本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛首先讲讲我学英语的故事，来加已六年，英语学了六年，现在英语说得还是坑坑巴巴，女儿才来加读高中一年半，各门功课90几，还进了AP班，女儿已经开始嘲笑老爸的英语了。多年来，我上LINK,上ESL,上教堂，听radio,看电视，在大街找人聊天，在办公室找人聊天；对我英语提高最大的是被称为邪教的耶和华见证人的教会，他们派一对夫妇到我家里上课，非常有礼貌，也没有什么极端教义，只是试图用圣经解释现代社会所发生的事，其实就是他们圣经有点不一样，其他都差不多，我却是学到了英语。下面再谈谈我和toastmaster的缘分，记得2009第一次参加toastmaster是在sheppard/midland的toastmaster club，大部分member是香港人，本人谦虚地当了几次guest，每次大部分没听懂香港英语，就不好意思继续了，第二次是2010年在Mississauga的TD BANK做consultant时,也试图提高自己的英语水平，参加了creekside的toastmaster club活动，也没有坚持下来，第三次是在我家附近的社区中心，交了钱，被批准了，还没收到资料，听了几次因为工作太忙又离开了；这回是第四次了，2012年6月，多年的consultant工作，我已经感觉到我的英语能力已经可以在toastmaster立足了，也遇到了一些好心人的辅导，士气大振，立下计划，要在一年内拿下CC了。总结了一下，为什么我一次又一次白白失去toastmaster训练英语的机会，交的那点钱非常值得，我的感觉是，自信心不够，不愿花时间，害羞，我把CC manual的内容贴在下面以供分享：
Competent Communication Manual
1. The Ice Breaker
For your first speech project, you will introduce yourself to your fellow club members and give them some information about your background, interests, and ambitions. Practice giving your speech to friends or family members, and strive to make eye contact with some of your audience. You may use notes during your speech if you wish. Read the entire project before preparing your talk.
Objectives:
 To begin speaking before an audience.
 To discover speaking skills you already have and skills that need some attention.
 To introduce yourself to your fellow club members.
Time:
4 - 6 minutes
2. Organize Your Speech
Good speech organization is essential if your audience is to understand your presentation. You must take the time to put your ideas together in an orderly manner. You can organize your speech in several different ways; choose the outline that best suits your topic. The opening should catch the audience’s attention, the body must support the idea you want to convey, and the conclusion should reinforce your ideas and be memorable. Transitions between thoughts should be smooth.
Objectives:
 Select an appropriate outline which allows listeners to easily follow and understand your speech.
 Make your message clear, with supporting material directly contributing to that message.
 Use appropriate transitions when moving from one idea to another.
 Create a strong opening and conclusion
Time:
5 - 7 minutes
3. Get to the Point
Every speech must have a general an a specific purpose. A general purpose is to inform, to persuade, to entertain, or to inspire. A specific purpose is what you want the audience to do after listening to your speech. Once you have established your general and specific purposes, you’ll find it easy to organize your speech. You’ll also have more confidence, which makes you more convincing, enthusiastic, and sincere. Of course, the better organized the speech is, the more likely it is to achieve your purpose.
Objectives:
 Organize the speech in a manner that best achieves those purposes.
 Ensure the beginning, body, and conclusion reinforce the purpose.
 Project sincerity and conviction and control any nervousness you may feel.
 Strive not to use notes.
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Time:
5 - 7 minutes
4. How to Say It
Words are powerful. They convey your message and influence the audience and its perception of you. Word choice and arrangement need just as much attention as speech organization and purpose. Select clear, accurate, descriptive and short words that best communicate your ideas and arrange them effectively and correctly. Every word should add value, meaning, and punch to the speech.
Objectives:
 Select the right words and sentence structure to communicate your ideas clearly, accurately and vividly.
 Use rhetorical devices to enhance and emphasize ideas.
 Eliminate jargon and unnecessary words. Use correct grammar.
Time:
5 - 7 minutes
5. Your Body Speaks
Body language is an important part of speaking because it enhances your message and gives you more credibility. It also helps release any nervousness you may feel. Stance, movement, gestures, facial expressions, and eye contact help communicate your message and achieve your speech’s purpose. Body language should be smooth, natural, and convey the same message that your listeners hear.
Objectives:
 Use stance, movement, gestures, facial expressions, and eye contact to express tour message and achieve your speech’s purpose.
 Make your body language smooth and natural.
 Focus on methods of delivery, but do not overlook speech content.
Time:
5 - 7 minutes
6. Vocal Variety
Your voice has a major effect on your audience. A lively, excited voice attracts and keeps listeners’ attention. A speaking voice should be pleasant, natural, forceful, expressive, and easily heard. Use volume, pitch, rate, and quality as well as appropriate pauses to reflect and add meaning and interest to your message. Your voice should reflect the thoughts you are presenting.
Objectives:
 Use voice volume, pitch, rate, and quality to reflect and add meaning and interest to your message.
 Use pauses to enhance your message.
 Use vocal variety smoothly and naturally.
Time:
5 - 7 minutes
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7. Research Your Topic
Your speech will be more effective if you can support your main points with statistics, testimony, stories, anecdotes, examples, visual aids and facts. You can find this material on the Internet, at a library, and in other places. Use information collected from numerous sources and carefully support points with specific facts, examples and illustrations, rather than with just your own opinions.
Objectives:
 Collect information about your topic from numerous sources.
 Carefully support your points and opinions with specific facts, examples, and illustrations gathered through research.
Time:
5 - 7 minutes
8. Get Comfortable with Visual Aids
Visual aids help an audience understand and remember what they hear; they are a valuable tool for speakers. The most popular visual aid are computer-based visuals, overhead transparencies, flip charts, whiteboards, and props. The type of visual aid you choose depends on several factors, including the information you wish to display and the size of the audience. Visuals must be appropriate for your message and the audience, and be displayed correctly with ease and confidence.
Objectives:
 Select visual aids that are appropriate for your message and the audience.
 Use visual aids correctly with ease and confidence.
Time:
5 - 7 minutes
9. Persuade with Power
The ability to persuade – to get other people to understand, accept, and act upon your ideas – is a valuable skill. Your listeners will be more likely to be persuaded if they perceive you as credible, if you use logic and emotion in your appeal, if you carefully structure your speech and if you appeal to their interests. Avoid using notes because they may cause listeners to doubt your sincerity, knowledge, and conviction.
Objectives:
 Persuade listeners to adopt your viewpoint or ideas or to take some action.
 Appealing to the audience’s interests.
 Use logic and emotion to support your position.
 Avoid using notes.
Time:
5 - 7 minutes
10. Inspire Your Audience
An inspirational speech motivates an audience to improve personally, emotionally, professionally, or spiritually and relies heavily on emotional appeal. It brings the audience
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together in a mood of fellowship and shared desire, builds the audience’s enthusiasm, then proposes a change or plan and appeals to the audience to adopt this change or plan.
This speech will last longer than your previous talks, so make arrangements in advance with your VP Education and meeting Toastmaster for extra time.
Objectives:
 To inspire the audience by appealing to noble motives and challenging the audience to achieve a higher level of beliefs or achievement.
 Appeal to the audience’s needs and emotions, using stories, anecdotes and quotes to add drama.
 Avoid using notes.
Time:
8 - 10 minutes更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net