初三英语演讲稿3分钟

初三英语演讲稿3分钟 篇一:初中英语演讲稿3 分钟 初中英语演讲稿3分钟(一)you will no longer fear making new sounds, showing new facial expressions, using your body in new ways,approaching new people, and asking new questions. you will live every single day of your life with absolute passion, and you will show your passion through the words you speak and the actions you take. you will focus all your time and effort on the most important goals of your life. you will never succumb to challenges of hardships. you will never waver in your pursuit of excellence. after all,you are the best, and you deserve the best!as your coach and friend, i can assure you the door to all the best things in the world will open to you, but the key to that door is in your hand. you must do your part, you must faithfully follow the plans you make and take the actions you plan, you must never quit, you must never fear. i know you must do it, you can do it, you will do it, and you will succeed!now stand firm and tall, make a fist, get excited, and yell it out: i must do it! i can do it! i will do it! i will succeed! i must do it! i can do it! i will do it! i will succeed! i must do it! i can do it! i will do it! i will succeed! 初中英语 演讲稿3分钟(二) it’s a very intresting topic today. i think my dad was a hero for me when i was a young child. wed go fishing, walks, and other fun things for a kid. every child has a good and great father, and so do i. my dad played a very important role in my daily life——exactly speaking, in my past 16 years. my father always stands in the center of my life， from past till now and possibly in the future. my family was rather poor when i was in my childhood. we didnt have our own house and had to live in a shabby， small room rented from my fathers factory. the room was so small that there was little space for people to walk. i didnt have my own bed and had to sleep with my parents. this is terrible both for my parents and me. but father made this all different～ he works very hard on his own business, now we have our own 2 housese,surly,i have my own room.and he take our family so much happiness, richer and richer.when i was little, i did everything with my dad. you could always find me sitting on his knee or walking and doing everything with him. every night he would read me a bed time story and make the voices of each character. i learnt a lot from my daddy. i learnt to never take things to seriously and to always smile. years pasted, my father is over 45 now. it is time for me to look after him and i am sure i will do and we will live an even better life. and i will say,i really love you dad,cause you are the hero in my mind.thank you so much! 初中英 语演讲稿3分钟(三) dear everyone. good evening, everyone! throughout my years of being a student, i’ve had many teachers. none of them are the same, but the one that i’ll never forget and will always miss is my chinese bilingual teacher in the middle school i attended in seattle, ms. ho. she was a skinny, but stylish lady in her 50s. she was different from all the other teachers because she gave me something unforgettable. today, i still keep in touch with her, and she still tells me how she believes in me. sometimes, i’d think back, and wonder how i could handle all those things if it wasn’t for her encouragement and trust. could i be the person i am today? then, it struck me: what we need has always been trust and love of others; because these things inspire us to do our best, and to live our life to its fullest. to sum up, i’d like to say to all of you: let us all appreciate trust and love of others and achieve our full potential in our life!