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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."
- 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."
- 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?"
- 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..."
- 4.
Read Out Loud:
"Tolitha's Coffin" - "Tolitha
decides to purchase her own coffin"
- 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.."
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-
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
2003 "Dolour takes a Bath"
- "Bathing in the Darcy household was fraught with
both danger and adventure."
-
"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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