Bukit Panjang Bilingual Club - Angela's Winning Evaluation on Language
The best thing about the ribbon is that Bukit Panjang Bilingual Club writes their club name and the date on the back of the ribbon in gold pen.
2/3/2016.
The club meets on the first and third Wednesday every month. That reminds me which club I visited, how long ago I visited the club, and the day it meets.
When you win your first ribbon you can remember which club and where.
By the time you have been in Toastmasters for ten years you have several ribbons and want to be reminded what you said to whom and when.
Why did I win? Was it just because I was a new face? Or an English speaker at a bilingual club where many speak Mandarin as their first language and English as a second language? That could have helped.
But it's worthwhile for me and others to remember the advice I gave.
I was evaluating a speaker who had reached the project on Vocal Variety. Word of the day was extol.
I said:
I must extol the speaker for her excellent vocal variety as well as wonderful gestures and research. Her speech, Water is Precious covered three aspects of her subject. We started with why we need water, then the impact of rivers in three different countries, finally what we can do to conserve water. She used great gestures to hold our attention and count off numbers.
Now let's consider how the subject fitted the manual project vocal variety. When you do a speech, you can approach it either of two ways. You can write a speech on a subject you like, then try to fulfil the objectives of the project, vocal variety.
Or you can pick a subject which enables you to practise vocal variety. I've completed this manual twice. The first time I contrasted different languages. You might contrast your language and another, such as Singlish and English. Or Indian English and English. (Or American English and British English).
The second time I used family conversation to contrast different ways of speaking: a (loud deep-voiced) angry father; a scolding, tutting mother; a quiet pleading, shy child.
The speaker fulfilled the project objectives of correct speech. If you ever evaluate a speech you'll find three columns which you tick to say the speaker did well, average, or could improve. I ticked did well for all the categories, including sufficient volume and use of pauses.
I noted only two words which could be pronounced differently. One was the word tibetan. The speaker swallowed the middle syllable, pronouncing it as tibb(y)-tan. It's an extension of a word emphasising the second syllable ti BET. So the word becomes ti-BET-an.
Angela Lansbury, B A Hons, CL, ACG, English teacher and author.
2/3/2016.
The club meets on the first and third Wednesday every month. That reminds me which club I visited, how long ago I visited the club, and the day it meets.
When you win your first ribbon you can remember which club and where.
By the time you have been in Toastmasters for ten years you have several ribbons and want to be reminded what you said to whom and when.
Why did I win? Was it just because I was a new face? Or an English speaker at a bilingual club where many speak Mandarin as their first language and English as a second language? That could have helped.
But it's worthwhile for me and others to remember the advice I gave.
I was evaluating a speaker who had reached the project on Vocal Variety. Word of the day was extol.
I said:
I must extol the speaker for her excellent vocal variety as well as wonderful gestures and research. Her speech, Water is Precious covered three aspects of her subject. We started with why we need water, then the impact of rivers in three different countries, finally what we can do to conserve water. She used great gestures to hold our attention and count off numbers.
Now let's consider how the subject fitted the manual project vocal variety. When you do a speech, you can approach it either of two ways. You can write a speech on a subject you like, then try to fulfil the objectives of the project, vocal variety.
Or you can pick a subject which enables you to practise vocal variety. I've completed this manual twice. The first time I contrasted different languages. You might contrast your language and another, such as Singlish and English. Or Indian English and English. (Or American English and British English).
The second time I used family conversation to contrast different ways of speaking: a (loud deep-voiced) angry father; a scolding, tutting mother; a quiet pleading, shy child.
The speaker fulfilled the project objectives of correct speech. If you ever evaluate a speech you'll find three columns which you tick to say the speaker did well, average, or could improve. I ticked did well for all the categories, including sufficient volume and use of pauses.
I noted only two words which could be pronounced differently. One was the word tibetan. The speaker swallowed the middle syllable, pronouncing it as tibb(y)-tan. It's an extension of a word emphasising the second syllable ti BET. So the word becomes ti-BET-an.
Angela Lansbury, B A Hons, CL, ACG, English teacher and author.
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