2018.9.10，教师节。我在头马英语演讲的稿子。非常开心，又有一种特殊的方式几年了一个特别的日子。表白，无处不在，无时无刻哟！❤
A teacher's gift
The day I got my bachelor's degree, I gave a sigh of relief! "
Finally it is time to say goodbye to my school days. No more tests for me! I thought.
But a week later I was in school again, and I met exams again. Exams not for me, but for my students. I was their teacher, and exams were like my gift for them, a gift to help them learn and practice what they learn in class. The students had no choice but to take this "gift", whether they like it or not.
老师的礼物
获得学士学位的那天，我送了口气。终于要告别我的学生时代啦！再也没有考试啦。但是一周以后我再次进入了校园，我再次遇到了考试。不是给我的考试，而是给我学生的考试。我是他们的英语老师，测验就像实我给学生们的“礼物”，一份帮助他们巩固课堂知识的礼物。学生们别无选择， 不管他们喜欢与否，都只能接受这份来自老师的“礼物”。
Ladies and gentlemen, good evening. Have you received such a gift from your teacher before? In your precious school days, besides having classes and taking exams, what other gifts did you take from your teachers?
As for me, I can still recall some of the valuable lessons I learnt from my teachers. Not the kind of lessons that teach one ABC, but lessons that exert a life-long influence on my life. They are like gifts, cherished and carefully preserved by me until today.
女士们，先生们，晚上好。您是否也收到过这样一份来自老师的礼物？除了课堂和考试外，您还收到其他来自老师的礼物嘛？
对我来说，我仍然记得从老师身上学到的珍贵的课。这些并不是光教会你ABC的课，而是能对我一生产生影响的课程，让我至今珍藏。
I remember the day when I failed in an important maths test. I was horrified to let others know about my terrible score, because it would be so humiliating! Before the test papers were given out in class, I was called to Mr Chen’s office beforehand. "This is your test paper, Kathy. Take it. I guess this time you want to keep the score a secret right? Keep it well. And I'm sure you will try harder in maths next time!"
I was out of his office, with a roll of test paper in my hand, and with a thankful heart for Mr Chen, for his thoughtfulness in dealing with students’ scores, for his extra patience for those students with low marks, and thankful for his making student feel dignified and respected.
Now as a teacher myself, I often recall Mr Chen’s gift for me. That is: show respect to every student because each of them is unique and important. At the end of last semester, I suddenly had an idea that I would like to write a postcard to each one of them. I gave them my appreciation and wished them a happy summer vacation.
(Show the picture)
我记得那天我没有通过一场重要的数学考试。我感到非常恐惧，怕自己的成绩让别人知道，怕丢脸。在发试卷前我被叫到了数学老师陈老师的办公室。“Kathy, 这是你的试卷。拿着。我想你大概想把成绩作为一个小秘密吧！不过我确信，你下次考试会更认真更用心！”
我离开他的办公室，手里拿着试卷，也怀揣着一颗感激的心，感激陈老师能够周到处理孩子们的成绩，也感谢他努力让每个孩子感到被尊重，让每个人都有尊严感。
今天作为一个老师，我经常想到陈老师给我的这份礼物：尊重每个孩子，因为他们每一个都与众不同，都是重要的。上学期末，我给班上的每个孩子写了明信片。我向他们每一个人表达了我对他们的欣赏，并且祝他们暑假快乐。
Summer vacation is a time for travelling, and whenever I travel, wherever I travel, I will do something small and something big. On my journey I will find time to write a postcard to Mr Zheng, my high school English teacher. Small as the card is, it embodies big meaning for me. A postcard sends my best regards to my beloved teacher and serves as a way to say: I miss you.
(pic of postcard and Jason sending a postcard)
Mr Zheng loved and cared for his students when they were in school, and he loves and cares for his students more after they graduate from school. He shows to me that a teacher’s love for his students is endless, permanent and infinite; a love that is so deep and ever-lasting to go far beyond schooldays, a love that can beat time and space.
暑假是旅行的日子。无论何时，无论旅行至何地，我会做一件小事、同时又是一件大事。我会抽时间写一张明信片给我高中的英语老师郑老师。卡片虽小，心意却大。我借卡片对老师说：我想你了。
在求学期间，郑老师关心爱护我们每一个人。在我们毕业后，这份爱护变得更浓郁了。他向我展示了第二份礼物，那就是：一个老师对学生的爱是无尽的，无私而永恒的。这是一份深沉的爱，它远不至于校园时代，这份爱能跨越时间于空间。
(Show pic of Mr Zheng.)
This picture shows Mr Zheng showed up at our 30th birthday party. He brought us a big cake, and gave my son a red packet. He is just like a father to us, and a grandfather to our children.
"It's your 30 th birthday, my children. And it's a big day for you! How can I not be there to celebrate " His words moved everybody present.
As a teacher myself, I also care for those students who graduate, and listen to their love stories in college, their growing pains and happiness, and share my own stories with them. I bring them here to witness the speech contest, and bring them to the studio to paint oil-painting together, and it is fun!
