Our second meeting of 2016 was epic in so many ways. Taking charge as Toastmaster of the meeting was Terry, assisted by Nadia as timekeeper, Maria as grammarian with “epic” as word of the day; Thomas as harkmaster and Alex as vote counter.
The first of four speakers this evening was Andrew. Andrew icebreaker speech “role models” covered personalities he considers to be role models and he also other people including members of the London Victorians to be role models in their own way too. Our second speaker was also doing an icebreaker speech “The Accountant”. Andy’s speech covered his professional journey in accountancy and how in time he was able to tame the inner Gordon Gecko inside him. The third speaker this evening was Hannah “The Trump, the bad and the ugly”. Hannah met the objectives of her speech project “Organize Your Speech” perfectly by exploring the pros and cons of whether Donald Trump should be banned from entering the country or not. Our final speaker this evening was club president Florian who did a speech from the storytelling manual. Florian’s folk take was ‘Репка’ or the gigantic turnip in English. A story of how strength lies in unity!
The evaluators of our four speakers were Annabel, Nuala, Stephen and Fahad. All of them provided extensive feedback to our speakers, covering areas for improvements and strong points that should be developed further.
After the break, the table topics section was chaired by Sophia. Sophia came up with creative questions like “what makes you unique”, “what piece of advice would you give an infant” or “is it better to love or to be loved”. Audience members tackled these by doing a mini speech lasting one to two minutes. The table topics speakers received feedback on their performance by Isabelle as table topic evaluator.
Maria and Thomas came back on stage to give their reports as grammarian and harkmaster. Followed by Edward our general evaluator from London Olympians who provided feedback to everyone and praised London Victorians as a “youthful and energetic club!”
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