关于读书的英文演讲稿

　　The title of my speech today is "reading and playing the background color of life".

　　A boy was born on February 12, 1811, at the home of a poor farmer in a rural Kentucky village. He had no chance to go to school because he was poor. He has been in school for less than a year. His mother could read, but never learned to write, and his father could only write his own name.

　　However, he was strongly attracted by books. He started school at the age of seven and went to school only two or three days a week. From then on, he began his own initiation education. He used the burned wood as a "pencil" and practiced writing letters on rough boards. At night, he read aloud to his mother the bible and read Aesop's fables.

　　As a teenager, he looked for and borrowed a lot of books from all his neighbors over 50 miles, including the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, life in Washington, and pilgrim's progress. He seized every chance to read carefully. While other friends were playing hide-and-seek in the mountains, he was reading under a tree with a book in his hand. After dinner, he quickly picked up the book.

　　At the age of nine, his beloved mother died. He and his sister comforted their mother by reading her favorite bible verse.

　　When his father remarried, the stepmother brought a few furniture and three books to her new home: the merriam-webster dictionary, Robinson Crusoe and the night talk. He read the books over and over. He gradually became a proficient writer, so that his neighbors would pay him to write letters and simple wills.

　　When he was 21, he decided to go out. Finally settled in a small village on the western border with more than 100 new migrants. The village has six college-educated education people, including two knowledgeable physicians who allow him to borrow their books at any time.

　　For the next seven years, he did two jobs that allowed him to work long hours without interruption. The first job was the store clerk, and the second job was the postman. He has read books on philosophy, technology, religion, literature, law and politics. In fact, by reading, he gave himself an excellent college diploma.

　　In 1837, at the age of 28, he was a practicing lawyer in Illinois, even though he didn't graduate from grade one.

　　In 1861, he became the 16th President of the United States by running for office. He was one of the greatest presidents in American history, Abraham Lincoln

　　Listen to this story, and you will learn something from it.

　　In human history, both domestic and abroad, due to study diligently and change their own destiny, and even change the fate of national, ethnic, affecting the process of human civilization examples are like the stars in the sky, countless. Their stories influence and inspire generations of people, and the best way to learn from them is to read.

　　You can't get to know all the great men and masters of the world in real life, but by reading, it's possible. "To read a good book is to talk to many noble people," Goethe said. You can't go back to the past, nor can you get into the future in advance, but books can take you to the past and the future. It is said that those who do not read are living in the present, while those who read books live in three eras - past, present and future. You can't travel all over the world, but books can take you to every corner of the earth.

　　Words and books are the greatest inventions in the history of mankind, and if you can take advantage of it, you will not take advantage of the greatest invention.

　　Reading means education, even school. "The school first meant books," says former Soviet educator sukhomlinsky. Not for teachers and students, enrich the spiritual life between teachers and students need abundant books, or have a lot of books and the lack of teachers and students of the school love of books, is not a real school, can say is a "manufacturing, manufacturers of the labor force".

　　Do you like reading books? So start reading, harvest, taste, forge ahead! Let's bathe in the book and enjoy it. The book is gold and precious; Books are sunshine, unlimited energy. Pick up your books! You can go to bed and forget your food. In reading, I harvest; I grew up reading. I love reading, I love harvest.

　　Thank you.