BRADDELL HEIGHTS ADVANCED NEWSLETTER

 A speech about my holiday: Walking up a steep hill in Sentinel in Southern Spain You reach the are under overhanging rocks, by the side of the river. Cobblestoned streets and whitewashed houses under the overhanging rocks. Photos by the Sharot family. Setenil is in the area of Andalucia in the province of Cadiz. The caves under the rocks provided shelter from the sun in summer and from the cold in winter. Just add a front wall.  Its recent history dates back to Moorish times in the 15th century. The word bodega means market or warehouse or wine shop in Spanish. The word Setinel comes from seven times the Catholics tried to take back the city from the Moors until the last siege. Photos from Wikipedia. Bar la escueva Escueva means school  A few words of Spanish bar beautiful city Hello - hola no  please restaurant thank you wine vino where is yes si Practical Information How long should you spend there? An hour or an afternoon with time to walk up the two streets and ...

 Awarding ribbons or certificates makes the speech, evaluation or table topic into a contest. Planning the Contest It is really good to have the briefing a day early, so we can all update on timing and time zones.  Time to review the speech.  Less stress on the day when you cannot listen to the briefing because you are mentally rehearsing your speech.

 In Powerpoint you can slide photos onto your slides. However, this does not work in Blogger, not in Facebook. If you want your photos in Blogger you have to move them from your mobile phone's gallery onto your desktop. Then go into Facebook or blogger and lock on the photo symbol and upload from your desktop. Where are the photos? What are they named? Watch out that photos are not left with numbers, or two photo with the same name such as download don't overwrite each other. Rename at once with something short so you can find them fast. On Facebook you may have to scroll down a long way to find Add new post. If you cannot find it maybe you are not admin. I asked to be added to admin but was told it had already been done. Make it clear whether you want to be added to Facebook or Whatsapp if your club is on both. When you are invited to be a Facebook admin, where is the invitation? It might be in Facebook Messenger. It is not enough to be sent the invitation. Unlike Whatsapp whe...

 

  I suggest the committee practise. You need to activate the live transcription. You have to select something else to get the transcription added to the recording. Useful Website https://documentation.its.umich.edu/node/2062

  You can use free newsletter creation services.  For example, Mailchimp. They have a series of templates. On mailchimp Most seem to have a design for a large photo and one line of text on the cover. I prefer to have the text starting straight away below one photo, like a newspaper. Useful websites https://www.mailjet.com/newsletter-solution/ https://mailchimp.com/landers/newsletters/https://mailchimp.com/landers/newsletters/ About the Author Angela Lansbury is the Vice President Public Relations for Braddell Heights Advanced, plus another advanced club, Tampines Changkat Advanced.

  Nazrin Khairunan, film director. Acting for non actors was the topic of our workshop preview speaker. Writing a speech and acting it out are two aspects of successful speech writing. Acting A brilliant meeting at Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters (speakers' training) club, culminating in a preview of the workshop on acting for non-actors, by film director and polytechnic lecturer Nazrin Khairunan. President Yenny has booked him to do the workshop on Wednesday September 1st, training our keen speakers before the club's speech contest in October, when the top speakers will then go forward to the Area Contest. I asked, "How do you act (or re-enact) feeling suicidal, convincingly, without ending up feeling suicidal?" Nazrin laughed. He quoted Alec Guinness who said, 'Acting is pretending'. Yenny said, "I have seen a clip of the director telling an actor to cry, which he did, then shouting 'cut', and the actor stopped crying. And the director sh...