Useful Links

Link to Toastmaster Club Meeting

Plan of Attack

when people are doing their table topics you can memorise….
50 points. 10 words
the average sentence is 10 to 15 words
500 words is 5 mins approx
gen evaluation gets 5 to 7 minutes

Preprepared Statements for General Evaluation

Good evening everybody…. y’know there is nothing worse than a dreary long general evaluators report at the end of a meeting, but I’ll have a go anyway…
Our speech evaluators this evening were: Anwar, Paul and Gemma
and the question is: did the find deep, insights that only the most seasoned rhetor would discover…. or did they instead resort to phrases such as use the stage and more vocal variety.
let explore this together
Nicola’s speech on how to use storytelling in your speaking was
Anwar…
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deep thinker
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Jo’s speech “if not you then who…”
Paul…
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nrg and positivity
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Rudra’s speech on ….. i love cats and non cats equally
Gemma…
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is a professional
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Overall speech evaluations
similarities
differences
Deep insights
Table topics evaluation has its own challenges, although insights are not expected to be as deep, there is zero time to prepare.
Erika….
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Satchin our table topics master
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Grammarian role can also be made to something akin to an evaluation role.
Neil……
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you know im going to say great getting mention of rhetorical devices \ travesty not to mention Fiona’s ….. \
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I have a theory that it is possible to pre-plan a grammarian speech because by drawing upon a preplanned set of definitions for rhetorical devices
Our Timer
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some people like to give an annecdote about time at the start, make a joke,
referring to table topic speech e.g. SAY EXACT TIME
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our sergeant at arms Gary, and vote counter debbie did good job ensuring meeting kept running also.
And finally our TOASTMASTER of the evening Fiona
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small follow on statements that reference something in speech just gone a way of sounding spontaneous and engaged with what is going on
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prepepared images

Toastmaster

Fiona is clearly someone thinks carefully about her choice of words
Although Fiona came across as natural and spontaneous my guess is that she put the effort in preparing for tonights meeting.
The first part of the evening is always the most onerous for the toastmaster, getting the meeting going and setting the tone for the meeting ahead.

Timer

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Table Topics Master

Evaluations more generally

the key to a good speech evaluation is to only biefly cover the obvious points most of us would pick up on: e.g. use of the stage, vocal variety, structure
it is an incredibly difficult task analyse and then present your analysis in the space of 15 to 20 minutes 1.

Anwar

Anwar deep thinker and i think he is the sort of person that may benefit longer than onky 20mins get to prepare
anwar went for the unconventional line of…..

Paul

Gemma

an energetic speech from Rudra
grammatical example it was potentially criminal of Neil not to mention
delighted that he picked up on … such as .. rhetorical example
it is an incredibly difficult task analyse and present your analysis in the space of 15 to 20 minutes