how to protect eye glasses

Speech
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Today I’m very happy to give you a speech.
Spectacles, or glasses, play an integrated role in most students’ life, especially for those who are near sighted. According to a survey carried out by the Ministry of Health in 2009, there are over 60% teenagers in China suffer form the problem of near sight, and the rate of university near eye sighted student is about 83% high. Just as the case, we can see many students around us wear glasses to help them see things clearly. However, few of them realize the importance of protecting their glasses. If glasses can be maintained in a correct way, not only can it help our vision correction but also help us save the money for regular changing new glasses. So, today I want to inform my audience how to protect glasses in cleaning, keeping and examining three ways.
To begin with, I want to tell all of you the correct procedures of cleaning glasses lenses and this usually includes 4 steps. First, please remember to make sure your hands are clean before you start cleaning your glasses. After cleaning hands, then comes the second step. Use water wash glasses for a while and make it get wet. Use your thumb and index finger to wash glasses lenses in this way with another hand holding the glasses frame. In this step, you should control your strength and keep washing in the same direction, horizontal direction or vertical direction. Next, if water only can’t clean the glasses thoroughly, use neutral soap or specialize cleanser to help you and wash away the foam. Finally, use facial tissue to sop up the remained water, and then use the glasses clean cloth to wipe the lenses. Here I have a tip for those students who get used to wipe their glasses with clothes or handkerchief. Never use your clothes or handkerchief to wipe the lenses; this is not acceptable as some rough material can easily scratch the lenses.
Although cleaning plays an important role in glasses maintenance, there is no denying that keeping the glasses in a correct way also helps the
glasses to be used longer. Now, let’s come to the second part—the correct way of keeping glasses. Generally speaking, we use different ways to keep our glasses in different situations.
Firstly, during short breaks, we usually take off the glasses for temporary reason, so you just need put it on the desk. Use two hands to take off glasses but not one hand, because it can keep the frame from distorting. Then place the glasses’ convexity side upward s as it can help glasses lenses from abrading. (Presenting the way) When your glasses won’t be used for a long time, I recommend using a glasses case and a piece of glasses clean cloth to keep it. And do it in this way. (Presenting the way) Then remember to keep the glasses in those places without corrosive items such as insecticide, toilet bowl cleanser, cosmetic and medicine. And make sure it won’t be exposed to the sun for long a time since the strong sunlight will discolor and deteriorate the frame.
In addition to the cleaning and keeping parts, our glasses need to be examined by the optometrist and this is the third way of protecting glasses.
First, go to those opticians which have high reputation. You may get some useful information from your friends who also have near eye sight, and surf the internet you can also learn a lot about the opticians. Many people think that once they get their eye glasses in one store, there is no need for them to pay a return visit. Actually, this is not correct. In most cases, the optician will offer their customer with the service of free examine, but most of the people never go back to the optician until they want to change for another pair of glasses. You’d better pay return visits to the optometrist at regular intervals and ask them for professional help.
My dear friends, protecting eye glasses is not a difficult or complicated matter if you spare some of your time to cleaning, keeping and examining these three parts. But what counts most is that we should protect our eyes. This is the end of my speech, thank you for your listening.。