Aurora Colorado George Sutton Toastmasters Club
Improve Your Speaking, Communicating, and Leadership Skills and Have Fun Too!
On August 22, the George Sutton Toastmasters club will be conducting its club Evaluation and Tall Tales competition. Since we usually have the Evaluation and “Humorous Speech” contest this time of year, I’d like to provide an introduction to what a Tall Tales contest is and describe a basic outline of what makes a “good” tall tales speech, fit for winning a Toastmasters competition. Then I’ll provide one of the best examples I found on YouTube for you to analyze and emulate in your own speech preparation.
Why Do We Have a Tall Tales Toastmasters Contest?
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From guest blogger, and George Sutton Toastmasters member,
Diane Burridge
Toastmasters is a great way to keep your mind active and have
fun at the same time.
In Toastmasters you will:
- Interact with people of all ages.
- Laugh.
- Make new friends.
- Listen to and provide feedback on short speeches covering a wide variety of topics.
- Give short speeches on topics of interest to you. These can be from your life experiences or can be on subjects that you want to research to gain new knowledge.
- If you choose to, you can assume leadership responsibilities.
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