篇二:中学生三分钟 英语演讲稿中学生三分钟英语演讲稿 good morning,dear teacher and my friends. it’s a very intresting topic today. i think my dad was a hero for me when i was a young child. wed go fishing, walks, and other fun things for a kid. every child has a good and great father, and so do i. my dad played a very important role in my daily life`````exactly speaking, in my past 16 years. my father always stands in the center of my life， from past till now and possibly in the future.my family was rather poor when i was in my childhood. we didnt have our own house and had to live in a shabby， small room rented from my fathers factory. the room was so small that there was little space for people to walk. i didnt have my own bed and had to sleep with my parents. this is terrible both for my parents and me. but father made this all different～ he works very hard on his own business, now we have our own 2 housese,surly,i have my own room.and he take our family so much happiness, richer and richer.when i was little, i did everything with my dad. you could always find me sitting on his knee or walking and doing everything with him. every night he would read me a bed time story and make the voices of each character. i learnt a lot from my daddy. i learnt to never take things to seriously and to always smile. years pasted, my father is over 45 now. it is time for me to look after him and i am sure i will do and we will live an even better life. and i will say,i really love you dad,cause you are the hero in my mind.thank you so much!篇三:初 中3分钟励志英语演讲稿 初中3分钟励 志英语演讲稿you will no longer fear making new sounds, showing new facial expressions, using your body in new ways,approaching new people, and asking new questions. you will live every single day of your life with absolute passion, and you will show your passion through the words you speak and the actions you take. you will focus all your time and effort on the most important goals of your life. you will never succumb to challenges of hardships. you will never waver in your pursuit of excellence. after all,you are the best, and you deserve the best! as your coach and friend, i can assure you the door to all the best things in the world will open to you, but the key to that door is in your hand. you must do your part, you must faithfully follow the plans you make and take the actions you plan, you must never quit, you must never fear. i know you must do it, you can do it, you will do it, and you will succeed!now stand firm and tall, make a fist, get excited, and yell it out: i must do it! i can do it! i will do it! i will succeed! i must do it! i can do it! i will do it! i will succeed! i must do it! i can do it! i will do it! i will succeed!篇四: 3分钟英语演讲稿带翻译3篇 my chinese dream 我的中国梦 i am very glad to stand here to give thier a short speech.today my topic is that the youth are the future of motherland很高兴站在这里做这篇短小 的演讲，我演讲的主题是青年是祖国的 未来。在准备英语演讲比赛的时候，我 本想简单地从网上搜索一些文章作为我 演讲的。我 看过很多文章，有著名主持人的、 北大教授的、大学生的，也有初中生的。 但是看完之后， 我放弃了当初的想法，我甚至为当 初的想法感到有一些羞愧。因为今天我 站在这里向大家演 讲的主题，是一个庄重而严肃的主 题;是一个充满荣耀与自豪的主题;是 每一个中华儿女共 同期盼的主题。每个人都有属于他 们自己的中国梦，而我，当然也有一直 萦绕在心怀只属于 我的中国梦。 so what?s my chinese dream ? finally i will announce. we had learned a lot of knowledge and understood a lot of truth in the book. we had a basic concept to our country at that time. we know that our country is full of sunshine , and we are the future of our country, and our dreams are to be the hope of our motherland. 我的中国梦是 什么样的,先卖个关子。记得刚刚上学 那会儿，我们天真无邪。在课本里，我 们学到了很多很多知识，也明白了 很多很多道理，我们对祖国也有了 一个最基本的概念。我们知道我们的祖 国到处充满阳光， 正在慢慢发展，而我们，就是祖国 未来的花朵，未来的希望。我们梦想将 来能够成为祖国的 希望。 这，是我们最初的中国梦。最真诚的我们，最真诚的梦。 但是，不知道什么时候开始，我们长大了，生活似乎一下子变得和以前不太一样了，与 此同时，虽然我们很不想承认但是却又不得不承认的是，我们的思想，我们的为人处世观， 我们对我们祖国的看法，也潜移默化中慢慢开始了转变。我们的社会变得到处充满欺骗、冷 漠、勾心斗角、压力、腐败、险恶，我们变得暴躁，不冷静，愤世嫉俗。我们的国家，似乎 也开始变得千疮百孔。而好多我们亲爱的祖国委以重任培养的青年学生们变得轻浮、急躁， 更别提什么梦想，什么中国梦了,are we sick, or is our dear motherland sick? 我很惊讶，当大街上有老人摔倒，我们不敢再去扶起;我很难过，当有人做了好事被报 道，更多的人说他做作;我很伤心，当我看到我们众多的青年人变得冷漠、市侩、欺诈以及 缺乏理想。 到底是我们病了，还是我们亲爱的 祖国病了,i dont want to talk about the construction of our country politics, and also speak impassioned speech on the diaoyu island event .i just want to appeal young people,showing the side of youth,good and confidence.we must learn to organize our own thoughts, correct our own concept, and change our direction to the right side in future life. china dream actually lies in our young generation, especially of the intellectuals. 