초등학교 5학년 영어 말하기 대회 대본

 

(2023년 영어 말하기 대회에서 사용한 대본입니다.)

I'm an only child, but I was not alone.

 

I am an only child. 

I used to think I was always alone because I don't have any sibling. 

Since both my mom and dad have their own jobs, 

I often eat alone, do my homework alone, and I play alone at home. 

I manage to do anything by myself because I'm used to being alone.

This summer my mom recommended CTY camp in the USA for the gifted in math and science. 

To America? alone? 

Of course, at first, I was a little puzzled and afraid of an unfamiliar environment that I encountered alone, but I soon had excitement and expectation for a new challenge because I was used to being alone. 

However, I was never alone. I realized it through the camp.

 

On the first day, I struggled to solve the questions by myself as usual although they were eccentric and difficult. 

Surprisingly, while the students gave absurd and unexpected answers, 

the professor just said "good guess", "creative" or “Why?” instead of "It's wrong" or "It's not the answer." 

Thanks to the professor's reactions, I gradually had the courage to try answering my diverse guesses about “why”. 

Interestingly, I experienced that the absurd guesses from others eventually could become clues to the problems that I had not been able to solve. 

In this way, I realized that solving a problem was never just my holding a pen and writing notes on my own.

 

Another new experience at the camp was that I stayed away from any monitors. 

I had fun playing card games in the dorm bed, secretly turning on the lamp at night and so on. 

When I came back to Korea, I found out that I was not alone already. 

The access to something was just different. 

There are also teachers who are my guides here in Hanyang. 

Besides, whether online or offline, I had friends around me. 

That's why I had courage to do anything alone and I wasn't that lonely even when I was alone.

Above all, I have my parents who always support and help me.

If I had actually been alone, I couldn't have had this precious experience. 

I wasn't originally alone.

And even now, I'm not alone. 

Thank you my parents, my teachers and my friends.

I love you.

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