CONCORD WEST TOASTMASTERS MEETING No: 1102 – Tuesday 12th April 2011

SPEECHCRAFT 2011 SESSION THREE

SPECIAL GUEST EDITOR – VPE CHRIS

Daniel opened the meeting on time and Chris (in Brett's temporary absence) gave the President's Welcome including welcoming our 3 guests; Lyndal, Raghu and Samatha.

 

Kimberley was Chairman for both sessions of the meeting and kept it running smoothly as well as keeping it appropriately light hearted. The introductory question was what was our favourite movie and there were some varying responses from Wind Talkers to Love Actually.

Peter introduced the Word of the Day as "Ubiquitous" and 3 members managed to use the word appropriately throughout the meeting.

Natasha was Toastmaster of the Educational Session which included tips for delivering an Introduction delivered by Glenn and some hints regarding appropriate use of Body Language delivered by Josh.

The second half of the meeting began with Glen Toasting our current VPE, Chris, for his hard work so far during the year.

The Speech Session was chaired by Daniel and included Chris' final speech in his Competent Communicator titled 5, talking about his favourite holiday spots. Brett's speech was a persuasive speech delivered in character as a lawyer designed to prove his clients innocent of all charges. Glenn and Lyndal ably evaluated the speeches respectively, providing helpful hints for further improvement.

Table Topics was run by Natasha, and as usual Natasha came up with a very different way to run the session. The speakers were all selected at the start and one by one asked to continue on from the previous speaker in developing a story about a time traveller. Natasha came up with an appropriate introduction for Peter to speak from. Other speakers were Juliet, Chris, Raghu (visitor ably participating in Table Topics for the first time), Lyndal and Josh. Brett and Glen, who picked up some positive aspects of the Table Topics, which everyone could learn from, Evaluated the speakers.

The summary items for the meeting were as follows:
• Juliet counted the Um's and Ah's. This was her first time and she was very attentive.
• Peter was the Grammarian and managed to pick up a few aspects of our grammar that we could improve upon whilst highlighting some quite pleasing aspects including clever uses of alliteration.
• Kimberley delivered the Big Ears segment and demonstrated some very accurate throwing skills as well as some challenging phrases.
• Bernard was the Timer for the evening and gave a great introduction into the benefits of learning from the timing role and pointed out individuals who went over time by more than 25%.
• Paul gave the General Evaluation of all participants not already evaluated for the evening and ably covered all members and roles.

Announcements for the evening included Natasha promoting the Debate Meeting that is coming up on the 14th of June. In replacement of the normal Prepared Speeches, there will be a debate comprised of 3 speakers each on opposing teams.

In his usual style, Brett closed the meeting in a very positive manner.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday 26th April – Speechcraft Session 4

Tuesday 10th May – Speechcraft Session 5

Tuesday 24th May – Speechcraft Session 6

Tuesday 14th June – The Great Debate