英语应用文写作Unit10_Speeches教材教学课件.pptVIP

Unit 10 Speeches; Outline Speeches are often used in modern social activities. Generally, in different occasions, it can be divided into formal and informal. Formal speeches are often used in official conference or ceremony. While in some informal ceremony happened in folk or personally, informal speeches are often used. The commonly used speeches are Welcoming Speeches ,Seeing-off Speeches, Opening Address and Closing Address. ;Common used vocabulary;Common used sentence patterns: It is my special/great pleasure/honor to welcome… On behalf of…, I extend my warm welcome to… We would like to thank you for coming to visit our company. I would like to extend a warm welcome to you all. It is very unfortunate that Mr. Smith will be leaving us. We were fortunate to have worked with him for so many years.;We are gathered here today to send off one of our managers, Mr. Baker, who has been appointed to his new post in New York. I now declare the … conference open. I have the honor of declaring open this international conference on… It is a great pleasure for me to declare the opening of the … conference. I now formally declare the … conference open. ;I hereby declare open the … conference with great pleasure. I am proud (delighted, pleased, privileged, honored) to declare the meeting open. Now I want to make just a few remarks in closing the debating contest. I now formally declared this … closed. I now have the duty and honor to declare the … officially closed. Now, I declare the conference closed. All of today’s proposals have thus been adopted, and today’s session is hereby adjourned. ;Sample 1 Welcoming Speech Ladies and gentlemen, Dear Professor White: Following the increasingly rapidity of our communications with countries abroad, China is having a great number of visitors from different countries. Today, we feel very much honored to have Professor Henry White with us. Professor White is well known to the world for his achievemen