我的中国梦，不想大谈政治，也不 想对钓鱼岛事件发慷慨激昂的演讲。 我只想呼吁， 呼吁我们年轻人，呼吁我们祖国的 希望能够将我们的青春一面，将我们的 善良一面，将我们 的自信一面好好展现出来。我们要 学会整理自己的思想，端正自己看问题 的观念，摆正自己 的人生方向。我们的中国梦实际上 正掌握在我们自己手上，掌握在我们年 青一代，尤其是知 识分子手上。 也许，一个人，是渺小的;但是当 他和祖国联系起来时，就是伟大的。也 许，一个梦想， 是渺小的，但是当它成为祖国的梦 想时，就是不可估量的。也许，我无法 用自己一个人的力 量撬起整个中国，但是我们千千万 万年轻人一起为祖国的梦想去奋斗时， 我们的祖国就足以 令世界颤抖、动容。 i dream to construct our beauty china with millions of young people who have the same dream. we do it without exaggeration but only with persistence.我 梦想和万千具有相同梦想的年轻人去建 设我们的美丽中国，没有虚浮，只有执 着，只 有奋斗，只有勇于担当。这就是我 的中国梦～ that is my speech,thanks everyone.我的演讲就到这里，谢谢大家。 we are the world ,we are the future 世 界是我们的，未来是我们的someone said “we are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book, whose pages are infinite”. i don?t know who wrote these words, but i?ve always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want it to be. we are all in the position of the farmers. if we plant a good seed ,we reap a good harvest. if we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all. 一些人说?我们正在读一 本无穷的书中的第一章的第一节。?我不 知道谁写了这些话，但 是我一直很喜欢它，因为它提醒了 我，我们能够创造我们想要的未来。we are young. “how to spend the youth?” it is a meaningful question. to answer it, first i have to ask “what do you understand by the word youth?” youth is not a time of life, it?s a state of mind. it?s not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips or supple knees. it?s the matter of the will. it?s the freshness of the deep spring of life.我们都是 农夫。如果我们播下好的种子，我们将 会丰收。如果我们的种子很差，有很多 草籽，收割的将是无用的庄稼。如 果我们什么也不播种，什么收获也没有。 youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite , for adventure over the love of ease. this often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20 . nobody grows old merely by a number of years . we grow old by deserting our ideals. years wrinkle the skin , but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul . worry , fear , self –distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust .我们是年轻的。?怎样 度过青春??这是个有意义的问题。为了 去回答它，我首先要问?从 ‘青春’这个词中你能理解到什么?? 青春不是人生的一个时期，而是精神的 一种状态。青春 不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉 的意志，。青春是生命的深泉在涌流. whether 60 of 16 , there is in every human being ?s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what?s next and the joy of the game of living . in the center of your heart and my heart there?s a wireless station : so long as it receives messages of beauty , hope ,cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long as you are young . a poet said “to see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour. several days ago, i had a chance to listen to a lecture. i learnt a lot there. i?d like to share it with all of you. let?s show our right palms. we can see three lines that show how our love.career and life is. i have a short line of life. what about yours? i wondered whether we could see our future in this way. well, let?s make a fist. where is our future? where is our love, career, and life? tell me.yeah, it is in our hands. it is held in ourselves.一位诗人说?从一粒沙看世界， 从一朵花看天堂，把无限放在你的手掌， 永恒在一刹那里 收藏?。几天前，我有了一个听讲座 的机会，从中我学到了很多东西。现在， 我想把这些与大 家共享。让我们伸出右手，我们可 以看到手掌中的展示我们的爱，事业和 生活的三条线。我 在生活方面这条线很短，那你们的 呢?我想知道我们是否可以用这种办法 去看我们的未来。好 的，让我们一起握拳。我们的未来 在哪儿?我们的爱、事业和生活在哪儿? 告诉我!是的，它们 就在我们的手中。它们被我们自己 掌握着。 篇二:初中英语演讲稿3分钟 初中英语演讲稿3分钟(一) As you slowly open your eyes, look around , notice where the light comes into your room; listen carefully, see if there are new sounds you can recognize; feel with your body and spirit, and see if you can sense the freshness in the air. Yes, yes, yes, it’s a new day, it’s a different day, and it’s a bright day! And most importantly, it is a new beginning for your life, a beginning where you are going to make new desicisions, take new actions, make new friends, and take your life to a totally unprecedented level! You know all this is real as long as you are confident,passionate and committed! And you are confident, you are passionate, you are committed! You will no