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(Imitate phone ringing) Ring-ring! Ring-ring! Ah, that’s my buddy playing ‘missed calls’ with me. (Imitate phone beeping) -beep! h, it’s a telegram massage "rom my mum, as#ing whether I will be bac# "or dinner. $obile phones, once the preser%e o" the high-powered businessperson, are now a %ital part o" daily li"e "or an enormous amount o" people. I" I were to see a show o" hands, I’m sure that &' percent o" the audience here owns a hand phone. And i" you do not, I can only thin# o" two reasons why you don’t. irst, it might be that you are too shy to admit it, or secondly, your parents "orbid you to own one. rom schoolchildren to pensioners, e%ery section o" society has "ound that it is much easier now to stay in touch when you’%e got a mobile. %er the past "ew years, mobile phones ha%e become more and more ad% ad%anc anced, ed, wit with h bui builtlt-in in cam cameras eras,, glob global al pos positi itioni oning ng de% de%ice ices, s, bluetooth, internet access and many more. ow, we can start to see the arri%all o" the ‘third generation’ arri%a generation’ o" mobile phones* power"ul microcomputers microcomputers with wi th br broa oadba dband nd in inte terne rnett ac acce cess ss,, wh whic ich h wi will ll al allow low us to st strea ream m mo mo%i %ie, e, download downl oad internet "iles at high speed and send instant %ideo clips to "amily and "riends. +es, with "eatures that gets better and better e%ery day, the mobile phone is becoming more and more necessary in our daily li%es.
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A %ery good morning I bid to the hairperson, wise and honorable udgers, as well as members o" the "loor. I stand here be"ore you today to present my speech on the topic o" ‘$obile hones* A ecessary /ool0’
1adies and gentlemen,
/he de%elopment o" mobile phones brought con%enience and ad%antages to the world. 2ith new models, communication between people is easier and speedier. e%ertheless, e%ery coin has two sides. /he disad%antages brought along with the "ast-growing technology cannot be ignored. ot only do these problems in"luence people, society is also a""ected.
irst o" all, mobile phone addiction is a I3 social problem. sychiatrists belie%e that mobile phone addiction is becoming one o" the I3345/ nondrug addictions in the 67st century8 can you belie%e it0! Along with the age drop o" mobile phones users and the ease o" prepaid method pro%ided by system operators such as $a9is and :igi, most teenagers now own their own hand phones and networ# ser%ice. 2ith attracti%e pac#ages such as ;otlin# by $a9is and
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either chatting away, busy typing te9t messages or personali=ing their phones with "un#y ring tones and pictures at almost e%ery corner o" a shopping mall. 2ell, i" sending te9t messages %ia hand phones is one o" the e%ents in the lympic 3ames, I’m sure some o" us here will be part o" the $alaysian contingent! wning a mobile phone can sometimes disrupt your own pri%acy. Imagine, you’re ha%ing a peace"ul a"ternoon nap when your phone rings. As you might not want to miss anything urgent or important, you hastily pic# up the phone. +ou answer it only to "ind that it is ust a "riend who wants to tell you the latest gossip. h gosh! 2ouldn’t that be irritating!!!
1adies and gentlemen,
Ale9ander 3raham ell would be ama=ed i" he could see how "ar the science o" telephone has progressed in less than 7>' years and how irritating it might sometimes be to man#ind. ;e might e%en regret in%enting the telephone at "irst, as it has caused many countless social problems. o, I’m not saying that mobile phones are not use"ul. h yes, it has bene"ited us in many ways. /here"ore, I hope each and e%ery one o" us here would
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be more considerate and rational when utili=ing this modern gadget. 1et Ale9ander 3raham ell #now that his in%ention has been put to good use.
-eep! -eep! ;ey! Is that your what’s apps massage0 ?ust #idding! 2ith that, I than# you.
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@$usic
Assalamualai#um and a %ery good morning to my "ellow "riends, teachers and udges. /oday, on this "ine morning, I would li#e to present to you a public speech about ‘$usic’.
$usic. 2e hear it e%ery day. o matter where we are, music will always be played either on the radio or ust by humming a tune. :id you #now that music started as early as the aleolithic era0 5o music is about 6'' ''' years old. 2ow! It’s so old. 5till people enoy listening to this ‘old’ art "or nearly 6'' millenniums.
