2011“FLRTP” Cup & Guangdong Collegiate English Speaking Contest was held in Guangdong University of Foreign Studies on November 20th, 2011. Yang Cen, a third-year English major from the School of Foreign Languages, represented our university to participate in this contest. After the fierce competition in the semi-final and final sections, she won the Second Prize Award in the Guangdong region out of 54 contestants with her excellent performance.

42 universities including Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, South China Normal University, Jinan University, South China University of Science and Technology, Shantou University, Shenzhen University and so on. After the Impromptu Speech in the semi-final section, which took place in the morning, 13 finalists entered the final section, which included the prepared speech, an impromptu speech and the Q&A section. Yang Cen ranked the 6th after the semi-final contest and successfully entered the final one.

In the prepared speech “A Word That Has Changed the World”, finalists expressed their wonderful ideas and made impressive delivery on the stage. In the following impromptu speech and the Q&A section, Yang Cen demonstrated calm stage manners, quick response, witty thought and excellent language proficiency, and finally won the Second Prize Award in the 2011“FLRTP” Cup & Guangdong Collegiate English Speaking Contest.

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Participating in this competition made me think a lot. First, I was really impressed by the excellent performance of other contestants. Some of them have a solid knowledge of English and can easily master the sophisticated grammar, such as parallelism; others are really clever, quick thinking and humorous. I think, the greatest benefit I gained by participating in this completion is that I find my own weakness, which is lacking the ability of fast decoding picture-related information. Given another chance, I can do it better. It’s never too old to learn.

- Yang Cen