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I evaluated Song Lang’s Story Telling AP3 speech “Justice has a long jaw” at the July Chapter Meeting at Chao Chu Kang TMC. Surprisingly, I won the best evaluator award, together with the best table topic speaker award. This is the first time I got a double awards in one meeting. I was very very happy. It really comes as a surprise since I was taking it quite lightly for this evaluation. Unlike my previous evaluations which I usually skipped break to work hard on the evaluation. This time I only jotted down couple of observation points during Song Lang’s presentation and just gave an impromptu evaluation. I let the ideas flew out naturally during my evaluation. hmmm..it seems to work.

I took slightly over 7mins to deliver this speech. At least this time I did not exceed the given time limit of 7min 30sec. Overall I think I did ok for it. Not too nervous during the presentation…but still felt that the speech content is not too persuasive.

This speech is Project 10 “Inspire Your Audience” from Basic Communicator Manual. The objectives of this speech are:

• To inspire the audience by appealing to noble motives and challenging the audience to achieve a higher level of beliefs or achievement
• Appeal to the audience’s needs and emotions, using stories, anecdotes, and quotes to add drama
• Avoid using notes

The timing for the presentation is 8-10 mins.

This is my first inspiration speech. I have never given a speech to inspire people before. At first, the task looked daunting. But after the project, I was excited I finally did it and also completed my basic project manual.

This speech was presented at the Achiever Day. The evaluator was Stanley Chen.

I look forward to kick start my advanced project.

This speech is Project 9 “Get Comfortable with Visual Aids” from Basic Communicator Manual. The objectives of this speech are:

• Select visual aids that are appropriate for your message and the audience
• Use visual aids correctly with ease and confidence

The timing for the presentation is 5-7 mins.

In this speech, I used a inflatable globe as my visual aids. When I mentioned the flattening force, I would press the globe to flatten it a bit. The effect was not quite as good as I anticipated.

I didn’t really like this speech. I agreed with the evaluator that the Berlin Wall portion was redundant and did not add value to the speech. I also think my speech was not very engaging to the audience. I should have keeping the speech simpler and iterating the main contention that the World is Flat.

This speech was presented at the CCK TMC March Chapter Meeting. The evaluator was Mindy Ding.

This speech is Project 9 “Persuade with Power” from Basic Communicator Manual. The objectives of this speech are:

• Persuade listeners to adopt your viewpoint or ideas or take some action.
• Appeal to the audience interests.
• Use logic and emotion to support your position.
• Avoid using notes.

The timing for the presentation is 5-7 mins.

This speech project was given in conjunction with the speech contest. Stephen Tan is my silent evaluator.

This speech is Project 7 “Research Your Topic” from Basic Communicator Manual. The objectives of this speech are:

• Collect information about your topic from numerous sources.
• Carefully support your points and opinions with specific facts, examples and illustrations gathered through research.

The timing for the presentation is 5-7 mins.

One common feedback I got from evaluators was that my conclusion is too abrupt and there was a lack of call for action. I agreed very much. I hoped I could improve more on this area.

This speech was presented at the CCK TMC Dec Chapter Meeting.The evaluator for this speech is Pauline Lim.

This speech is Project 6 “Vocal Variety” from Basic Communicator Manual. The objectives of this speech are:

• Use voice volume, pitch, rate and quality to reflect adn add meaning and interest to your message.
• Use pauses to enhance your message.
• Use vocal variety smoothly and naturally.

The timing for the presentation is 5-7 mins.

I got the idea of the this speech topic after reading the book “Search” by… This book is about how Google founders started the revolutionary internet search engine and changed the world ever since. I was very inspired by the Google story, so I decided to speak on it. However, in hindsight, I felt this was not a good speech topic for vocal variety. This was more a “speaking to inform” type of speech. A good vocal variety topic should be one that stretch your vocal variety from fast pace to slow, loud to soft, high to low pitch.

This speech was presented at the Achiever Day and the evaluator was Ong Chuan Aik. This was the first time I spoke outside the club environment.