IVY English Speech Contest Champion comes out! The game was extremely exciting!

English is a bridge to the world. Speech is an art of language. As an international school, IVY has always attached great importance to the cultivation of students' English ability, the expansion of international vision and self-confident expression, and enhanced students' comprehensive quality by organizing English speech activities.

Last Saturday morning, a highly-watched English speech contest was successfully concluded in IVY. Twelve speakers from our school gathered on the stage and set off a wave of exciting speeches at the contest site. The theme of this speech is "Cultural Conflict". The contestants elaborated the cultural conflict from different angles and levels. Through this competition, the students have exercised their English speaking ability, improved their self-confidence and deepened their understanding of the conflicts between different cultures.

IVY English Speech Competition is a school-wide competition, which integrates profession, talent, innovation, diligence and wisdom. IVY’s small partners have always loved it, so everyone has signed up to participate. After the tense preliminaries, the top 12 glories were born, Tim, Cherry, George, Jack, Eric, Xuan, Mike, Jackson, Roy, Amy, Jade and Jini.

On the day of the competition, many parents came to watch it. Following the opening music, 12 competitors appeared collectively. From their self-confident eyes, we can see that they are all ready to come. The competition proceeds in an orderly manner according to the appearing order of 12 players, 12 players with different styles. Some of them belong to the "graceful school" with graceful words and elaborate argumentation. Some belong to the "bold school" with simple and direct explanations and self-confident body movements. Some belong to the "funny school" with funny language and ingenious perspectives. People can't help laughing.

Different styles of deduction, different creative richness, make IVY stage more lively, the competition scene laughter and applause constantly. IVY respects each student's individual expression, encourages them to express their views confidently, cultivates their innovative thinking and expands their international horizons. This is not only a speech stage, but also a collision of thinking.

Culture has always blossomed with flowers, each with its own merits. The theme of this speech is "Cultural Conflict". With this as the center, the small partners can freely exert themselves from different angles, including aesthetic, marriage, thinking, diet and living habits of different cultures. Through this theme, students explore the connotation of different cultures, understand the differences of cultures in comparison, feel the different charms of cultures, respect the differences and diversity of cultures, thus enriching our multi-ethnic cultural vision.

For example, the content of Tim's lecture is "misunderstandings and opinions between China and the United States", listing and introducing stereotypical impressions and opinions between China and the United States, the causes and effects of such misunderstandings; for example, Amy's data show that the Nobel Prize for the birth of the Jewish nation is higher, compared with Chinese education, Jewish education is easier to inspire students; for example, Mike's students are closer to students. Speaking vividly about the cultural differences between China and the West in every aspect of daily life, such as queuing, photographing, driving, payment methods, and their impact on our lives; for example, Jackson, Jini and Roy from South Korea shared the cultural differences between China and South Korea, such as family education, diet and the acceptance of homosexuality, etc., from different perspectives. Launch speeches, different ideas collide with each other to create a wonderful spark.

In the course of the excellent and fierce speech contest of the top 12 contestants, voting is also going on nervously. Off-stage judges recorded earnestly, asked questions immediately and selected strictly. The top five speakers were Tim, Mike, Roy, Jini and Amy at the end of the 12-strong competition. Their excellent speeches, which are better than others, are favored by the judges.

The last five champions compete for the second place of the championship, and the competition system is upgraded. The contestants watch the topic on the spot and make impromptu speeches. This requires the responsiveness and English expression of the contestants. IVY's classmates and teachers specially recorded videos for the second-place Championship contest. The students in the videos played different roles. The theme was illustrated by a small story of cultural conflict. Their acting skills aroused laughter. Five students improvised speeches also received applause from the audience.

After the final fierce competition, this year's IVY Speech Contest's second runner-up was born. They are champion Amy, runner-up Mike and runner-up Jini. These three contestants are better than others in terms of novelty, skill and fluency of topic selection, on-the-spot response and on-the-spot performance, especially champion Amy. They give speeches from the perspective of Jewish culture and make different choices on topics. In the early stage of preparation, the speech was well organized, and eventually won the unanimous recognition of everyone, and the highest number of votes was obtained, becoming the champion of the 2018 IVY English Speech Contest.

IVY's teachers give awards, certificates and gifts to the award-winning students to encourage their outstanding performance. Our academic headmaster, John, made a concluding speech, congratulated the students on winning the prize in the speech contest, affirmed the excellent performance of the players on the stage, hoped that they would continue to work hard to learn English and improve their expressive ability, and encouraged all the students to participate actively in various activities and competitions, to exercise their comprehensive ability and enhance their self-confidence.

IVY English Speech Contest ended with laughter and joy. In this contest, the students actively participated, prepared carefully and performed well. They were not only recognized by the students, but also praised by the parents. Many parents saw their children's performance on the stage and felt that their children had grown up a lot in IVY. IVY will continue to build various platforms for students'progress, so that students' comprehensive ability can be developed and become more confident and excellent.