Shanghai Yu-Life Toastmasters Club Meetings #452

This is the last meeting in July. When we plan the seats, I estimate 10 would be enough. However, we have doubled that number. Many old friends are coming back.

Our SAA@Joker comes just in time. He leads the audience using a new 9x9 game. People laughs and our meeting is ready.

Our President@Henry calmly Ming's out the history and value of Toastmasters and Yu-Life club. He becomes confident in delivering the business part.

Our TMD@Peter introduces the agenda humorously with a "toastmasters enrich life". I like it.

TTM @Yolanda debuts her first time host in the Table Topics session. She takes the stage very confidently with big smile and diverse questions. she can always put the speakers in the focus. This is what we all want to learn from Yolanda: this is an impromptu speech for the guests, yet this is not a prepared speech for the Table Topics master.

Q1: How to learn more from a book?

S1: Carol - beatiful voice, clear pronounciation, a personal story as the main content, really brave to be first speaker; need keep eye contact with the audience instead of looking for something on the ground.

Q2: How to cultivate the habit of reading?

S2: Calin - stable eye contact with the audience, well-structuted speech with an open, body and end; would be better to have more vocal variety.

Q3: A 1000 miles trip, or 10000 books, which is better for you?

S3: David - confidently loud speaker, very fluent English, many information in the 2 minutes talk; need focus on delivering one main message.

Q4: Which books influence your life?

S4: Maggie - wonderful English sound, easy-going logic, natural body language; maybe should craft some engaging content.

Q5: Which books can be read, and which cannot?

S5: Yasmine - a standard Table Topics speech, true story, real emotion, and clear gesture to deliver the main message; use the stage more.

Q6: What's your suggestion for a bookworm?

S6: Sophia - surprisingly a good answer to a hard question, self introduction, clear mind in delivering a full topic, repeat the main message several times; may add some humor in the story.

Q7: What's your favorite author?

S7: Mia - direct answer and logic reasoning, fluent English and various body languages; better to keep eye contact with the audience instead of blinking.

Q8: What's your favorite book?

S8: Bell - emotional speech with true love of the books, many gestures in empansize the topic, clear voice; should match emotion with the content in stead of always laughing.

Q9: How to select a suitable book?

S9: Evans - clever answer to the question, take easy steps to talk, and call for actions with power; stage movement is not dancing, slower down could be better.

This time we are lucky to have our division triple champion of speech contest @Steven Liu to give us a sharing on delivery of speech.

Steven has good control of the stage using his easy-going humorous style. He handles the unexpected device problem very well - he writes on the white board with clear note. I believe this is much better than the presentation material because he catches the focus of the audience not the screen.

Besides the numerous shining points of Steven's delivery example, I like the final summary very much:

To inspire people, inspire yourself first.

If only can we show ourselves the passion, could we show others the meaning of passion.

Our GE@Henry leads the diligent evaluation team:

Timer@James: Still very shy but willing to do time control - ring the bell.

Ah-Counter@Bell: very mature on the stage, full rule introduction and complete summary in the report: names the king and queen with humor ang gives tips seriously.

Grammarian@Maggie: very familiar with this role, choose a phase as word of today, and smartly connects the audience with the reports of good usage and points out funny errors to help us improve.

IE@Calin: I am the only prepared speaker. Calin clearly understands the role of an IE. She not only teaches me what I have done well - interaction and delivery, but also she shows that the content and the meaning of the speech could be further improved to make the speech more powerful.

Our VPPR@Carol sponsors another very cute toy dog with a golden hair lace as the best Table Topics trophy. The winner is @Jasmine, who talks vividly a foreign travel experience in Korea.

Looking forward to our next meeting - the first meeting in August. Stay tuned.

Thanks to our photographer @Ms. Sang.

Thanks to our distinguished guests:

James@Timer

Jasmine

Maggie@Grammarian

David

Tom

Mia as an old friend

Emmy

Evans

Steven as Sharing master

Thank You! Until next Sunday.

Dear guests, if you want to become our club member, make sure you join our meeting and speak up. Our VPM@老獬 will more than delighted to let you know the process and benefit.

poster	agenda	Table Topics	Word of Today	guest photo	all photo	Best Meeting role	Best Table Topics Speaker	Best Prepared Speaker	Best Evaluator
Poster 452	Agenda 452	Books	Be present	guests	all	-	Yasmine	-	-