Sunday, November 04, 2018
How To Use Props in Table Topics
Why should you listen to me? What are my credentials?
My Qualifications
I am an ACG, which means I have delivered at least 40 speeches.
I am an ALB, Advanced Leader Bronze, which includes mentoring others, evaluating and doing many roles.
My Experience
In Singapore I go to a meeting every day except Sunday, an average of 7 meetings a week, because I often attend two on Saturday or one midweek and occasionally a meeting Saturday or Sunday night.
Most meetings include three prepared speeches. (When the speaker is insufficiently prepared, you are getting an impromptu speech!)
My ribbons
I have won numerous ribbons. I have more than 50 in frames in London. In Singapore I have several for table topics and others for evaluating, which is itself a mini-speech, unprepared.
My Clubs
I belong to two Toastmasters club in London, England, Harrovians and HOD. In Singapore I belong to Braddell Heights Advanced and Tampines Changkat Advanced.
The person who introduced me to Toastmasters was Indra Sikdar who I met at Harrow Writers Circle. He took me to Harrovian Toastmasters Club. He was my mentor. When I did my Icebreaker, he told me to use props.
Hats and Books
I had a cowgirl hat for my time in the USA, a coolie hat for my time in Asia, and my book Wedding Speeches and Toasts about my writing career.
The Cheque Prop
Mike described a cheque for money he was paid. He was advised to use a prop. The cheque. Second time he gave the speech, he showed a cheque he was paid. Too small. You don't expect me to create an outside cheuqe like a poster. Yes. He did it, a huge cheque. Very effective. He won at next level.
The Michelin Man prop
Darren Tay and the underpants
International Winner 2017 (?)
The Coffee Cup
Gideon gave a speech about coffee. Where was the coffee cup? Are coffee cups too small to see. Then print one. Easy to find one, In any magazine advertisement. No printer. Cut one of the outside of a pack of coffee.
The Flower
My friend drove to collect me. I thought, I don't have a prop. My garden was full of daffodils. Just a minute I said. We're late.
I'm not going back insdie. Just picking a flower.
Wahat
st that for, to decorate the venue.
Er - yes.
When I got there we did not have a vase. I put the flower in my pocket.
The topic was, In spring a young man's fancy turns to love, what does spring men to you.
I pulled out my flower. Yellow daffodils. As Wordsworth said,
I wandered lonely as a cloud ...
Afterwards I thought everybody must have said the same thing, None of them did.
And I was the only one with a prop. My friend asked me, 'How did you happen to have a prop in your pocket?'
The Manual As A Book
I wanted a book. I asked somebody if they had a book or a notebook. No, only the toastmasters Manual they said.
'May I borrow it?
My topic was:
What book would you take with you to read on a desert island?.\
The TM manual! Never mind how long the rescuers took. I would have time to practise all my speeches. And when they rescued me I could give a thank you speech.
Topic: Tell Children To Take Precautions Without The Words Sex or Naming Any Body Part
John Cyriac was the winner. He said: Imagine you had just bought a new car or motorbike. You would want to protect it, wouldn't you. You would cover it up with a plastic cover to be sure it didn't get damaged. That's what you should do with your own precious body. Look after it. Protect it.
Author
Angela Lansbury ACG ALB
My Qualifications
I am an ACG, which means I have delivered at least 40 speeches.
I am an ALB, Advanced Leader Bronze, which includes mentoring others, evaluating and doing many roles.
My Experience
In Singapore I go to a meeting every day except Sunday, an average of 7 meetings a week, because I often attend two on Saturday or one midweek and occasionally a meeting Saturday or Sunday night.
Most meetings include three prepared speeches. (When the speaker is insufficiently prepared, you are getting an impromptu speech!)
My ribbons
I have won numerous ribbons. I have more than 50 in frames in London. In Singapore I have several for table topics and others for evaluating, which is itself a mini-speech, unprepared.
My Clubs
I belong to two Toastmasters club in London, England, Harrovians and HOD. In Singapore I belong to Braddell Heights Advanced and Tampines Changkat Advanced.
The person who introduced me to Toastmasters was Indra Sikdar who I met at Harrow Writers Circle. He took me to Harrovian Toastmasters Club. He was my mentor. When I did my Icebreaker, he told me to use props.
Hats and Books
I had a cowgirl hat for my time in the USA, a coolie hat for my time in Asia, and my book Wedding Speeches and Toasts about my writing career.
