每日英语口语练习：2026-08-03（星期一）
周一 TED 演讲片段：Sir Ken Robinson《Do schools kill creativity?》（学校扼杀创造力吗？），TED2006，TED 官网累计播放超 8000 万次，史上最受欢迎的 TED 演讲。观点鲜明、笑点密集、金句频出，是学「讲故事式演讲」的最佳范本。
1. 📖 原文：TED 演讲节选
演讲：Do schools kill creativity?（学校扼杀创造力吗？） 演讲者：Sir Ken Robinson（英国教育家、创造力研究权威，2003 年受封爵士） 场合：TED2006（美国加州 Monterey），2006 年 2 月 节选说明：以下为演讲的核心段落（约 276 词），据 TED 官网官方 transcript 整理。含「画上帝的小女孩」故事与全文中心论点，中间仅略去”三王献礼（Frank sent this）“一节以控制篇幅。
My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
I heard a great story recently — I love telling it — of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson. She was six, and she was at the back, drawing, and the teacher said this girl hardly ever paid attention, and in this drawing lesson, she did. The teacher was fascinated. She went over to her, and she said, “What are you drawing?” And the girl said, “I’m drawing a picture of God.” And the teacher said, “But nobody knows what God looks like.” And the girl said, “They will in a minute.”
What these things have in common is that kids will take a chance. If they don’t know, they’ll have a go. Am I right? They’re not frightened of being wrong. I don’t mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original — if you’re not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this. We stigmatize mistakes. And we’re now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. And the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.
Picasso once said this, he said that all children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up. I believe this passionately, that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out of it. So why is this?
2. 🎬 视频/音频资源
- TED 官方 YouTube 原版（最推荐，20:04 完整版，2489 万播放）：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY （TED 官方频道，含官方英文字幕，可开 0.75 倍速跟读）
- TED 官网（8037 万播放，官方 transcript 与多语言字幕）：https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity
- 精华剪辑（2:15，含本节”画上帝”故事）：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4IAa8wZlqU （TED 官方频道 “Why schools need to embrace kids’ creativity”）
- 姊妹篇：《How to escape education’s death valley | Sir Ken Robinson | TED》（TED 官方，19:12，697 万播放）—— 2013 年 TED 演讲，观点延续，适合进阶
3. 📝 重点词汇
| 词汇 | 音标 | 释义 | 例句 |
|---|---|---|---|
| contention | /kənˈtenʃn/ | 论点；主张 | ”My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy.” |
| take a chance | /teɪk ə tʃɑːns/ | 冒险一试 | ”Kids will take a chance. If they don’t know, they’ll have a go.” |
| have a go | /hæv ə ɡəʊ/ | 试一试（英式口语） | “If they don’t know, they’ll have a go.” |
| frightened | /ˈfraɪtnd/ | 害怕的（比 afraid 更口语） | “They’re not frightened of being wrong.” |
| stigmatize | /ˈstɪɡmətaɪz/ | 污名化；贬低 | ”We stigmatize mistakes.” |
| original | /əˈrɪdʒənl/ | 原创的；独创的 | ”You’ll never come up with anything original.” |
| capacity | /kəˈpæsəti/ | 能力；才能 | ”Most kids have lost that capacity.” |
| grow out of | /ɡrəʊ aʊt əv/ | 随长大而失去；戒掉 | ”We don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it.” |
4. 💬 跟读练习建议
- 先听原版：完整听一遍 iG9CE55wbtY（20 分钟），重点感受 Robinson 的英式幽默节奏 —— 每讲完一个笑点都停顿等掌声（0.5–1 秒）。
- 影子跟读（Shadowing）：跟读 03:23–03:48 的”画上帝”故事段，落后原声 0.5 秒；这段语速中等、对话多，是模仿叙述节奏的最佳片段。
- 金句精读：把 “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”（16 词）和 “All children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.” 各读 10 遍，注意重音落在 wrong 和 original 上。
- 对比重音练习：朗读 “we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it”，用重音和停顿突出 grow into / grow out of 的对立。
- 录音复盘：录下自己讲”画上帝”故事的版本（约 40 秒），与原声对比停顿位置和句尾语调，找出”讲笑话像背书”的地方。
5. 🔄 即兴口语练习
Prompt 1（60 秒）：用 “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” 开头，讲一件你最近「敢于犯错才做成的事」。用上 take a chance / original。
Prompt 2（90 秒）：用「铺垫 → 对话 → 反转」三幕结构，向朋友复述”画上帝的小女孩”的故事，训练讲笑话的节奏与悬念感。用上 fascinated / hardly ever。
Prompt 3（60 秒）：观点表达 — Do you agree that “schools kill creativity”? 用上 contention / stigmatize / capacity，给出两个理由。
Prompt 4（90 秒）：Picasso 说 “All children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.” 谈谈你小时候有、长大后却丢失的一项能力（画画、想象力、大胆发言……），它为什么消失了？
6. 📋 发音技巧提示
1. 英式发音（British RP）
- Robinson 是英国口音：非重读元音更”紧”，dance 读 /dɑːns/、chance 读 /tʃɑːns/（美音为 /tʃæns/）。跟读时先统一选一种口音，不要英美混读。
- 辅音 /t/ 在词中清晰爆破（美音常变闪音 /ɾ/）：little /ˈlɪtl/、frightened /ˈfraɪtnd/。
2. 讲笑话的「反转停顿」（Punchline Pause）
- 故事最关键的一步是停顿：跟读 “They will — in a minute.” 时，在 They will 后停顿 0.5 秒再抛 in a minute，笑点全靠这个停顿。
- 同样：“Frank sent this.”（原文中三王献礼段）—— 短句 + 重音 + 停顿 = 笑点。
3. 修辞问句的升调（Rhetorical Question Intonation）
- “Am I right?” 句尾升调，但 Robinson 说出来带着”求认同”的轻松感，不是真提问。跟读时保持轻快，不要读得太重。
4. 重复句的递进（Repetition for Emphasis）
- “if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original — if you’re not prepared to be wrong.” 同一条件句重复两遍，第二遍放慢、加重，这是演讲中「重复强调」的经典手法。
5. 连读与弱读（Linking & Weak Forms）
- “take‿a‿chance” → /teɪk‿ə‿tʃɑːns/
- “have‿a‿go” → /hæv‿ə‿ɡəʊ/
- “all‿children” → /ɔːl‿ˈtʃɪldrən/
- “and” 弱读 /ən/，“of” 弱读 /əv/：“out‿of‿it” → /aʊt‿əv‿ɪt/。
6. 情绪词的重读
- “I believe this passionately” —— passionately /ˈpæʃənətli/ 四个音节放慢读出，是全文情感最饱满的一句，练熟它，你的演讲就有了”高光时刻”。
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” — 今天敢开口，明天才出彩。