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The mission of a Toastmasters Club is to provide a mutually supportive and positive learning environment
in which every member has the opportunity to develop and practice communication and leadership skills,
which in turn foster self-confidence and personal growth.
Online Guide to Meeting Assignments
Read or Recite
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To provide you with
an opportunity to exercise vocal variety and body language in the
delivery of a piece written by someone else. Children's stories and
excerpts from famous speeches are examples of such material. |
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Choose a piece of
poetry or prose and decide whether your objective will be to read or
recite. |
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If you are going to
read from a book, make a photocopy with enlarged print. This will help
you follow the text more easily and enable you to look up and maintain
some level of eye contact. |
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As with all
assignments, prepare and rehearse to ensure correct timing. Readings
seem to be particularly prone to going over time. |
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meeting begins |
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Inform Chairman 1 of
your title, and how you would like him/her to introduce you. |
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What to do during your assignment |
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Keep
any introduction short, maximum of 15-20 seconds. |
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Allow yourself to
concentrate on your delivery: voice, pace, pausing, gestures.... The
whole idea is to relieve you of the burden of worrying about what to
say. |
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When you are
finished, hand back to Chairman 1. |
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That is the end of
your assignment. You will be evaluated by the General Evaluator |
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