演講的本質在于“講”，而不在于“演”，它以“講”為主、以“演”為輔。由于演講要訴諸口頭，擬稿時必須以易說能講為前提。如果說，有些文章和作品主要通過閱讀欣賞，領略其中意義和情味，那么，演講稿的要求則是“上口入耳”。一篇好的演講稿對演講者來說要可講;對聽講者來說應好聽，我們的英語演講開場白也可是不循規(guī)蹈矩，抓住演講內容的重點，抓住聽講者的興趣點，只要能引起聽講者的共鳴，這個演講就算是比較成功的演講，下面的開場白都有些特別，讓我們來一起學習幾種有難度但是很獨特能點亮整篇演講稿的英語開場白：
1.For the past few years, I've been spending my summers in the marine biological laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. And there, what I've been doing is essentially renting a boat. What I would like to do is ask you to come on a boat ride with me tonight....

2.How many of you have used an electronic spreadsheet, like Microsoft Excel? Very good. Now, how many of you have run a business with a spreadsheet by hand, like my dad did for his small printing business in Philadelphia? A lot less.
Well, that's the way it was done for hundreds of years. ...

3. Let's imagine a sculptor building a statue, just chipping away with his chisel. Michelangelo had this elegant way of describing it when he said, "Every block of stone has a statue inside of it, and it's the task of the sculptor to discover it." But what if he worked in the opposite direction? Not from a solid block of stone, but from a pile of dust, somehow gluing millions of these particles together to form a statue....