$usic is an art which uses sound as its main medium. /he word ‘music’ originated "rom a 3ree# word ‘mousi#e’ (musi#is), which means art o" the $uses ($uses). /he $uses are the 3oddesses o" 3ree# who lo%es art and literature.
/he elements needed to produce music are pitch, rhythm and dynamics. /he pitch is the combination o" melody and harmony. Rhythm is the beat o" the music. :ynamics are the %olume. At "irst the song starts so"t then it gradually starts to get loud. 5uddenly there’s an accent and e%erything settles down and dies away.
An obect needs to be %ibrated in order to produce sound. 1et’s ta#e a guitar "or e9ample. 2e pluc# the strings in order to %ibrate them. /he sound wa%es then enter the hollow wood and echoes in order to ma#e the sound louder. ;ow about a woodwind and a brass instrument0 Ah, but there’s a catch. /hese two instruments are the same but they are not ali#e. oth instruments need ‘pu"" power’. ut a woodwind instrument uses holes to indicate di""erent notes whilst the brass "amily uses %al%es.
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5ome standard orchestral instrumental "amilies are the strings "amily, as in pianos, guitars, %iolins and so on. e9t, the woodwind "amily. or e9ample, "lutes, recorders, bassoons and others. 1astly, the brass "amily. /he "amily consists o" trumpets, rench horns, tubas and others. 5ometimes, people use imaginary instruments li#e the air guitar. /hey are ust basically strumming li#e a guitar but without a guitar. 5till the song is playing in their heads.
/he music genre is generally endless. It ranges "rom Acapella to usion a==, 3aana to $u=a# also #nown as the music you here in ele%ators, agauta, a #ind o" ?apanese style o" music, to Rumba, 5abar to Bydeco. 5abar is not the $alay word "or rela9. It is a drumming style "ound in 5enegal. ;a%e you heard0 /here’s another genre coming! Re%olution op is created by Csher Raymond. h, you #now! ;e’s ?ustin ieber’s mentor. /he most popular genres that we hear nowadays are pop, dominated by the late Ding o" op, $icheal ?ac#son. Roc#, conEuered by 4l%is resley. un#, played by bands li#e 3reen :ay and aramore. ountry written by /aylor 5wi"t and a "ew others. ut the only thing I can’t deny is that the most popular genre right now is Dpop or Dorean op. oy bands li#e 5uper ?unior and girl groups such as 647 are e9amples o" artists who gets in%ol%e in D-pop. oys and girls are going nuts o%er the artists.
/hrough music and the lyrics, a massage could be passed through. $oral %alues could also be "ound in them. 5ome song lyrics contain impolite words which should be a%oided as it could contaminate the thought. $oti%ating songs could boost and moti%ate anyone who listens to it.
omposers are people whose ob is to ma#e music. $usic could come out as comple9 as it sounds or e%en as easy as ust ma#ing up a tune by humming. It may sound di""icult but i" you ha%e the will to learn and create music, then it won’t be that di""icult. An e9ample o" a classical composer that we always hear but seldom #now is 1udwig %an eetho%en who wrote the song entitled Fr 4lise. At the age o" 6G, 1udwig %an eetho%en started to lose his sense o" hearing. ;e gradually became dea" but that 6
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did not stop him "rom creating more "antastic music. :on’t #now who’s eetho%en0 ;ow about we ta#e someone local. 4dry Abdul ;alim. ne o" the members o" a boy band with the name DRC. ;e has created music "or many A#ademi antasia candidates and many are a hit!
$usic is written theoretically and made real practically. It li%es in e%ery one o" us. $usic is li#e an international language. 4%en though we do not understand the lyrics but we understand the melody. /he rhythm. /he harmony. 4%erything starts small. In music, it starts with a note. /hen, a tune. A"ter that, a rhythm and a melody. inally, a harmonious song that unites e%eryone disregarding the race or the bac#ground or whate%er at all was born. $usic unites the souls o" $alaysia and the world. 3uess what! 2e enoy it!
/han# you and Assalamualai#um.
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