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　　Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to givemy topic with you.Eh, I am just a little nervous right now. And I usually singa song when I feel nervous. So would you mind me singing a song? Of coursenot!（sing the song…） Did I sing well?Okay, thank you. Do you like this piece of music? Yes or no? By the way, do youknow the name of the song? Who can tell me? —Yep! You are right! The name ofthe song is Imagine me without you. As for me, I can’t imagine mewithout English in my life. Why? Please wait a moment. You will get the answerfrom the following content. Let’s back to our topic.

　　As we all know, English is an international language. I am 14years old now and I’ve learnt English for 9 years. It has become a part of mylife. I think English is not only important but also very useful to me.

　　I have never thought that, I would pay such more attention tolearning English because when I was six, I always got bad marks at school and Icould not figure out the letters “ R” and “K”。 Yeah, that is impossible.

　　One day, my mom came to school and took me home and she saw theletters on the blackboard. She pointed to “R” and asked me “What is this?”—“R”。 “And what about this one”？ Shepointed to “K”。—“R”！ I answered. “Are you sure?”—“Yep, mummy, They are thesame!” I said confidently! My mom shook her head with an upset face. She was sodisappointed with me. From then on, she tried to use many different ways inorder to improve myEnglish, such as inviting the private teachers with high salary; findingforeign teachers online; buying lots of English books or encouraging me toenter different English competitions and so on. And I also worked very hard. Igot up early every morning to read English books aloud and had English classesfor hours. Sometimes I felt really tiredand I had no progress. I felt frustrated! Luckily, my mum is always with me! She wanted me tolearn everything happily but not with lots of pressure. She tried to make me relax. It was a kindof logical game. Would you like to have a try? Follow me, please! Raise yourhands up. This is a gun in my left hand and there are four birds in my righthand. Now I need to exchange them like this. Try to do it as fast as you can! Canyou do it? Well, maybe it is a little difficult at first. So did I. So I triedit patiently and carefully again and again. You see, I can do it as fast as Ican now. I think the way to learn English is still the same. After adifficult training time, I found that: the more English I’ve learnt patiently,the more confidence I’ve got and the more interested I was in learning English.

　　I am an outgoing girl. I love to explore and know more about theworld. I have some friends from different countries. At first, I could not followthem clearly. But they were friendly. They treated me as a member of theirfamily. We could play jokes to each other or share something interestingtogether. I remembered one day I had mentioned to my American teacher that Ihad a fight with my friend and I felt left behind. She stopped for a moment andsaid: “It doesn’t matter. I am always with you.” At that time I felt reallywarm. Sometimes I talk with my friends on Skype and some of them on QQ. And oneof my friend came from Philippines had asked me to give him the QQ red bag.Very interesting, right?

　　During the time when I learn English, I understand a point clearlythat is “Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. Therewill always come a time you will be grateful you did.” We should always insiston what we are seeking. I wouldn’t give up learning English. Thanks for your listening.