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Latest Addition: October 2006

"When You are Three"
"Yuk! You don't drink out of plugs!"

Index

Communication and Leadership Program
Storytelling
Speaking to Inform
Speaking to Entertain
Specialty Speeches
Humorous Speeches
Interpretive Reading
Educationals


1. The Icebreaker:
"Specially Harvey"
Introducing me......and my friend.

2. Be in Earnest : "Who Killed Kasseim?"
"Could it have been......his mother?"

3. Organise Your Speech : "I May Not be Perfect"
Someone will always catch us at a bad moment.

4. Show What You Mean: "Splashdown!"
"I hold on so tight, they'll probably have trouble unclenching my fists when they retrieve my body......"

5. Vocal Variety: "The Postmaster."
"He was short and squat like a letterbox, with a pugnacious jaw......"

6. Work with Words: "I'm Speechless!"
"How long can I go on masquerading as a Toastmaster?"

7. Apply Your Skills: "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
"He lurks in shopping centres, bank queues and busy streets......"

8. Make it Persuasive: "Change the Future"
"..Changing lives - changing futures......"

9. Speak with Knowledge: "Seek to Understand"
"Conversation is a competitive exercise......"

10. Inspire Your Audience: "Freedom to Choose"
"No one can take this away from you."


Advanced Manual Speeches

Storytelling

1. The Folk Tale:
"Big Claus and Little Claus"
"What have you got in the sack?" asked the farmer.

2. Let's get Personal:"Nice to See the Parents Participating"
"I wouldn't have come if he had told me..."

3. The Moral of the Story:"Beware of Falling Brickbats"
"I have never forgotten my humiliation..."

4. The Touching Story:"The Man of the House"
"How do you explain death to a three-year-old?"

5. Bringing History to Life: "Beware the Ides of March"
"Don't tell me that when they burned Caesar, they raised you!"

5.(Extra) Bringing History to Life: "The Man Who Washed His Hands"
"Pilate's position as Governor hung in the balance."


Speaking to Inform

1. The Speech to Inform:
"20 Years with World Vision"
"Me! Start a club? No way!"

2. Resources for Informing: "Is it a Myth?"
"Are donors being conned by children's charities?"

3. The Demonstration Talk: "How to Make a Chicken Squawk"
A simple toy to entertain your children or grandchildren

4. A Fact-finding Report: "Rich Man, Poor Man"
A debt-free start to the Millennium.

4.(Extra) A Fact-finding Report: "What Makes a Good Conversation?"
"That was a really good conversation!"

5. The Abstract Concept: "When All Your Christmases Come at Once"
"Why, as we grow older, do the years rush by and blur together?"


The Entertaining Speaker

1. The Entertaining Speech:
"How do you Tell the Difference between an Elephant and a Letterbox?"
"It bothered me whenever my mother sent me to post a letter...."

2. Resources for Entertainment: "WYZIWYG"

"About Chastity and Egbert and why I need to check the water level in my car radiator..."

3. Make Them Laugh: "The Phantom Motorbike Rider"

"This evil monster who rides through the night in search of victims"

4. A Dramatic Talk: "An Alarming Experience"

"Horror! The House is on Fire!"

5. Speaking After Dinner: "Remembering 30 Years"

"We might have had a few hiccups to begin with..."


Specialty Speeches

4. Read Out Loud:
"Tolitha's Coffin"
"Tolitha decides to purchase her own coffin"


Humorous Speech Competition

1. Speech Competition 1996:
"Get Me to the Church on Time"
"Everyone wants to be remembered for something..."

2. Speech Competition 1997: "How do you Tell the Difference between an Elephant and a Letterbox?"

"It bothered me whenever my mother sent me to post a letter...."

3. Speech Competition 1998: "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?"

"Dinner at our place was always a chaotic affair..."

4. Speech Competition 2000: "Every Cat in the Twilight's Grey"

"You'd better see about getting him fixed, my uncle said.."


5. Speech Competition 2001: "Snip, snip!"

"It all began when he married his childhoodhood sweetheart, Kitty Litter.."

6. Speech Competition 2004: "Don't Look at the Dog"

"Whatever you do, don't look at the dog!"

7. Speech Competition 2006: "When You are Three"

"Yuk! You don't drink out of plugs!"


Interpretive Reading Competition

Interpretive Reading Competition 2003 "Dolour takes a Bath"
"Bathing in the Darcy household was fraught with both danger and adventure."


Educational

"Delivery and Platform Techniques "The main thing is..."

The Better Speaker Series

"Preparation and Practice" "Fail to prepare, prepare to fail"
This one didn't work out. I'll tell you why in my Newsletter


"Selecting a Topic" "The speech only YOU can give"

The Successful Club Series

Mentoring "Big Brother - or Sister"

Evaluation "Digging for Diamonds"

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