沿着墙的是瞭望塔，士兵们常常在那里守望。当敌人到来时，在塔上点燃了火作为警告。

在古代没有任何现代机器的情况下，很难建造这样一堵墙。所有的工作都是手工完成的。成千上万的人死了，被埋在他们建造的城墙下。长城不仅是由石头和泥土建成的，而且是几百万人的血肉所组成的。

今天，长城不仅对中国人，而且对来自世界各地的人都有兴趣。他们中的许多人都知道中国著名的谚语:“没有到达长城的人不是真正的人。”

I’m a primary student. I live happily. I have long hair and a lovely face. But I ‘m very short. Being the shortest girl in my class, I feel shamed of it, though my teacher and classmates always say I will grow taller in the future to comfort me. Besides, I feel very happy in school. There are so many students play with me, and I always do well in study. So, when I go home, my parents also happy, too. My father often take me out to different interesting places. And my mother usually cook delicious food for me. How happy I am!

My name is XXX. I am a local person who is 21years old. I am from chongqing and I am of the opinion that my hometown is a beautiful city.

我的名字叫XXX。我是一个当地的人是21years老了。我来自重庆和我的看法是,我的家乡是一个美丽的城市。

Moreover, I would like to say something about my family. I have my mother ,my father,and my elder sisther,they love me very much,I know my parents have so much hops and dreams for me。So I must study well.

此外,我想说我家庭的一些事。我有我的母亲,我的父亲,我的哥哥sisther,他们都很爱我,我知道我的父母有如此多的蛇麻草和梦想,所以我必须好好学习。

I have the confidence because I have such ability! I am kind-hearted, patient, outgoing and creative. I am a hard working student especially do the thing I am interested in. I will try my best to resolve any problem no matter how difficult it is. I always believe that one will easily lag behind unless he keeps on learning.

我有信心,因为我有这样的能力!我是善良、有耐心、外向和创造性。我是一个勤奋的学生尤其是做这件事我很感兴趣。我将尽我所能去解决任何问题,无论它有多么困难。我始终相信,你将很容易落后,除非他继续学习。

In spare time, I like reading books, surfing on the Internet, listening to music like, classic, or light music, because they can make me feel relaxed. Nobody could keep on working efficiently, therefore proper amusement is a must. In addition, I insist on do some physical training such as running, and horizontal bar as well. By doing this, I can always stay healthy.

在业余时间,我喜欢看书,上网,听音乐,喜欢音乐,古典,或轻,因为它们能使我感觉轻松。没有人能保持工作效率高,因此适当的娱乐是必须的。此外,我坚持做一些体育锻炼,比如跑步、和单杠等。这样做的话,我能够始终保持健康。

That’s all. Thank you for giving me such a valuable opportunity!

这就是全部。谢谢你给我这个宝贵的机会!

[介绍我自己英语作文

Jinan is in locate northern latitudes 36 degrees 40 cent, east longitude 117 degree. Jinan is in South of Mount Taishan and North of Yellow River.there is belonging to warm temperate zone greatly six sex monsoon weather area,clear all the year round,sunshine full in Jinan. The year average air temperature is 14 Celsius degrees, the year average rainfall is 650-700 millimeters.

Jinan is called "Quan Cheng（泉城）"and is coast in Chinese the east economic big province-Shandong the provincial capital of the province.Jinan is a whole province politics, economy, culture, science and technology, education and banking center.Jinan is also a national approval of the coast open city and vice- province class city.The benefit goes down south to govern six areas, one County class City, the total area is 8227 square kilometers, population 5,960,000, among them downtown population 2,600,000.Helping the south is one of the city of"national city comprehensive real strenght 50 strong" and"whole country invest hard environment 40 excellent.

今天是我开学第一天，我们的语文老师---吕老师去教低年级了，我们的语文老师就换成了牛老师。因为牛老师不认识我们，所以牛老师让我们今晚都写一篇关于介绍自己的日记。

我的个子高高的，身体瘦瘦的，但也不算太瘦。我的优点是数学好，上课积极回答问题。我的缺点是自制力太差，管不住自己，总想玩电脑。我最喜欢的运动是溜冰，我在广场的圆弧上三十几秒就能转一圈。

