Table Topics Master Joyce Hu CC CL will warm up our speaking skills by challenging us to give impromptu speeches.

Remember the grammarian report that kept the audience laughing throughout it?  Larry Schuster will be training at the District 85 Annual Conference in May.  We’re honored that he’ll give CAT a preview of this workshop!

Learn how to use humor and exaggeration to correct and improve grammar problems in your club. In this workshop, you will find that a grammarian’s report no longer needs to be an unmemorable list of grammar and word usage errors. Using humor, Larry will show how to make routine grammar and word usage problems come alive in a way you will not forget.  Check out his very new Shanghai Grammar Blog.

We’ll have speeches from Aky, KC and guest Fei Hong from the Leadership club.

Our newest member Carmel Valencia CC CL will share her thoughts on our meeting during her GE report.  IEs include Susan Zhou DTM, Carlo Wolff ACB ALB, and Bill Wang ACB.

Don’t miss this meeting!

Throughout the world, metaphors are powerful tools for conveying meaning and moving audiences. How well are you using metaphors now? In this 20 minute session we will learn from NLP Trainer and experienced speaker Daniel Smith how we can make metaphors work for us in our speaking.

Also starring this week we have speeches from:

Susan Zhou DTM delivering her C4, evaluated by Jenny Ni CC CL
KC Loh delivering her A7, evaluated by Aky CC
Carlo Wolff ACB ALB delivering his A16, evaluated by Joyce Hu CC CL

Table Topics will be led by Minnie Li and our General Evaluator will be Andrew Wong

The winners and representatives to Area F61 speech contest on April 11 are:

• International Speech Contest: Carlo Wolff (1st), Jenny Ni (2nd)
• Table Topic Speech Contest: Carlo Wolff (1st), Joyce Hu (2nd)
• Mandarin Showcase: Joyce Hu

International Speech Contest: Jenny Ni, Carlo Wolff

Table Topic Speech Contest: Jenny Ni, Carlo Wolff, Spike Gu, Minnie Li, Joyce Hu

Mandarin Showcase: Joyce Hu

Contest Chair: Susan Zhou

Chief Judge: Beate Richter

TME: Aky (Oemer Akyazici) CC

Timer: Minnie Li CC

Table Topics Master: Spike Gu ACB CL

Speeches

Jenny Ni CC Fall in Love With Yourself
Manual: Humorously Speaking | Project: keep them laughing (A6)
Objective 1: Prepare a speech that opens with a self-deprecating joke;
Objective 2: String together two or three related jokes in the speech body;
Objective 3: Close the speech with a humorous story.

KC Loh CC The Secret
Manual: Speaking to Inform | Project: The Abstract Concept (A6)
Objective 1: Research and organize the thought of experts on an abstract concept, theory, historical force, or social/political issue;
Objective 2: Present the ideas in a clear and interesting manner.

Andrew Wang ACB Smoking Should Not Be Allowed in Any Restaurant
Manual: Persuasive Speaking | Project: Addressing the Opposition (A19)
Objective 1: Prepare a talk on a controversial subject that persuades an audience to accept or at least consider your viewpoint;
Objective 2: Construct the speech to appeal to the audience’s logic and emotions.

And we will enjoy a senior evaluations team led by President Carlo Wolff ACB ALB as General Evaluator, and supported by Joyce Hu CC CL, Bill Wang ACB and Yingdan Liu DTM.

Thursday night, 25 February, from 7pm.

Hope you can make it!

Summiting Session – Susan Zhou, DTM on Passion

SUPER Table Topics will be held again! Listen to Minnie from Novartis 1st give a 5 to 7 minute speech, speaking off the cuff. Super TT evaluator is Jenny Ni, CC/CL.

Prepared Speakers:
Joyce Hu, CC/CL                     Evaluator: Andrew Wong, ACB 
Bill Wang, ACB                          Evaluator: Jenny Ni, CC/CL  
Carlo Wolff:  ACB & ALB       Evaluator: Susan Zhou, DTM

Summiting Session – Carlo Wolff ACB ALB on Non-Verbal Communication

SUPER Table Topics will be held again! Listen to these members give a 5 to 7 minute speech, speaking off the cuff. Super TT speakers are Bill Wang ACB and Joyce Hu CC & CL. Super TT evaluator is KC Loh CTM.

Prepared Speakers:
– Andrew Yuk Ho Wong ACB
– Raf Verheyen CC
– Jack Guo CC & CL

Individual Evaluators:
– Aky (Oemer Akyazici) CC
– Jenny Ni CC CL

TME Susan Zhou, DTM, will lead the meeting.  Jenny Ni, CC & CL, will facilitate a discussion on compassion.

Two of our speakers will be reaching a milestone in their Toastmasters journey.  Spike Gu, ACB & CL, will be giving his A20 speech and Emily Minor, CC & ALS, will be giving her A10 speech.  Joyce Hu, CC & CL, rounds out the prepared speakers.

GE Jack Guo, CC from IDEAL TMC, will give us the fresh perspective of a sister club member.  IEs include Carlo Wolff, ACB & ALB and Irene Zha, CC guest from Leadership TMC.

Guest Anna Zhou, from 5C+ TMC, is supporting CAT by timing our meeting.

Remember to email attend@ChinaAdvancedToastmasters.com if you’d like directions and a map to our venue!

The venue will be provided by Microsoft:

• Room 073, 10F, No. 2 Building, Grand Gateway, 3 Hongqiao Road. (港汇大厦2号楼10F.073 Seminar room.) You can go into the building from the gate at Hongqiao road.

CAT members will focus on our speciality – evaluation!  Please see below for the role takers from all three clubs.

TME – Spike Gu, ACB & CL

Summiting Session – Emily Minor, CC & ALS, on “Critical Left Brain/Right Brain Evaluations.”

Table Topics – Jenny Ni, CC & CL

Speakers:

• Carlo Wolff, ACB & ALB – The Emperor’s New Suit from the Storytelling manual
• Susan Zhou, DTM – Lead and Learn for Resolving Conflict from the Professional Speakers manual

We’ll have a guest General Evaluator, Gabor Holch, the president of Leadership TMC!  Rebecca Hong, DTM and District 85 Governor, and Joyce Hu, CC & CL, will be our individual evaluators.

We’ll be meeting at the Carpark, our super-secret underground lair.  Admission is just 30 RMB for members of other TM clubs, and 40 RMB for non-TM members.  We hope to see you there!

Leading the meeting will be TME Carlo Wolff, ACB & ALB, past president of Leadership and current president of CAT.

Susan Zhou, DTM will present the Summiting Session on “Resolving Club Conflicts.”
Native English speaker Emily Minor, CC & ALS, will be looking for excellent and improper word usage in the Grammarian role.
Individual Evaluators are Joyce Hu, CC & CL, and Jenny Ni, CC & CL, along with two members of Leadership.