The 2010 Toastmasters Area 53 Speech Contest will be held at our club!
Le concours 2010 de discours et d’improvisation du secteur 53 Toastmasters aura lieu à notre club!
WHERE / LIEU:
Club St. Lawrence Toastmasters
How to get there (EN) / Comment s’y rendre (FR)
DATE:
Tuesday, March 2nd 2010 / le mardi 2 mars 2010
TIME / HEURE:
6:30 p.m. / 18 h 30
Briefing: 5:45 p.m./ 17 h 45
Refreshments will be served. Un goûter sera servi.
COST / COÛT :
$10.00
CONTACT :
Hepta Deslandes
Area Governor
hepta@videotron.ca
Marie-Paule Gagnon
Présidente du Club St. Lawrence Toastmasters
mgagnon@kraft.com
Be part of a fantastic evening!
Participez à une soirée fantastique!
As Toastmasters, one of our goals is to continually improve our ability to effectively articulate our thoughts, especially when we are asked our opinion about something.
The ability to “think and speak on our feet” is a skill that comes not only from practice (an activity we do in our meetings, called “Table Topics”), but also from being generally aware of events around us so that we can speak intelligently on a current subject.
Therefore, what better current event to inform ourselves on than the US Credit Crisis?
(Click here if you want to see a larger version)
In the space of about ten minutes, you will have had the chance to get an extremely clear and straightforward understanding of how the Credit “fiasco” all came about. And should you ever be asked your opinion on this subject, you may hopefully find yourself in a better position to answer effectively.
Enjoy!
Merci d’avance à notre VP éducation Marie-Paule Gagnon, qui donnera un toast ce samedi soir lors des célébrations du 60e anniversaire de notre club. Elle nous expliquera alors ce qu’est le “Temple de la renommée”.
Voulez-vous le savoir aussi? Restez branchés (en fait, revenez nous voir très bientôt) lorsqu’on vous communiquera les explications dans un prochain billet.
Et pour nos membres, au plaisir de vous voir ce samedi soir à 18h!
In an earlier post, we mentioned one of our new members making his “Ice-breaker” speech.
If you’re asking yourself, “What exactly is an ice-breaker speech?”, it’s the first in a series of speeches that will help you gain valuable skills in public speaking.
Here is a page that resumes it quite well, from Andrew Dlugan’s site “Six Minutes: Public Speaking and Presentations Skills Blog”.
Enjoy the read!
(Thank you Andrew, and feel free to visit our club when you come to Montreal.)