Current Affairs is a favourite genre. The favourite Table Topics of the month is about the global financial crisis.
One of the questions asked is: How does the current financial crisis affect you?
This year, one of the questions in a district contest is a very simple and straightforward one:
“The credit crisis is going to cause all of us to have to tighten our belts. What advice do you have for our audience members here today?”
This is an easier question that the one at the Toastmasters District 73 Table Topics Final 2007.
The question was: “Do you have to obey all the public speaking rules?”
Take a look at the performance of the District champion. He has a very dramatic start. The audience laughed. He took a minority view point. The trick question is in the word ‘all’. At one point, he walked to the lectern to read the topic again. He paused well to buy some time to recollect his thoughts. He ended by restating his point that one should break the rules because it is more fun.
For Table Topics contests at the District level, the topics are usually abstract such as quotations, or controversial and humourous ones such as the above.