The Cheque Prop
Mike described a cheque for money he was paid. He was advised to use a prop. The cheque. Second time he gave the speech, he showed a cheque he was paid. Too small. You don't expect me to create an outside cheuqe like a poster. Yes. He did it, a huge cheque. Very effective. He won at next level.
The Michelin Man prop
Darren Tay and the underpants
International Winner 2017 (?)
The Coffee Cup
Gideon gave a speech about coffee. Where was the coffee cup? Are coffee cups too small to see. Then print one. Easy to find one, In any magazine advertisement. No printer. Cut one of the outside of a pack of coffee.
The Flower
My friend drove to collect me. I thought, I don't have a prop. My garden was full of daffodils. Just a minute I said. We're late.
I'm not going back insdie. Just picking a flower.
Wahat
st that for, to decorate the venue.
Er - yes.
When I got there we did not have a vase. I put the flower in my pocket.
The topic was, In spring a young man's fancy turns to love, what does spring men to you.
I pulled out my flower. Yellow daffodils. As Wordsworth said,
I wandered lonely as a cloud ...
Afterwards I thought everybody must have said the same thing, None of them did.
And I was the only one with a prop. My friend asked me, 'How did you happen to have a prop in your pocket?'
The Manual As A Book
I wanted a book. I asked somebody if they had a book or a notebook. No, only the toastmasters Manual they said.
'May I borrow it?
My topic was:
What book would you take with you to read on a desert island?.\
The TM manual! Never mind how long the rescuers took. I would have time to practise all my speeches. And when they rescued me I could give a thank you speech.
Topic: Tell Children To Take Precautions Without The Words Sex or Naming Any Body Part
John Cyriac was the winner. He said: Imagine you had just bought a new car or motorbike. You would want to protect it, wouldn't you. You would cover it up with a plastic cover to be sure it didn't get damaged. That's what you should do with your own precious body. Look after it. Protect it.
Author
Angela Lansbury ACG ALB
Labels: ALB, Braddell Heights Advanced. Indra, frames, Harrovians, HOD Toastmasters, mentor, ribbons
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Finding a topic to suit your speciality and a speech requirement
If you meet the secretary of a non-toastmasters club looking for speakers they will ask what subject you speak about. Select your speciality, e.g. which could be sports and endurance. Then find a sports topic to fit the subject. eg
Storytelling, anything from Greek myths to Bruce Lee to the founder of the paralympics.
Information - For to inform; anything on sports, eg sports equipment, weight loss, health for office workers or later life retirees; insurance; sports clinics and sports injuries; exercise on planes.
Entertaining/ and sports: films about sports; dramatic rescues; ski feats; paragliding; bungee jumping; ice (skating) dancing; sports romances - your favourite character or that of your audience, near misses in endurance sports.
Failing all else, google all the subjects and people related to your area of expertise (your work, family, hobbies or interests - or even what you cannot do).
Find some quotations on sport. Write a speech about one of these quotations. Start by doing it as a timed table topic. On Skype to your mentor. Or alone just record it or make notes afterwards and expand this into a speech.
You should get a mentor from your club to talk through possible subjects on the phone.
Angela Lansbury
Member of HOD and Harrovians clubs in London.
Former President of Harrovians.
ACG. CL.
Author of Quick Quotations.
Blogs on Angela Lansbury speeches.
Storytelling, anything from Greek myths to Bruce Lee to the founder of the paralympics.
Information - For to inform; anything on sports, eg sports equipment, weight loss, health for office workers or later life retirees; insurance; sports clinics and sports injuries; exercise on planes.
Entertaining/ and sports: films about sports; dramatic rescues; ski feats; paragliding; bungee jumping; ice (skating) dancing; sports romances - your favourite character or that of your audience, near misses in endurance sports.
Failing all else, google all the subjects and people related to your area of expertise (your work, family, hobbies or interests - or even what you cannot do).
Find some quotations on sport. Write a speech about one of these quotations. Start by doing it as a timed table topic. On Skype to your mentor. Or alone just record it or make notes afterwards and expand this into a speech.
You should get a mentor from your club to talk through possible subjects on the phone.
Angela Lansbury
Member of HOD and Harrovians clubs in London.
Former President of Harrovians.
ACG. CL.
Author of Quick Quotations.
Blogs on Angela Lansbury speeches.
Labels: entertaining speech, informative speech, mentor, sports, subject
