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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Life is Like a Box of Chocolate


My very first table topics master role at my home club. The chocolate idea was a success as the words are simple and easy to related to any incidents in life. This idea is also appropriate for a segment that allows for a large number of speakers. We ended up having closed to 10. 


Forrest Gump, in the movie of the same name said "Life’s like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

Fellow toastmasters and guests, we have come to tonight’s table topics’ segment. I am your table topics master for tonight, and I bring to you a time of chocolaty fun. The table topics segment is open to members and especially guests for a chance of impromptu speech. This helps us to listen, analysis and think on our feet. Good training in a fun way. We are looking for about 5 to 6 speakers to participate in this segment.

Each speaker will be given a topic to speak for 2 mins. At the end of 1 min there will be the green card, 1.5 min the orange card and after 2 min the red card. At 2:30 mins there will be a bell. 

Now… without further ado, let’s start. So what is the topic for tonight? As I promised, it will be chocolaty. I have with me a box of chocolate and underneath each of the pieces is a word that describe the taste and experience of eating chocolate. The topic for the speaker tonight is to share a life experience/story/incident/event base on the meaning of this word. The speaker will come up and pick a chocolate to review the secret word underneath it. The time will start when the speaker is ready to speak.

And at the end of the speech, you can have the chocolate!

So, who shall go first?



3 comments:

  1. Thank you so much. It really helped me in preparing table topics for my club meet

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  2. Great idea and it passes the test of time. Our meeting theme is "Chocolate" because 1/10/17 is National Bittersweet Chocolate Day. I'm looking forward to using your TTs at our Thames River Toastmasters meeting at noon tomorrow.

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    1. Good to know that this has been useful for your preparation. Hope your table topic segment is a success!

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