Have you eaten?

You must be curious about what I’m talking about. I should normally say “Hello, Hi” or something else to greet you. And “Have you eaten” is a very traditional way to greet used by Chinese. Okay, this is the topic I’m going to talk about—The Greeting Ways Between China and Western Countries. I’m Liu XiaoJie. I come from ICS.

There are so many differences among countries. Of course, ways of greeting between China and western countries are totally different.

As I said, in China, if we meet a friend in the street, we are used to say: “Hi, have you eaten?”, or something like “Where have you been?”, “What are you going to do?” to show our consideration.

Let’s watch a video.

I think Chinese people say “have you eaten” is because that in the past, Chinese are really poor, people are always hungry, so the most important thing when people meet is asking whether he or she is full or not.

However, in the western countries, the questions above are just questions, not greeting at all. They may think you’re inviting them to dinner if you ask about their meals. Usually, they’ll just give each other a smile or greet with a “hi/hello”﹑”Good morning/afternoon/evening”, “what a fine day today” ,”how is everything going” to show their considerations. In most occasion, American nod head or wave hands to greet.

In social situations, the Western people have a few different ways to greet.

The most common is shaking hands. This is the most mainstream way. In

England and American, people usually shake hands for ceremony when they first meet. Not like the English people, Eastern Europeans always give a hug to each other when they first meet.

If met a woman, a man would kiss the back of the woman’s hand. This is a ceremonious greeting.

Most western people would give each other a big hug if he meets with a close friend

There are some tips you should know.

First, when you are shaking hands, hold your hands softly and don't take the invitation to the one who had high social status.

It’s very rude to hit somebody’s shoulders. Don't do this unless he is your close friend.

And the following tips may be very important for the gentlemen. If you want to kiss a girl’s hand you must know.

Your mouth can’t touch her hand. Don't kiss the hands which are in gloves. Don't kiss a girl’s hand in public.

Chinese usually scrape a bow to greet people in the old time. People should stand firmly first. Then encircle the hands in the front and shake the hands upper and lower.

There are much more interesting things about greeting, if you want to know more about greeting, you can come to me.

So, it’s the end of my speech. Thank you.

 

第二篇：英文presentation的演讲稿(配套ppt为 江湖style)

关于稿子。。。

Good morning,everyone,my name is XXX,I am glad to share my interest with you.

Today the topic of my presentation is Jiang Hu style,maybe it sounds like the popular JiangNan style,but I think JiangNan Style is just a fad ,JiangHu is a dream of every movie director such as XuKe徐克 and Li’An李安,and a dream of every writer and every reader just like me.

The presentation has three part. The first part is about classical martial arts ,I will mainly introduce Jin Yong and his works .... When talking about classical martial arts fictions ,these writers are always mentioned.They are Jin Yong,Gu,Liang,Wen ,Huang. And Wang Dulu,maybe you don’t him,but you must know “WoHuCangLong卧虎藏龙”,yes,it is his master work.

And among these writer the most famous is Jin Yong.He has published 15 novels,he has made the first word of his 14 novels into a couplet “飞雪连天射白鹿，笑书神侠倚碧鸳...”,and another is “Yue Nv Jian越女剑” ,a short story,Jin Yong is not satisfied with it so he does not put it into the couplet.

Jin is one of the best selling Chinese authors.His fictions have been translated into many languages, his fictions have a wide spreading following in Chinese speaking areas,including

mainland China, HK, Tai Wan, Southeast Asia,and United States.What’s more ,Deng Xiaoping had read his books and spoken highly of them,and he also interviewed Jin. In a word ,we can say “Where there are Chinese ,there are Jin Yong’s fictions.”!!

Jin Yong’s fictions have been adapted for films and TV series.comic and video games.I believe we are all very familiar with them .

If you let me choose one person I admire in Jin’s fictions ,I will choose Xiao Feng萧峰.He is a tragic hero in “TianLongBaBu天龙八部”,and a true hero.He is brave and wise,he became the leader of the org of beggars all by his own efforts , not only lucky like Zhang Wuji张无忌, He can beat a bear and kill the enemy leader among millions of soldiers.He is wise,In the beginning of the book,he solved the insurgency(反叛) of his belongs easily.He is affectionate ,he loved A Zhu 阿朱so much and keep her in mind forever even she has died .He is righteous,he admits what he has done and takes care of his brothers and A Zhu’s sister. He is sympathy and tolerant .And at last his death had made the King of Liao Dynasty to promise that he will never attack the Song Dynasty.His death is full of meaning,and shows “Great knight ,for the country and for the

people ”.The most impotent is he is not perfect.He has killed many innocent people in JuXianZhuang聚贤庄,and when he was a child ,he had killed the indifferent doctor.Just because of his imperfection,he is just a true man not a hero like the God. When talking about new martial arts, these writers are always mentioned .Among these writers ,there are some authoress,this is different from the period of the classical fiction.

Now I want to talk about Cang Yue沧月 .She used to be one of my favorite writers.Cang Yue is her penname ,her true name is Wang Yang.She has studied architecture in Zhejiang University and now she is a professional architect and a part-time novelist.But she is better known as a martial arts writer.She has written many martial arts fantasy fiction ,not only pure martial arts.

These are her books!!!

I have read her books for about 8 years,I think her writing style is gorgeous.We can find her rich imagination here and there in her books.In her unique female perspective ,the martial arts fictions become not only about male ,but also more about female ,friendship,love and so on .She has pay more attention to the create the female imagination .And there are many ancient legends and poems in her books. As a science student,her books

have given me lots of beautiful memory and let me know more about the ancient Chinese literature.

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