Topics of Past National English Speech and Writing Contests

This is a webpage at the website of Taichung Municipal Hui-Wen High School. On this page you can find topics of national English speech and writing contests in recent years. What's better, it offers links to the winning essays on "Being a Good Writer" in the 2010 writing contest.

http://www5.hwsh.tc.edu.tw/web/359631/forum/-/message_boards/message/459929#_19_message_459929

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This webpage lists more topics.

歷年高中英文演講/作文比賽決賽題目

http://203.64.159.67/~english/article/eng_contest_topics.htm

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The following webpage gives not only the topics of the 2013 National Speech and Writing Contests but the winning essays.

http://www.tngs.tn.edu.tw/102entest/

I like that year's writing topic:

國立暨私立高級中等學校102學年度英文作文決賽 題目：

We often measure our worth by the harvest we reap. We could, however, weigh our worth by the seeds we plant given that the end result can be as important as the process. Discuss your viewpoints in your writing entitled “Measuring Life’s Worth by ________” to tell us how you might measure your achievement with the examples you have in your life.

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Here's a list of the words filled in the blank found in the winning essays:

North Taiwan:

1. Writing

2. Your Contribution to the World

3. the Beliefs We Hold on to

4. Determination

5. the Seeds we Plant

Central Taiwan:

6. Effort

7. the Effort We Put

8. Attitude

9. Our Endeavor

10. Learning

11. What I Learn from Mistakes

12. What We Can Do for Others

South Taiwan:

13. Giving

14. Process

15. Helping Others

16. Efforts and Process

17. Happiness

18. the Process