我这学期的目标是考进前三名，因为四年级期末考试时考了全班第五名，所以我新学期的目标就是考进前三名。

这就是我----端木一祥。

初三五班，渊华，年方十六，性别女。

从很小的.时候就开始写自我介绍，到现在也不会用什么华丽的词藻来描述自己。

我喜欢画画，喜欢二次元，喜欢可爱的东西。有时候我也会在草稿上画一些可爱的涂鸦，母亲跟我说这是一个不好的习惯，但我还是乐此不疲。虽然说喜欢画二次元，但我从小到大画过的二次元人物也不超过二十张，大概是因为画的太丑了自己也看不下去了吧，反倒是素描画的比较多。

我是七年级开始接触素描的。当时的美术老师在开一个素描兴趣班，学校有兴趣的都可以去参加。我是被我的姐姐拉去的。结果到后来越画越好玩，画着画着学校成立了书画社，我也就自然而然的参加了。

对于体育这种东西，我还真是难以启齿。我的体育好像一直以来都差到不行，说起来我也是慢吞吞的一个人，干什么都慢吞吞的那种，也不喜欢运动什么的。关于期末考试近四十分的体育成绩，说实话我也不知道怎么来的。

又说到成绩，成绩总是学生的命根。我个人是不太在乎成绩的，因为成绩不是衡量一个人的一切标准。但我又是一个比较好强的人，一直以来都不喜欢输给别人的感觉，在成绩上，也不喜欢。而且学习并不是一件坏事，我认为学习是很有用处的，至少目前看来，学习对我来说很重要。

初中的各个学科我更喜欢的是理科，文科总是让我特别头疼。语文的作文和阅读题总是难以理解，历史的各个时间我也容易混淆，地理总是记了又忘，忘了再记，唯独政治和英语稍稍好上一点。理科中，我最喜欢的又是数学，数学总是给我一种很直白的感觉。

我还有一个小书柜，柜子里放的大多数都是小学到现在的教科书，一本不落。其他还有一些就是新课标必读书目，少少的几本就是疯狂阅读、郁雨君写的小说和一个科幻系列的小说“三体”。比起看言情小说，我更喜欢看科幻类的，言情小说在我眼里总是特别的“玛丽苏”。

有人总说我不像个女生，穿衣打扮什么的都不那么可爱，看书也看那些看不懂的东西，玩游戏手机里也只有一个“王者荣耀”，虽然几个月前卸载了。我的穿衣风格是没话说，虽然我很喜欢那些粉嫩嫩的小裙子，奈何家里的母上大人最不喜欢我穿裙子了，而且我也知道那并不适合我，可能是心理作用。玩“王者荣耀”也是朋友带进去的坑，虽然勉勉强强打到了黄金一的段位，但我还是不得不说这个游戏并不适合我。

貌似扯的有点多了。我的自我介绍里好像没有什么形容词，更多的是简单的陈述句。因为我也不是一幅画，一首诗或者是一朵花，我刻意装点自己，也不会用优美的句子来自我描述，更不会用浓郁的香气来迷惑他人。我觉得我更像是一张白纸，简简单单的就好，在漫长的旅途中经历很多人，很多事，在我的白纸上写下一道道痕迹，仅此而已。

My name isxx.  I am graduate from xxx seniorhigh school and major in xx.  There are xx 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.

这镜子里的小女孩是谁呀?好可爱，圆圆的脸蛋，水汪汪的大眼睛，淡淡的眉毛，一张樱桃小嘴，不大不小的耳朵，还有一头大波浪卷发，我感激我妈，怎么把我生得这么漂亮呀!

姓潘名梓旺，梓是因为缺木，所以取了个带木的：梓，旺是希望我人旺，财旺，事事旺!我小名叫：卡卡。你们也可以亲切的叫我：卡卡!

我的星座是水瓶座，都说水瓶座的人活泼。开朗。性格外向，这说的不就是我嘛。除了这些我还很大方，也很善良。

我的兴趣爱好广泛，我喜欢口才。跳舞。英语。口才可以锻炼我的勇气，敢于上台上演讲，敢于表达，增强我的自信心。我的舞蹈生涯至今已有9个年头，从开始的金刚十八代，到现在能完美的下腰，基本功对年来说已是小菜一碟。我去全国各地参加比赛，多次获得金奖，特金奖的优异成绩。英语在前段时间的南瑞配音大赛中获得二等奖，还须要继续努力，我的目标是一等奖。

我最喜欢吃糖，比如：棒棒糖，巧克力糖，牛奶糖，口香糖………但是不能让我妈妈知道，不然她又要骂我了，说我贪吃。

这就是我，鲜活的我!百分百快乐的我!绝不含“防腐剂”的我!