郑老师参加了我们30岁的生日会。他带来给大家一个大大的蛋糕，又给我的孩子红包。他就像我的父亲、又像我孩子的祖父。
“今天是大家30岁的生日，我的孩子们。如此重大的日子，我怎么能不出席呢？”他的话让在场的每个当年的学生都很感动。
如今，作为老师的我，也时常关心着毕业的孩子，与他们保持练习。我倾听他们的情感故事，分享他们成长的烦恼和喜悦，也把我自己的故事告诉他们。我把他们带去演讲比赛现场，和他们一起去画室画画.尽情玩乐。
Then here is the question. Why do I join toastmaster, give speeches here and even participate in the speech contest? I am a busy teacher at school and a busy mom at home. What is the motive for me to do all this?
Because it is fun, and more importantly, it is a way to challenge myself, and a way to practise what I teach.
Two years ago I heard of a story told by my former student. My student is studying in Financial University (财大), and she joined the debate team there. The teacher in charge of debate team not only coaches the students in debating, but also participates in all kinds of national debate contests together with his students, not as a coach, but as a contestant. You hear it right. He actually competes against his students in the game!
下一个问题是，我为什么加入头马，在这里演讲，甚至参加演讲比赛？在学校我是一个忙碌的老师，在家我是一个繁忙的妈咪，为什么还要去演讲俱乐部呢？
因为演讲很有趣，更重要的是，这是一种挑战自己的方式，也是“学以致用”。
两年前，我从我的学生处听到了一个老师的故事。我学生在财大参加了辩论队，辩论队的老师，不仅指导孩子们辩论，还和孩子们一起参加全国辩论比赛。不是作为一个指导老师，而是作为一个比赛选手参赛！你完全没有听错！他有时候在比赛中会和学生们对垒！
Wouldn’t it be so embarrassing if he lost the game? I thought.
The students also felt awkward to compete against their teacher at first. But he said:
“If I beat my students in the debate contest, I am pleased. I am successful as a debater.
But if I am beaten by my students, I will feel much prouder. It shows I am successful as a teacher. ”
His words deeply impressed me. I learn from him that as a teacher, I should never lie on the bed of roses or be content with what I already learn. As a teacher, I need to push myself to the stage, I need to keep taking challenges, I need to keep learning and set an example for my students that there is no end to learning.
That’s the gift I learn from a teacher whose name I don’t know, but who I respect.
我想：万一老师输给了学生，岂不是颜面尽失？
老师的回答是：
“如果我在辩论赛中打败了学生，我很高兴。因为我是一名成功的辩论选手。”
“但如果我被学生打败了，我会感到更高兴和骄傲。因为我成为了一名成功的老师！”
他的话让我至今印象深刻。从他身上我学到了，永远不要满足于现有的知识。作为一名教师，我需要不时把自己推向舞台，我需要不断接受挑战，我需要不断学习，需要以身作则，让我的孩子们知道“学海无涯”的意义。
Ladies and gentlemen, tonight I share with you the three valuable gifts I get from my own teachers. These gifts from my teachers have greatly shaped me and made me who I am today. Above all, these gifts make me WEALTHY, even wealthier than those people with 20 million people in their bank account, and I hope to pass down these gifts to my students and make them as wealthy as I am.
Ladies and gentlemen, what is the special gift you get from your teachers? Keep that precious gift in your heart, follow your teachers’ steps, because “to be like your teacher” is the best gift for your teachers
on this special Teachers’ Day! Thank you!
女士们，先生们，今晚我与大家分享我从老师处获得的三份宝贵的礼物。老师带给我的礼物塑造了我。这些礼物让我变得非常富有,甚至比那些银行账户中存有两千万的人还要富有。我希望有一天，可以把这些礼物传递给我的学生们，让他们与我一样富有。
女士们，先生们，您从老师处有没有获得过特别的礼物？把这份礼物放在你的心里，跟随您老师的脚步，因为“像您的老师”是今天教师节给您老师
最好的礼物！
谢谢大家。
Notes作者谈创作：
1. 本文题目借鉴自欧亨利的小说：Magi’s Gift麦琪的礼物。A teacher’s gift有双关涵义，即代表老师给予的礼物，又表示我们在教师节给予老师的礼物。
2. 三个小故事，包含老师如何对待我，和我作为老师，如何对待学生。其实已经有把礼物pass down的意思啦！也契合最后的message: 成为和老师一样的人，是对老师最高的赞美，是给老师最好的礼物。
3. 在实际演讲时，即兴加入了一句：“我觉得比银行账户有2000万的人更富有”当时博得观众席一阵笑声。因为我借用了之前以为演讲者提到的一句话“如果你银行账户有2000万...”,在演讲中，把前一个人说过的某个点用到自己的演讲中，这种技巧叫call back。使用这种演讲技巧，会令演讲增色不少哦！
4. 最后，本文是英文演讲稿，中文翻译文字未经打磨。帮助大家理解英文原告吧！谢谢！
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