longer fear making new sounds, showing new facial expressions, using your body in new ways,approaching new people, and asking new questions. You will live every single day of your life with absolute passion, and you will show your passion through the words you speak and the actions you take. You will focus all your time and effort on the most important goals of your life. You will never succumb to challenges of hardships. You will never waver in your pursuit of excellence. After all,you are the best, and you deserve the best! As your coach and friend, I can assure you the door to all the best things in the world will open to you, but the key to that door is in your hand. You must do your part, you must faithfully follow the plans you make and take the actions you plan, you must never quit, you must never fear. I know you must do it, you can do it, you will do it, and you will succeed! Now stand firm and tall, make a fist, get excited, and yell it out: I must do it! I can do it! I will do it! I will succeed! I must do it! I can do it! I will do it! I will succeed! I must do it! I can do it! I will do it! I will succeed! 初中英语演讲稿3分钟(二) It’s a very intresting topic today. I think my dad was a hero for me when i was a young child. we'd go fishing, walks, and other fun things for a kid. Every child has a good and great father, and so do i. my dad played a very important role in my daily life——exactly speaking, in my past 16 years. My father always stands in the center of my life， from past till now and possibly in the future. My family was rather poor when i was in my childhood. we didn't have our own house and had to live in a shabby， small room rented from my father's factory. the room was so small that there was little space for people to walk. i didn't have my own bed and had to sleep with my parents. this is terrible both for my parents and me. But father made this all different～he works very hard on his own business, now we have our own 2 housese,surly,i have my own room.and he take our family so much happiness, richer and richer. When i was little, i did everything with my dad. you could always find me sitting on his knee or walking and doing everything with him. every night he would read me a bed time story and make the voices of each character. I learnt a lot from my daddy. i learnt to never take things to seriously and to always smile. Like many other fathers, my dad and i also has generation gap. he is not good at or even can’t work the computer. (Motivational model yuedu.mipang.com)so when i sitting at the computer desk,he will say something like ‘you should pay more attention to your study’， ‘don’t waste time on the computer games, ‘it will be bad for your eyes’ and so on. how can i- a computer fan ? reduce time on computer? so i continue studying and playing on it Years pasted, my father is over 45 now. it is time for me to look after him and i am sure i will do and we will live an even better life. and i will say,i really love you dad,cause you are the hero in my mind. Thank you so much! 初中英语演讲稿3分钟(三) Dear everyone. Good evening, everyone! Throughout my years of being a student, I’ve had many teachers. none of them are the same, but the one that i’ll never forget and will always miss is my chinese bilingual teacher in the middle school i attended in seattle, ms. ho. she was a skinny, but stylish lady in her 50s. she was different from all the other teachers because she gave me something unforgettable. Ms. ho and i became friends right in the first semester i was in that middle school. at the same time, i was having a really hard time with my subjects. since i had just transferred from a bilingual school, where i had stayed for two months after arriving in the us, my english was horrible; my average grade was below c. i almost thought it impossible to learn english. then, one day she told me she strongly believed that i was capable of controlling my life, and i would be just fine. she said that she