Directions: The Students’ Union of your department is planning an English Speaking Contest. Write an announcement which covers the following information：
1) the purpose of the contest,
2) time and place of the contest,
3) what is required of the candidates,
4) details of the judges and awards.
You should write about 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use Department of English at the end of the announcement.
English-Speaking Contest
To improve students’ ability to speak English and enrich after-class activities, the Students’ Union of Department of English is organizing a school-wide English-speaking contest to be held on Tuesday next week (14 January) at the Students’ Recreational Center. Those who are interested in taking part in it may sign up with the monitor of their classes before Friday this week. Five overseas teachers will be invited to be judges. The first six winners will be given awards. Everybody is welcome to be present at the contest.
The Students’ Union
Department of English
1. To get acquainted with school surroundings
To learn the history and traditions of the campus
To benefit future academic study
To make noises
To intrude the normal campus order
To impair campus environment
To make it difficult for students to concentrate on study
To expose students to various risks
2. To be fair and upright
To enable honest person to succeed in work and life
To work honestly to attain one’s life goal
To enhance reputation of a nation or country
To bring nothing but trouble or failure
To lose people’s heart
To disappoint and let down friends and family members
3. To find (search / hunt) the right career
To display talent and capability
To provide one with opportunities and challenges
To cater to the competitive environment
To apply theoretical knowledge to practice
To be of real service to fellowmen and the country
To confront unprecedented competition
To be frustrated with a sense of uselessness
To feel guilty in front of parents and family supporters
To encounter discrimination on the basis of sex or height or even birthplace
To despise jobs of lower social status and less income
To avoid the possibility of working in the rural areas
4. To develop good health
To grow stronger than usual
To keep regular exercise
To make more contributions to the society
To be optimistic in life
To experience living pressure
To make do with bad diet
To neglect sports and exercise
To be indulged in work or recreation
To be ignorant of the social progress
5. To help overcome difficulties and sadness
To provide light and warmth
Never accept any gift from a stranger, as preached by sages
To be likely to be hurt, or hurt
To seek self protection and fence off possible damage
6 To keep domestic animals
To seek companion from pet
To make family life more colorful and rich
To develop sense of responsibility and caring
To make people feel closer to the natural world
To spread disease and pollute living environment
To waste time and money
To scare and hurt people, kid and the aged alike
7 To lead an economical and simple life
To learn to be frugal
To practice the quality of thrift
To save money, private and public
To spend more wisely
To limit one’s desire
To safeguard from extravagance and waste
To have less natural resources than before
Extravagance may lead to disgrace or corruption
To show generosity or hospitality
To run short of energy sources
8 To suffer from a strong sense of being outdated and abandoned
To create the most pressing problem
Shortage of food and other resources
To decrease social productivity
To improve the living condition of the aging population
To respect and appreciate the aged
To provide safety and happiness
9 To improve and beautify the environment
To plant more trees and extend grassland
To purify the air and water for the better health
To make city and countryside a better place to live in, and a more beautiful place to look at
To exhibit the progress of our country in the field of environmental protection
To discharge waste into water and air
To destroy the ecological balance
To dump pollutants into the living environment
To endanger some rare species
10 Enable students to possess better job skills
Prepare students for future employment
To better meet the demand of an industrial society
To enhance the quality of population
To promote scientific and technological level
To help the scientific revival of a nation
To prepare one for a better and more meaningful life rather than a job
To concentrate limited resources on creative talents, or elite
Technical education is part of prejudice against the poor and disadvantaged
To turn into a vicious cycle where the rich are more privileged
To cut off the social ladder and prevent people from moving upward
11 Share individual viewpoints and insights
Enable better and more efficient interpersonal communication
Enjoy equal right to personal opinion
Reveal and spread rumors
Occupy and waste net space
Follow trend and fashion
12 Get rich by legal means
Be entitled to wealth and prosperity
Stimulate people into hard working
Reduce the gap
Help the poor with better opportunities
Make big money illegally
Make this society insecure
13 Pass down cultural habit and treasure
Absorb and assimilate traditional culture
Reserve and spread brilliant diverse culture
Be under the threat of extinction
Be in great danger
14 Help distinguish between right and wrong
Offer proper guidance
Check and restrict unhealthy content
Create a clean and safe environment
Mislead children by indecent content
Indulge in violent act and aggressive behavior
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