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Meeting Minutes of May 5, 2008 |
| Meeting Overview | | Meeting Of: | Monday, May 5th, 2008 | | Start Time: | 19:00 | End Time: | 21:15 | | Members Attending: | 15 | Total Membership: | | | Quorum Met? | | Guests Attending: | 3 | | Theme: | Even | | Word of Day: | Glamorous |
| Club Officials | | President: | Robin Adams | VP Education: | David Oliver | | VP Membership: | Tiffany Liu | VP Public Relations: | Charles Cao | | Secretary: | Carol Wei | Sergeant-at-Arms: | Addy Ho | | Treasurer: | Malina Ma | | |
| Meeting Officials | | Toastmaster: | Addy Ho | General Evaluator: | Malina Ma | | Table Topics Mstr: | Lydia Zhang | Table Topics Eval: | Felicia Dan Fang | | Grammarian: | Carol Wei | Greeter: | Amy (Guest) | | Timer: | Nicolas Daguenet | Ah Counter: | Kai Li Dawson | | Educational Instr.: | | | |
| Table Topics | | Topic: | Choose a topic (given by the masters) and talk experience | | Contents (include topic and participant): | 1. Addy Ho – Heating 2. Javier – Swimming 3. Tiffany – Security 4. Charles – House cleaning 5. Huub – Security 6. Amy – Laundry 7. Yann – Parking |
| Prepared Speech #1 | | Speaker: | David Oliver | Evaluator: | Charles Cao | | Speech No. & Type: | No.4 – How To Say It | | Speech Title: | Sunny Hainan - Hot, humidity, sunny island - Biking is a great way to travel - Interesting people - Wuzhishan in the island | | Speech Evaluation: | - Your body language was not good - It’s good to insert some joke, but don’t laugh by yourself Conclusion: nice job |
| Prepared Speech #2 | | Speaker: | Tiffany Liu | Evaluator: | Selina Shi | | Speech No. & Type: | No.6 – Vocal Variety | | Speech Title: | Your Voice Counts! - Three points: Volume, speed and tone. | | Speech Evaluation: | - You stood a little near to the audience - You gave a conclusion of the speech - In the beginning, use a question to get more attraction |
| Prepared Speech #3 | | Speaker: | Huub Schrader | Evaluator: | Betty | | Speech No. & Type: | No.8 – Get Comfortable With Visual Aids | | Speech Title: | How we fill up our life - A question on the beginning: Why are we so busy? A lot of work? - The goals and priority - Use a jar to illustrate: put tomatoes, seeds of watermelon, rice and beer in order - Conclusion: the jar represents our life. | | Speech Evaluation: | About the presentation - You did a wonderful job for the visual aids’ one - The beer was not right part - You used a quite clear visual aids About the content - Quite good opening to draw attention - The logic was quite clear - Too much hand gestures, distracted the audience. |
| Prepared Speech #4 | | Speaker: | Robin Adams | Evaluator: | Yann | | Speech No. & Type: | Adv 9.4 – Addressing the Opposition | | Speech Title: | | On Board to Shanghai | | Speech Evaluation: | - Very good topic, controversial - I like your arguments - I agree with your idea, but it’s not quite convincing - The word “stupid” is not suitable in the speech - Some sentences like “Don’t believe people …” divided people. - Better to be more positive, to create emotions. |
| Awards | | Best Table Topics: | Huub Schrader | | Best Speaker: | Huub Schrader | | Best Evaluator: | Yann |
| Announcements | 1. Huub finished his half CC manual. Congratulations! 2. Next Monday will have a change on the schedule of the meeting: - Prepared speech session will go first, and will be recorded. - During the table topic session, the prepared speakers will go out of the room to review their speeches. Then evaluate themselves. |
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