found we were much alike: both were stubborn, kind-hearted and a little bit simple-minded. she believed that i had the quality of becoming wise. she even said that she didn’t have any worries about me, about my not learning english. with her encouragement, i found the strength within myself and began to desire to work even harder. as a result, i soon proved her right, and at the end of the semester,() i got a 3.8 average grade. Today, I still keep in touch with her, and she still tells me how she believes in me. sometimes, i’d think back, and wonder how I could handle all those things if it wasn’t for her encouragement and trust. could i be the person i am today? then, it struck me: what we need has always been trust and love of others; because these things inspire us to do our best, and to live our life to its fullest. To sum up, i’d like to say to all of you: let us all appreciate trust and love of others and achieve our full potential in our life! 篇三:3分钟英语演讲稿带翻译3 篇 My Chinese Dream 我的中国梦 I am very glad to stand here to give thier a short speech.Today my topic is that the youth are the future of motherland 很高兴站在这里做这篇短小的演 讲，我演讲的主题是青年是祖国的未来。 When preparing for the English speech contest, I simply want to search some articles as the contents of my speech. I read a lot of articles, some from the university professor, some from the famous host, some from the college students, and even from junior high school students. But after reading it, I gave up the idea, I even felt shameful. Today,the topic I want to talk about is a solemn and serious theme full of glory and pride, which is a common aspiration of all our Chinese. Every Chinese has his own dream of China, and of course, there is a dream lingering in my heart only belongs to my own. 在准备英语演讲比赛的时候，我本 想简单地从网上搜索一些文章作为我演 讲的内容。我看过很多文章，有著名主 持人的、北大教授的、大学生的，也有 初中生的。但是看完之后，我放弃了当 初的想法，我甚至为当初的想法感到有 一些羞愧。因为今天我站在这里向大家 演讲的主题，是一个庄重而严肃的主题; 是一个充满荣耀与自豪的主题;是每一 个中华儿女共同期盼的主题。每个人都 有属于他们自己的中国梦，而我，当然 也有一直萦绕在心怀只属于我的中国 梦。 So what?s my Chinese dream ? Finally I will announce. We had learned a lot of knowledge and understood a lot of truth in the book. We had a basic concept to our country at that time. We know that our country is full of sunshine , and we are the future of our country, and our dreams are to be the hope of our motherland. 我的中国梦是什么样的,先卖个关 子。 记得刚刚上学那会儿，我们天真无 邪。在课本里，我们学到了很多很多知 识，也明白了很多很多道理，我们对祖 国也有了一个最基本的概念。我们知道 我们的祖国到处充满阳光，正在慢慢发 展，而我们，就是祖国未来的花朵，未 来的希望。我们梦想将来能够成为祖国 的希望。 However,We don't know what time to start,We are grow up,Life became not the same, though we don?t want to admit, it?s the truth that our mind and attitude to our country is changing. Our society became full of deception, indifference, intrigue, pressure, corruption, sinister, and we became irritable and not calm, detest the world and its ways. Our country seems to have become in a disastrous state too. A lot of young students who were nurtured by our motherland became impatient, let alone what are their dreams , what is the china dream ? 这，是我们最初的中国梦。最真诚 的我们，最真诚的梦。 但是，不知道什么时候开始，我们 长大了，生活似乎一下子变得和以前不 太一样了，与此同时，虽然我们很不想 承认但是却又不得不承认的是，我们的 思想，我们的为人处世观，我们对我们 祖国的看法，也潜移默化中慢慢开始了 转变。我们的社会变得到处充满欺骗、 冷漠、勾心斗角、压力、腐败、险恶， 我们变得暴躁，不冷静，愤世嫉俗。我 们的国家，似乎也开始变得千疮百孔。 而好多我们亲爱的祖国委以重任培养的 青年学生们变得轻浮、急躁，更别提什 么梦想，什么中国梦了, I was surprised ,when the old man fell down in the street,We are afraid to help him.I was disappointed ,when someone do good things were reported,many people think he was affectation, I was sad,when I saw many of young people become indifferent ,fraud and lack of ideal. Are we sick, or is our dear motherland sick? 我很惊讶，当大街上有老人摔倒， 我们不敢再去扶起;我很难过，当有人 做了好事被报道，更多的人说他做作; 我很伤心，当我看到我们众多的青年人 变得冷漠、市侩、欺诈以及缺乏理想。 到底是我们病了，还是我们亲爱的 祖国病了, I don't want to talk about the construction of our country politics, and also speak impassioned speech on the Diaoyu Island event .I just want to appeal young people,showing the side of youth,good and confidence.We must learn to organize our own thoughts, correct our own concept, and change our direction to the right side in future life. China dream actually lies in our young generation, especially of the intellectuals. 