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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.

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.

作业（八）助势添威（五到七分钟）
在整理父亲的衣柜时，无意中看到了已故母亲的旧毛衣。我仿佛走入了时光隧道，回到母亲去世那天，强烈感受到父亲当时的悲痛。忙碌的生活常让我们忽略了身边挚爱的亲人和朋友。我们是否要等到失去那份爱，才后悔莫及？听完我的作业后，希望大家都能重燃那份埋藏在心里，被遗忘了的爱苗。

宣南，2006年1月23日

Project 8 “Get Comfortable with Visual Aids” (5 to 7 mins) requires the speaker to:

- select visual aids that are appropriate for his message and the audience.
- use visual aids correctly with ease and confidence.

“Do we take our loved ones for granted? Have we forgotten about these special people in our lives amidst our busy work schedules and materialistic pursuit? This speech may help you rediscover your long-lost love and rekindle the flame.” ~ 8 Dec 2005