My Family

there are five people in my family。they are my grandfather，my grandmother，my father，my mother and I 。

My father is doctor。He works in Yueqing。He goes to work on foot everyday。My father is not very tall，but he is strong，he is very kind to his patients and he loves his work。

My mother is teacher。She works in a middle school in Yue Qing。She goes to work by car。She is a very good teacher in my eyes。

I am a student in Yueqing FLS。My school is very beautiful。there are many tall buildings，GREen tress，nice flowers in our school。We have wonderful teachers too。I like studying in my school。

My grandparents don’t go to work any more。they have retired。they stay at home everyday。In the morning they go to the park and do morning exercises。In the afternoon，they drink tea with their friends。In the evening，they enjoy themselves watching TV and reading newspapers。

We have a happy family。I can’t say how much I love it！

我的家人

我家里有五个人。他们是我的祖父，我的祖母，我的父亲，我的母亲和我。 我的父亲是医生。他在乐清市工作。他每天步行去上班。我的父亲个子不高，但他很强壮，对病人很好，他喜欢他的工作。 我妈妈是老师。她在岳青的一所中学工作。她开车去上班。在我眼里她是个很好的老师。 我是一名在乐清市的学生。我的学校很漂亮。在我们学校有许多高大的建筑物，绿色的树，漂亮的花。我们也有很棒的老师。我喜欢在我的学校学习。 我的祖父母不再去工作了。他们已经退休了。他们每天呆在家里。早上他们去公园做早操。下午，他们和他们的朋友喝茶。晚上，他们喜欢看电视和看报纸。 我们有一个幸福的家庭。我不能说我有多爱它！

[介绍家人的英语作文及翻译

我叫岳诚，我是一个活泼可爱的三年级小学生。我的耳朵能听见很远的声音，就算妈妈离我很远，我还能听见妈妈说什么，如果妈妈在楼顶说什么，我在楼下还能听见。

我的爱好是街舞，我坚持一直跳街舞我相信我会成为街舞高手。有一次去广场表演街舞，我很紧张，回家妈妈对我说不要紧张，你一定会跳表演好的，我去演出的时候，我果然没出什么意外，我通过这件事，要对自己有信心。

这就是我，一个聪明的小男孩。

[二年级介绍我自己作文200字

In my mind, mother is the greatest. Because my mother not only gave me life, gave me lots of love. When I meet with difficulties, always can hear mother encouraging words, and when I am happy, my mother is also the most happy.

Remember, when I was two or three, economic difficulties in the home, in order to life, mother left me to work in another city. That day, my mother and I are very miss each other. My mother often calls, is to listen to my voice. And every time I hear the phone ringing, I will be the first to pick up, because I guess may is mothers call, but many phone not mom, that moment I felt very disappointed. As long as I heard my mother to come back to see me, I will jump for joy. But mother come back each time only two or three days of time, and separate time is so long. After mother left, I miss my mom every night to cry, want to mother came back with me. Let me the deepest impression a telephone is: mom, lets move to changsha, I am very happy, because I can always and mother living together.

Finally reunited, but mother because of work need to travel a lot. Every time mother on a business trip, I hate to mother, looked at his mother out of the house, I will run to the window and looked at his mothers shadow gradually disappeared in the crowd. I wonder: mom is in order to make my life better, just work so hard. When I grow up must repay mother well. Now, I want to said to mother: mom, I love you!

Father, how great words; The father love, how beautiful melody. Dear dad, when busy, can you find such a festival of fathers day?

Today, is my dads first holiday, I carefully prepared a card, then tape posted a petal in the upper left corner. It with the aromatic, with my feelings, as the wind blows gently, the beautiful kind hearts float into dad.

The father loves the warmth in June and Thanksgiving. When I was in elaborate greeting card, write the handwriting which asm, I hand in trembling, my heart in the jump, the sincere words from time to time pull at my heart!

In fact, fathers love is gentle, father use it rough hands stroked my head; Dad with his warm words of comfort me; When he humorous language make me laugh... At that time, I really realized the father loves the also gentle.

Dad is the pillar of the family, when his broad shoulders to assume the burden of the family; When I found a piece of white silk on his head; When I find the wrinkles on his face. My heart is with sour.

Generation of letters, mostly because their children mother selfless and moved, so for the selfless love left countless love. And for the whole family outside the hustle and bustle of the father? Nothing left.

Here, I want to sing loudly fathers love is great!

Hello,everyone!