我的中国梦，不想大谈政治，也不 想对钓鱼岛事件发表慷慨激昂的演讲。 我只想呼吁，呼吁我们年轻人，呼吁我 们祖国的希望能够将我们的青春一面， 将我们的善良一面，将我们的自信一面 好好展现出来。我们要学会整理自己的 思想，端正自己看问题的观念，摆正自 己的人生方向。我们的中国梦实际上正 掌握在我们自己手上，掌握在我们年青 一代，尤其是知识分子手上。 Perhaps the strength of a person is small, but when his or her fate is connected with the motherland, he or she will be hero or heroine. Perhaps a dream is tiny, but when it becomes the dream of a country, it becomes inestimable. Perhaps I cannot change our country by my own, but if thousands and thousands of young people struggle for the dream together, our motherland is enough to make the world shock. 也许，一个人，是渺小的;但是当 他和祖国联系起来时，就是伟大的。也 许，一个梦想，是渺小的，但是当它成 为祖国的梦想时，就是不可估量的。也 许，我无法用自己一个人的力量撬起整 个中国，但是我们千千万万年轻人一起 为祖国的梦想去奋斗时，我们的祖国就 足以令世界颤抖、动容。 I dream to construct our beauty China with millions of young people who have the same dream. We do it without exaggeration but only with persistence. 我梦想和万千具有相同梦想的年轻 人去建设我们的美丽中国，没有虚浮， 只有执着，只有奋斗，只有勇于担当。 这就是我的中国梦～ That is my speech,thanks everyone. 我的演讲就到这里，谢谢大家。 We Are The World ,We Are The Future 世界是我们的，未来是我们的 Someone said “we are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book, whose pages are infinite”. I don?t know who wrote these words, but I?ve always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want it to be. We are all in the position of the farmers. If we plant a good seed ,we reap a good harvest. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all. 一些人说?我们正在读一本无穷的 书中的第一章的第一节。?我不知道谁写 了这些话，但是我一直很喜欢它，因为 它提醒了我，我们能够创造我们想要的 未来。 We are young. “How to spend the youth?” It is a meaningful question. To answer it, first I have to ask “what do you understand by the word youth?” Youth is not a time of life, it?s a state of mind. It?s not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips or supple knees. It?s the matter of the will. It?s the freshness of the deep spring of life. 我们都是农夫。如果我们播下好的 种子，我们将会丰收。如果我们的种子 很差，有很多草籽，收割的将是无用的 庄稼。如果我们什么也不播种，什么收 获也没有。 Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite , for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20 . Nobody grows old merely by a number of years . We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years wrinkle the skin , but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul . Worry , fear , self –distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust . 我们是年轻的。?怎样度过青春??这 是个有意义的问题。为了去回答它，我 首先要问?从‘青春’这个词中你能理解 到什么?? 青春不是人生的一个时期，而 是精神的一种状态。青春不是桃面、丹 唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，。青春是生 命的深泉在涌流. Whether 60 of 16 , there is in every human being ?s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what?s next and the joy of the game of living . In the center of your heart and my heart there?s a wireless station : so long as it receives messages of beauty , hope ,cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long as you are young . A poet said “To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour. Several days ago, I had a chance to listen to a lecture. I learnt a lot there. I?d like to share it with all of you. Let?s show our right palms. We can see three lines that show how our love.career and life is. I have a short line of life. What about yours? I wondered whether we could see our future in this way. Well, let?s make a fist. Where is our future? Where is our love, career, and life? Tell me.Yeah, it is in our hands. It is held in ourselves. 一位诗人说?从一粒沙看世界，从一 朵花看天堂，把无限放在你的手掌，永 恒在一刹那里收藏?。几天前，我有了一 个听讲座的机会，从中我学到了很多东 西。现在，我想把这些与大家共享。让 我们伸出右手，我们可以看到手掌中的 展示我们的爱，事业和生活的三条线。 我在生活方面这条线很短，那你们的呢? 我想知道我们是否可以用这种办法去看 我们的未来。好的，让我们一起握拳。 我们的未来在哪儿?我们的爱、事业和生 活在哪儿?告诉我!是的，它们就在我们的 手中。它们被我们自己掌握着。 We all want the future to be better than the past. But the future can go better itself. Don?t cry because it is over, smile because it happened. From the past, we?ve learnt that the life is tough, but we are tougher. We?ve learnt that we can?t choose how we feel, but we can choose what