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What’s a Good Table Topic?


2009
03.29

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At a higher of  Toastmasters Table Topics Competition,  the kind of topics should be challenging enough for the contestants.  To ask them for a factual response to solve a world problem, or to share a story – that to me is not challenge.

The challenging topics are those that are open to a wider interpretation. The most popular kinds of topics are quotations.

My current favourite  is my club’s area contest. My club’s area table topics question was: “Mine is better than yours”

Give it a try now.

Ready…get set…go!

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Table Topics Masters – Use Photos


2009
03.25

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When you buy my ebook “Table Topics Secrets Revealed”, you will get a bonus ebook on more than 50 ways to conduct a table topics session.

One interesting way is to use photos.  The speaker selects a photograph and tell a story about it, or just about anything related to the photos.

There’s a variety of subjects you can use.

It can relate to favourites things like games, food and love.

You can use nostagic pictures like scenery, old building and roads, or famous people in local history.

Using photos open up to a wider interpretation because every speakers see the same picture in a different way.

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Table Topics Theme for Feb


2009
03.25

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February is Valentine month.  You can be sure that the favourite theme in Feb is Valentine. Sure enough, when I brought my students to visit a toastmasters club, the theme of the table topics session is LOVE.  As I predicted correctly,  one of the questions is a quotation “Love is Blind”

If I were to respond to this question, I will use a before and after technique. Before marriage, I was blinded by love that I cannot see the flaws of the woman I love.  Love was blind. She was perfect in my eyes. She can do no wrong.

But after marriage my eyes were open and I can see her flaws at close range.  But I choose to close my eyes to her fault. I choose to be blind cos of Love.

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