I was fortunate to 200 * years in September admitted to the University of ad specialty XX. From 200 * to 200 *, from East Campus to Dushu Lake Campus. In the Soviet four years, brought me a lot of heritage and memory. Four years passed away, when they graduate, should be for the life of four years in the Ivory Tower to learn to do an interview self-introduction.

In four years, I quite seriously in learning, performance is also better, every year the school received a scholarship in the class have been able to maintain in the top five. Particularly in the specialized courses concerned, as far as possible to learn good use. Actively participate in various advertising competitions, and won the National College Advertising Art Competition Third Prize of Jiangsu Division. Both peacetime operations, or papers, or exams, can seriously hope the best. If you would like to say that four years in learning what the greatest regret is that English, formerly in high school Ive had a nice English, but into the university, I slack on the English language, and not spend too much time to learn , resulting in the test to graduate have not been 6.

In social practice, I think my experience was very abundant. 200 * in the second half, I have to do internship in an advertising agency planning work, although the beginning of what will not, very hard, very tired, but when I as a Fan Meeting planners and executors of the stage and flowers after child communication band, when I write advertising effectiveness measurement companies Ina ceramic gain customer acceptance of the report, when I see their planned ceremony, opening ceremony of the successful implementation of the time, when I designed the LOGO when used by businesses When I work independently in the scene when the road show, I was happy. With my own efforts to complete a task. Internship in advertising, I learned a lot of things can not go to school books, contact with clients across industries, while also working in the printing industry, media, service organizations and other rituals have a certain understanding for the future able to adapt quickly to lay the foundation for work.

Prior to this, McDonalds, I also worked part-time, bitter, tired, but that time has given me a lot of fun. Learn a lot. I begun to taste the hardships of life and make money easily. McDonalds as a world-class enterprises, it has a strict standard of staff training system and working mechanism. Work at McDonalds, on the one hand I learned such a big company product promotion, teamwork, customer service, quality assurance and so should learn the rules and regulations and successful experiences, on the other hand, deal with all kinds of customers, but also enhance the my ability to communicate with others, in addition, work has worked hard my hard-working spirit.

In addition, in terms of ideology, I also actively move closer to the party, on the one hand, to strengthen its own ideological and moral construction, to arm themselves ideologically; on the other hand, in the spirit of serving the people, adhere to help others, serve the community members of the strict demands on themselves. Finally the beginning of the glorious junior joined the Chinese Communist Party, and successfully turned positive after one year.

Four years in college, I know a lot of friends, they gave me a lot of help, let me learn a lot, this is college, in addition to expertise outside of an additional valuable asset.

In short, four years of school life, whether professional or social knowledge about, or people skills, have learned a lot I can say that four years of my life the most significant period of time, my ideal life and the pursuit of life during this period to determine their own career planning for a new life also have a new goal. I will continue to work closer to success!

Thank you!

The qingming (Pure Brightness) Festival is one of the 24 seasonal division points in China, falling on April 4-6 each year. After the festival, the temperature will rise up and rainfall increases. It is the high time for spring plowing and sowing. But the qingming Festival is not only a seasonal point to guide farm work, it is more a festival of commemoration.

The qingming Festival sees a combination of sadness and happiness.

This is the most important day of sacrifice. Both the Han and minority ethnic groups at this time offer sacrifices to their ancestors and sweep the tombs of the diseased. Also, they will not cook on this day and only cold food is served.

The Hanshi (Cold Food) Festival was usually one day before the qingming Festival. As our ancestors often extended the day to the qingming, they were later combined.

On each qingming Festival, all cemeteries are crowded with people who came to sweep tombs and offer sacrifices. Traffic on the way to the cemeteries becomes extremely jammed. The customs have been greatly simplified today. After slightly sweeping the tombs, people offer food, flowers and favorites of the dead, then burn incense and paper money and bow before the memorial tablet.

In contrast to the sadness of the tomb sweepers, people also enjoy hope of Spring on this day. The qingming Festival is a time when the sun shines brightly, the trees and grass become green and nature is again lively. Since ancient times, people have followed the custom of Spring outings. At this time tourists are everywhere.

People love to fly kites during the qingming Festival. Kite flying is actually not limited to the qingming Festival. Its uniqueness lies in that people fly kites not during the day, but also at night. A string of little lanterns tied onto the kite or the thread look like shining stars, and therefore, are called "gods lanterns."

The qingming Festival is also a time to plant trees, for the survival rate of saplings is high and trees grow fast later. In the past, the qingming Festival was called "Arbor Day". But since 1979, "Arbor Day" was settled as March 12 according to the Gregorian calendar.

