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My opening speech was about the one member who started the club and wanted a full house. (A story from Raymond?) Our club has several selling points. British English accent and impeccable grammar and spelling from Angela Lansbury.  American English from Faith. Mandarin to explain things to Mandarin speakers from Faith. 2019-2020 Siva said our club is notable for its evalutions with useful suggestions including English language (grammar tips and pronunciation) whilst some in house clubs the evaluators are told not to discourage the workers which discourages the evaluators from giving helpful suggestions. Sam Chou, VPE of West coast, said he wants to emulate Faith's speeches, he quipped I have faith in the club. and listen to Angela's (British) accent. We had two workshops.  Language Workshop by Arun. Club Growth by Siva, excellent presentation with slides. Several useful sugestions. Attending 13 people, five members 1 Angela (Opening speech) 2 Faith - table top...

Children should learn to sing 12 languages so they can learn the accents whilst they are young. They can pick up the grammar and vocabulary later in life.

Trophy for BHA as President's Distinguished club. BHA, like many clubs, in Toastmasters International, Rotary clubs, and elsewhere, has membership ups and downs. "Braddell Heights Advanced speakers' Club, once had only one member," said Mr Poh. So, how did the club grow? That member said he wanted 'a full house'. He aimed to have 25 people at a meeting. 1 So he invited everybody he knew. 2 He asked them all to bring along at least one friend. When people came along they found a busy thriving meeting. Full of good speakers and VIPs The visitors joined the club, which grew and grew. ............ Clubs have their ups and downs, like every day of your life, and every year of your life.  The club grew and became successful. It produced lots of contest winners and had the motto, we make champions for life. Even non-members came back to us to get coaching from our members. Manoj was so pleased with our help, that he gave our club one of his trophies which ...

From Angela 1 Meet regularly. 2 Committee meet regularly, before or after the meeting. 3 Have a printed draft of the words spoken by the TMD.  4 Brief the TMD on saying Toastmasters plural, and turn on the video not on or off without a verb which is correct Singlish but you want to use internationally understood British English. 1 Keep track of your members 2 Plan Meetings ahead 3 Chase up the missing members

July 1st 2020 was the start of the new Toastmasters year. Toastmasters runs from July 1st until the following June 30th. Faith took over from me, Angela Lansbury, as president of BHA. To keep track of club meetings, I run off a calendar and fill in the club meeting days, times. You can do this in your diary, next year's diary, and a year calendar. The one month calendar often allows just enough room for you to add your speech details. I write the Pathway, the level 1, 2, 3 , 4 or 5. I add the project. Finally, the speech title.  I might add the evaluator. And their phone number.

Arun's rhetorical devices. Linda Ong of BH2 Linda'' evaluator is Bhanu Prakash Workshop on Club Growth by Siva. Useful Websites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric Modern examples, simpler, easier to read. https://blog.prepscholar.com/rhetorical-devices-list-examples

Workshop - rhetorical devices by Arun. Useful Websites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric

Jun 10 2020, the wonderful Wednesday workshop was by Hyder Taufik. Setback - Non-Member All day I was exchanging messages with TMD Pallavi and Learncool developer Yudy. We had too many speakers, four. But somebody always drops out. The day started with a setback. Pallavi was asking for Shona's Pathways project level. I speculated that perhaps Shona was not a member of any Toastmasters club. Pallavi was adamant, "In that case Shona cannot give a speech. It is not a Pathways speech, which is required by toastmasters, and the Evaluator does not have the form to evaluate it." Shona admitted she was not a Toastmaster. Speaker lost! On the other hand, we now had 3 speakers. Just the right number. Not too many. Opportunity - Potential New Member I had been hunting for ages for non-members of toastmasters to join BHA. Now I had one, Shona! WOD and Topics - First While people were logging in I showed the slide of the word of the day which was 'first'. The bes...

Here is Ng Kin Fung at BHA What a jolly meeting at S P Jain, named after the Indian who founded the Polytehnic.  The Toastmasters International club for students at S P Jain was established by President Theo Davies, DTM, who presided with his perfect, clear English accent.  Ng Kin Foong, DTM, - triple contest winner - taught us table topics techniques.  John Sih, expert on the English language, is always also entertaining.  Everybody else spoke enthusiastically and listened attentively.  Backgrounds were black white, blue, red. John Sih is seen silhouetted against the sunset. Chia Choon Kiat is framed in a V-shape of mountains, leaves and water. That was June 8 2020 on zoom, 7 pm for two hours 30 minutes. DTM Distinguished Toastmaster

I was emailed by Duolingo an invitation to an Esperanto meeting online. I had known about the Reading online Esperanto for a long time. https://events.duolingo.com/ https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/#!cities=24 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto Enable Ginger Cannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connection or reload the browser Disable in this text field Rephrase Rephrase current sentence Edit in Ginger ×

Rhetoric - Sometimes 'it's all Greek to me' as the saying goes. Arun Sharma will be doing two sessions on rhetorical devices for BHA on June 17th and Jun 24th. If you want to check up on rhetorical devices you will find long lists in two places in Wikipedia. I have read them through several times, but struggle remembering the Greek terms and examples in old fashioned language. A couple of tips: Alliteration - repetition of the initial letters, mostly consonants. For example, Big Brother. The alliteration is the letter b. Assonance, repeated sounds, usually in the middle, usually vowels.A goose and a moose. Repeated sound oose. But that is also rhyme. Here's one which isn't: Carrots and parroting. The end ing is in only one of the words. But the sound ot is in both.  Walking and talked - different first letters, different ends to the words, but al sound in the middle of both. If you want something easier to understand come along and hear from Arun at BHA. ...

Ng Kin Foong trains on table topics. He won all three speech contests in Singapore in 2020, the international sppech, humorous speech and table topics (impromptu speaking).

Exercise and Energy Pallavi is a member of Singapore Online International toastmasters and runs workshops training trainers. From her I learned: 1 Interrupt your training and encourage the seated audience to do exercises to energise.

You should look in the lens of your laptop. How to stop looking down to the right of your laptop to read your notes for your speech. Draw a hole in the middle of your notepaper for the lens. make sure you can fix this on the inside of the laptop lid. Then write your speech notes around the hole. Stick the note page on the inside of the lid and read the notes with your eyes on the lens. Agora is a speakers' group in several countries. Their aim is to improve the world by teaching people public speaking so they can spread ideas about charity and other ideas to benefit individuals and communities. The policy of Gea's group is to teach you to sell yourself for example as a coach, or sell your idea. Do you want more tips at the ends of the meeting from Gea who runs Agora in Singapore?

The last two meetings of the Toastmasters year. The highlight is Hyder Taufik on 'How to be a charismatic speaker'. A Chinese speaker, Mike, does not understand what he hears as 'chrismatic' and thinks it means Christmas. Christmas in June. Yes, they have Christmas in summer down in Australia. But at BHA we had how to be a charismatic speaker.

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/#!cities=24 I struggled with this. I wanted to join a meeting of the Esperanto speakers in Reading, UK. They meet at 10 am UK time which is now British summer time which is UTC (universal time - used to be Greenich mean time), and that means in summer Singapore 6 pm, doesn't it? https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/#!cities=24 https://utilities.clickmeeting.com/converter/215187342 Enable Ginger Cannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connection or reload the browser Disable in this text field Rephrase Rephrase current sentence Edit in Ginger ×