I‘m twelve years old.I am a student of Class 1,Grade 7.I like playing

basketball and reading.My favourite fruit are banans and apples.Also,I like

eating hamburgers.I am a good student in my class.I like English and math

because they are interesting.Im friendly.I like sports.Do you want me to be your

friend?

I like this hotel management professional,because I like to live in a

strict order of the management environment.I have my professional

self-confidence and hope,as long as the efforts will be fruitful,this is my

motto.Since I chose this profession,I will follow this path,effort,perseverance

path.

Thank you teachers.I finished presentation.

这是今年十二岁的梅。我是1班的一名学生，7年级。我喜欢打篮球和读书。我最喜欢的水果是香蕉和苹果。另外，我喜欢吃汉堡。我在班里是一个好学生。我喜欢英语和数学，因为它们很有趣。我很友好。我喜欢运动。你想让我成为你的朋友吗?我喜欢酒店管理这个专业，是因为我喜欢生活在一个严格管理秩序的环境。我对我的专业充满自信和希望，只要努力，就会有收获，这是我的座右铭。既然我选择了这个专业，我会走这条路，努力的，坚持不懈的走下去。我的介绍完了。

Good morning，ladies and gentlemen. I am Leo from Guangzhou Zhengxin International School. I am a sunny boy. My family love me and I love them too. My mom works very hard every day. She comes home very late in the evening. Do you know how to help the parents at home? Let me tell you about that.

女士们先生们早上好，我来自广州正心国际学校，我是阳光男孩，我们全家都很爱我，我也很爱他们，每天爸爸妈妈工作都很努力，晚上都很晚下班，你知道如何在家中去帮助妈妈吗？让我告诉你

Usually my dad cooks for us. Sometimes I help my dad to wash the vegetables. Sometimes I set the table. I always wash the dishes when we finish eating. After I finish my homework I often water the flowers. I also look after my pet fish. I feed the fish before I go to bed.

有时我爸爸会给我们煮饭，那我也会，帮助我爸爸去洗菜，摆餐具，饭后我总是习惯去洗碗，写玩作业后我会主动去浇花，以及在睡觉之前我会去喂鱼。

I really enjoy helping my parents at home. Do you think I am a helpful boy? I think so! Thank you! 我很喜欢帮助爸爸妈妈去做事，你觉得我是一个好帮手吗？我想我是！谢谢！

Respected Professors，Good afternoon! Im great honored to meet you here.  Im ，26 years old ， born in city ， Province.In the year of ，I entered University， majoring in Machincal Designing and Producing. During those 4 yearsstudy，I worked hard and I was always active in various activities. I gained the first scholarship for four times and I joined the Communist Party at the college.

However，with time going on ，the more I experienced， the clearer I realized that Im really interested in the Enterprise Management .I find many enterprises have the problem of an unmatched management to its developing speed . Im eager to learn more about management and I hope I can study further in this University.

So I resigned in August ， 2008 and started the way to pursuing my studies. After about half years hard work， Im finally standing before your honorable professors now. Im really excited. Though Ive sacrificed much on my way to pusuing studies， I believe its worthwhile. I believe working hard will finally be prepared. Thank you !

Hello, my name is Leo.

Im from.

Zhengxin school. As you can see I have a round face and the big eyes. I like music very much. In my spare time, I like take some reading and go shopping. It can make me feel happy. I like chatting with others, because it can help me to know this world. I have lots of friends. All the things in the world are colorful. I love peace and I take proud of my motherland. Thank you!

您好，我的名字叫力欧，我来自正心学校，正如你看到的一样 ，我的脸很圆，眼睛也很大，我喜欢音乐，

空余时间我喜欢阅读和购物，这些都可以让很开心很愉快，我喜欢跟别人聊天，因为能帮助更了解这个世界，我有很多朋友，这个世界的东西都是多姿多彩的，我喜欢和平，我为我的祖国感到骄傲和自豪。

My name is Wang Xiaochuan. I’m eleven. I live in a small house in Taicang.

I study at Zhu Diwen Primary School. I have seven lessons every day. I study

Chinese, Maths, English, PE, Science, Art, Music, Social Science and Computer

Studies. I like Science, It’s interesting. I don′t like Art, I can’t draw very

well. I usually play games with my good friends, Sun Zhe and Gu Xu ,on Sundays.

I like swimming, playing badminton and playing table tennis.I like eating fruit,

just like strawberries, watermelons and peaches.

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